The Coffeehouse


by Naguib Mahfouz

Now available in the UK! A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate

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Price: £13.60

Spectres


by Radwa Ashour

'It is a compelling performance.' - TLS, December 2010 'A stimulating read...it raises difficult questions' - Al Ahram Weekly 'While laying bare the corruption and class divisions in Arab society, Ashour stresses the unity of the causes that really matter to people.'- The Jordan Times

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Price: £6.40

The Calligrapher's Secret


by Rafik Schami

From the author of The Dark Side of Love comes Rafik Schami's latest novel The Calligrapher's Secret, also translated by Anthea Bell OBE. Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weakness in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes of radical reform...

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Wild Mulberries


by Iman Humaydan Younes

Set in 1930's Lebanon, Wild Mulberries is the poignant coming-of-age tale of Sarah, a girl on the brink of adulthood, sharing her life with the spectre of her absent mother.

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The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist


by Emile Habiby

Named as one of the top ten novels set in the Arab World by The Guardian, 2010. A novel that imitates the classic tale of optimism, Candide's Voltaire.

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Price: £6.41