Text in Arabic. Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel set in Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is accused of workin...

Text in Arabic. 1948: The lives of the Abulheja family are changed forever when they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and ...

Georgios Vizyenos (1849-1896) is one of Greece's best-loved writers. Moskov Selim is set in Thrace, a corner of Europe where Greece, Turkey and Bul...

Text in Arabic. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican wh...

Text in Arabic. A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles -– in an uncanny an...

"A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny and terrifying way...

It's the early part of the nineteenth century and the Arabian Peninsula and the waters surrounding it are ablaze. Piracy in the Gulf threatens glob...

A man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Café Sport by two agents of the Regime -- though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, an...

Text in Arabic. Afghanistan in the 1970s: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend Hassan pro...

A wealthy count on his deathbed, his libertine nephew, an upstanding young clerk, and a scheming notary who stops at nothing to protect his daughte...

Georgios Vizyenos (1849-1896) is one of Greece's best-loved writers. His stories, written in 1883-4, are set in his native Thrace, a corner of Euro...

Text in Arabic. Lucrecia, a young, poor and illiterate girl in sixteenth-century Madrid, living in the court of Filipe II, has terrible visions ann...