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- Location(s): Egypt, France, Tibet
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Various
A Secret Worth Dying For… Jac L’Etoile has always been haunted by visions of the past, her earliest memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up with as the heir to a storied French perfume company. These...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At one interrogation, he encounters Mustafa Ismail: a university professor turned master thief, who breaks into the homes of the great and the good and then blackmails them into silence.Mustafa has dedicated his existence to the perfection of his...
- Location(s): Egypt, Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
Drawn by a fascination with Egypt’s rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo’s neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
Among the bustling markets of eighteenth century Cairo, the city’s outcasts eke out a living swindling rich Ottoman nobles and foreign invaders alike. But alongside this new world the old stories linger. Tales of djinn and spirits. Of cities...
- Location(s): Luxor, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s / 1970s
An unforgettable discovery In 1922, Lady Evelyn Herbert’s dreams are realised when she is the first to set foot inside the lost tomb of Tutankhamun for over 3,000 years. A cursed life But the months after the discovery are...
- Location(s): Chartres, Cairo, Marseilles (Marseille), Sicily
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Thirteenth Century CE
Gui is a troubled priest who has been shielding his secret family for years. Agnes, his beloved, is a falsely-accused heretic he rescued from the Inquisition’s pyre. Their son Etienne, unaware of his father’s true identity, is coming of...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Egypt, France, The Sudan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
A lifetime ago, Fakhreddin had been an idealistic young lawyer, seeking to fight corruption from his modest quarter of Cairo. Then, a botched attempt on his life forced him to flee the country, propelling him on a wild journey...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Napoleonic and contemporary
Art historian, Yasmine, is restoring an unsigned portrait of a strikingly beautiful girl from the Napoleonic Era, when she discovers that the artist has embedded a lock of hair into the painting, something highly unusual. The mysterious painting came...
- Location(s): Beirut, Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 / 1970s
From Cairo 1939 on the eve of the war and then thirty years later to 1970s Beirut on the eve of yet another conflict, The Golden Hour is an epic dual timeline story which interweaves glory-seeking desert archaeologists, priceless...
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