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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 22 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
    Enter Ghost - by Isabella Hammad

    £9.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781529919998 | ISBN 10: 1529919991

    **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**  **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024**  Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.  ‘A vital ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ceremony of Innocence by Madeleine Bunting
    Ceremony of Innocence - by Madeleine Bunting

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787500 | ISBN 10: 1783787503

    A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family”s history in the Gulf has put her in danger. The trail leads back to Tehran in 1969, when diplomat Martin Wilcox Smith, fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drift by Caryl Lewis
    Drift - by Caryl Lewis

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857527875 | ISBN 10: 0857527878

    THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM TWO-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA.  Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
    Daughters of Smoke and Fire - by Ava Homa

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781419746604 | ISBN 10: 141974660x

    The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman's perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer.  Set primarily in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel weaves 50 yea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (Editor)
    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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  • Cover image of book Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik
    Song of a Captive Bird - by Jasmin Darznik

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780399182334 | ISBN 10: 0399182330

    LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER   A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society’s expectations to find her voice and her destiny.  All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Hid My Voice by Parinoush Saniee
    I Hid My Voice - by Parinoush Saniee

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408707500 | ISBN 10: 1408707500

    A sweet and touching novel which can be read both as a coming of age story, set against a fascinating backdrop, and at a deeper level as a commentary on life in country where there is very little freedom of expression. This is the story, based on ... more

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  • Cover image of book Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion by Hassan Blasim (Editor)
    Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion - by Hassan Blasim (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583669 | ISBN 10: 1905583664

    Featuring Anoud, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Zhraa Alhaboby, Ali Bader, Hassan Blasim, Mortada Gzar, Jalal Hasan, Diaa Jubaili & Khalid Kaki   Iraq + 100 poses a question to ten Iraqi writers: what might your country look like in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breaking Knees: Sixty-Three Very Short Stories from Syria by Zakaria Tamer
    Breaking Knees: Sixty-Three Very Short Stories from Syria - by Zakaria Tamer

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781902932453 | ISBN 10: 1902932455

    Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamers stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the sto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas De Lange
    Scenes from Village Life - by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas De Lange

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099541363 | ISBN 10: 009954136x

    A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house.   A ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
    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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  • Cover image of book Sarmada by Fadi Azzam
    Sarmada - by Fadi Azzam

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906697341 | ISBN 10: 1906697345

    Three women struggle against the forces of society, family, and passion in a small Druze village in the south of Syria as the country itself struggles against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, and then the Baath.   The v ... more

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  • Cover image of book To the End of the Land by David Grossman
    To the End of the Land - by David Grossman

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546740 | ISBN 10: 0099546744

    From one of the world's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life the greatest human drama and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofers release from Isra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Can the Gods Cry? by Allan Cameron
    Can the Gods Cry? - by Allan Cameron

    £11.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781908251008 | ISBN 10: 190825100x

    With one exception, these short stories were written for this collection, and they tentatively look at different themes such as compassion, passivity and their opposites, which are not, of course, original themes, as none exist. The stories are told ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes, translated by Michelle Hartman
    Wild Mulberries - by Iman Humaydan Younes, translated by Michelle Hartman

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697273 | ISBN 10: 1906697272

    Shortlisted for the Banipal Translation Prize 2009.   Sarah is on the brink of adulthood in her village in the mountains of Lebanon in the 1930's, a world itself hesitating on the verge of change. Her father the shaykh is uninterested in an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
    The Age of Orphans - by Laleh Khadivi

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408802533 | ISBN 10: 1408802538

    A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand a ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Good Land by Nada Awar Jarrar
    A Good Land - by Nada Awar Jarrar

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007221981 | ISBN 10: 0007221983

    The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever- changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. But three people were almost always there.The older Polish woman, Margo, refugee from her past, her country and family after anot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader by Edited by Ronal Husni and Daniel L. Newman
    Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader - by Edited by Ronal Husni and Daniel L. Newman

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863564369 | ISBN 10: 0863564364

    Twelve stories by Contemporary Masters from Morocco to Iraq.  The stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already well-known in the West, such as Idwar al ... more

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  • Cover image of book Qissat; Short Stories by Palestinian Women by Jo Glanville (Ed)
    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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  • Cover image of book A House at the Edge of Tears by Venus Khoury-Ghata
    A House at the Edge of Tears - by Venus Khoury-Ghata

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781555974343 | ISBN 10: 1555974341

    The thought of killing him never crossed my mind. I want to bury him alive. Your threats, your son's moans, our sobs, have been transformed by time into shame, a shame as penetrating as the rain that soaked the four faces fixed on your slightest move ... more

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  • Cover image of book Adama by Turki al-Hamad
    Adama - by Turki al-Hamad

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780863563119 | ISBN 10: 0863563112

    Turki al-Hamad's explosive novel Adama Became an unlikely bestseller in the Middle East, selling more than 20,000 copies despite being officially banned in several countries, including the author's native Saudi Arabia. A compelling coming-of-age stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Belt by Ahmed Abodehman
    The Belt - by Ahmed Abodehman

    £7.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780863563072 | ISBN 10: 0863563074

    Ahmed grows up in a small Saudi village steeped in the family ties, legends, poetry and songs of traditional tribal culture. As he becomes a man, the cataclysmic changes of modernity spring up around him. Islam is imposing itself more and more strong ... more

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