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The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction - by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (Editor)

£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912697427 | ISBN 10: 1912697424

Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Anas Abu Rahma, Liana Badr, Ahlam Bsharat, Ameer Hamad, Khaled Hourani, Ahmad Jaber, Ziad Khadash, Ibrahim Nasrallah & Mahmoud Shukair A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, u ... more
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The Beauty of Your Face - by Sahar Mustafah

£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781789559736 | ISBN 10: 1789559731

Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter―radicalized by the online alt-right―attacks the school. As Afaf listens ... more
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Palestine +100: Stories From a Century After the Nakba - by Basma Ghalayini (Editor)

£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974445 | ISBN 10: 1910974447

STORIES FROM A CENTURY AFTER THE NAKBA Palestine +100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How mi ... more
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Fractured Destinies - by Rabai Al-Madhoun

£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9789774168628 | ISBN 10: 9774168623

Palestinian-Armenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England. Over half a century later, her daughter Julie has been tasked with her dying wish: to take her ashes back to their old ... more
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Time of White Horses - by Ibrahim Nasrallah, translated by Nancy Roberts

£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789774167577 | ISBN 10: 9774167570

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction � Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948.& ... more
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Haifa Fragments - by Khulud Khamis

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262598 | ISBN 10: 1780262590

Jewellery designer, Maisoon, wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn�t easy for a tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors ... more
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The Land Agent - by J. David Simons

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908643964 | ISBN 10: 190864396x

Set in 1902s Palestine, this compelling novel by the author of bestseller An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful tells a haunting tale of love and finding a home in the world. Palestine, 1920s. Working as an agent for one of the riches ... more
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The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction - by Atef Abu Saif (Editor)

£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781905583645 | ISBN 10: 1905583648

Featuring Atef Abu Saif, Abdallah Tayeh, Talal Abu Shawish, Mona Abu Sharekh, Najlaa Ataallah, Ghareeb Asqalani, Nayrouz Qarmout, Yusra al Khatib, Asmaa al Ghul & Zaki al 'Ela � Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had ... more
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The Lady from Tel Aviv - by Raba'i al-Madhoun

£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846590917 | ISBN 10: 1846590914

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010 � Winner of the English Pen Award� In the economy class of a plane, the lives of two passengers intersect: Walid Dahman, a Palestinian writer, is returning to his family in Gaza for t ... more
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The Almond Tree - by Michelle Cohen Corasanti

£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781859643297 | ISBN 10: 1859643299

Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village, Ichmad Hamid struggles with the knowledge that he can do nothing to save his friends and family. Living on occupied land, his entire village operates in constant fear of losing t ... more
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Spectres - by Radwa Ashour

£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697259 | ISBN 10: 1906697256

Spectres tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born on the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their days at work, their married and unmarried lives, and the two books they are writing, both called Spectres. ... more
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The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist - by Emile Habiby, translated by Salma K Jayyusi and Trevor Le Gassick

£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697266 | ISBN 10: 1906697264

Purposefully imitating Voltaire's classic Candide, another dark comedy which derives its humour from life's tragedies, Habiby's The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist is a classic of Arab literature. Saeed's, a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of ... more
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The Olive Grove - by Deborah Rohan

£11.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566677 | ISBN 10: 0863566677

The Moghrabis have lived in Palestine for centuries. Near the end of the First World War, Ottoman soldier Kamel Moghrabi is imprisoned by his Turkish masters. Reunited with his family after being freed by British soldiers, he marries his childhood sw ... more
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Let It Be Morning - by Sayed Kashua

£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843545439 | ISBN 10: 1843545438

A young journalist, recently married and with a new baby, is seeking a quieter life away from the city and has bought a large house in his parent's hometown, an Arab village in Israel. Nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people pet ... more
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Qissat; Short Stories by Palestinian Women - by Jo Glanville (Ed)

£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846590122 | ISBN 10: 1846590124

These fascinating and diverse stories reflect the everyday concerns of Palestinians living under occupation. Writers who were children during the first intifada appear alongside those who remember the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war. They offer co ... more
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Wild Thorns - by Sahar Khalifeh

£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565373 | ISBN 10: 0863565379

A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement. His mission is to blow up buses transporting Palestinian workers to Israel. Shocked to discover that many of his fellow citizens have adjusted t ... more
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