Gold Dust

A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya
by Ibrahim al-Koni

Winner of the 2008 Zayed Creativity AwardRunner-up of the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2009.... Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Eligible for free UK delivery.

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Memory in the Flesh


by Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Available now! 'MEMORY IN THE FLESH' is the first novel written by an Algerian Woman in Arabic and centres on Algeria's struggle against foregin domination, capturing four decades of the nation's tumultuous history.

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Love in Exile

A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt
by Bahaa Taher

Unwilling to recant his Nasserist beliefs, the unnamed narrator is an Egyptian journalist in self-imposed exile in Europe after conflict with the management of his newspaper and a divorce from his wife. Absorbed in introspection over his impotent position at the paper and in ill health, he suddenly finds himself faced with two issues he cannot ignore: the escalating tensions in Israeli-occupied Lebanon and, more personally, an unexpected love affair with a much younger Austrian woman, Brigitte.

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The Loved Ones


by Alia Mamdouh

The Loved Ones is the story of Suhailia, who lies in a coma in a Paris hospital, and is kept alive by those who flock to her from all over the world to envelope her in the warmth of their friendship.

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Being Abbas el Abd

A Modern Arabic Novel from Egypt
by Ahmed Alaidy

“What is madness?” asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy’s new novel, Being Abbas el Abd. Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on his subsequent itinerary through the insanity of present-day Cairo

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