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- Location(s): Morocco, Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress’s art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out – until she falls passionately in love...
- Location(s): Marrakech
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
One last chance to become who we were supposed to be… The trip was supposed to be the perfect holiday. Six friends, reuniting after two decades, spending the weekend in a beautiful riad in Marrakesh. Only, these friends are...
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
- Location(s): Marrakech
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of that place:...
This Blinding Absence of Light
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1971
In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim...
Valley Of The Casbahs: A Journey Across the Moroccan Sahara
- Location(s): Sahara, Morocco
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): contemporary
The four-hundred-and-fifty-mile long Draa River Valley in the Moroccan Sahara contains some of the most sumptuous oases and searing desert of the Arab world, starting in the moonscape gorges of the Anti Atlas Mountains through to a green sea...
- Location(s): Barbados, Canada, London, Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Historical
When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black – an eleven year-old field slave – finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde is a...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Morocco, 1968. The air is electric. Anything feels possible, and Mathilde is determined to celebrate it. Doesn’t she have the right to enjoy life, after dedicating her best years to the war and then to this farm? Looking out...
When Every Road Whispers My Name
- Location(s): United States (USA), England, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Spain
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000-2021
One middle-aged woman with no money, three suitcases, a big dream, and a desire to see it all, sets out to live her best solo life. Calling on memories from her teen years when she lived in Rome, Italy,...
- Location(s): Tangier
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
I want that gun, even if it’s in a fish’s stomach. When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet in the chest, Detective Laafrit knows this isn t just another illegal immigrant who...
- Location(s): Morocco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The novella and eight short stories that constitute “Year of the Elephant” – an allusion to a battle described in the Qur’an – serve as an eloquent representation of life in the wake of Morocco’s successful struggle for independence...
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