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- Location(s): Dieppe, Egypt, Malta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
No. 111 Squadron prepare to face the murderous skies over Dieppe… Spring, 1942 The Allies and Fighter Command have gone on the offensive. The French town of Dieppe is selected for the first major assault on the European continent....
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Egyptian
The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words – by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Told in the first person – from the...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 69 BC - 30 BC
The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words – by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of The Autobiography of Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Told in the first person – from the...
The Mystery of the Golden Pyramid
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A talking dog. A jewelled casket. A quest for stolen treasure . . . Join Sophie on a magical Egyptian adventure. Lift the flaps and peep through the die-cuts to help her save King Nebra and solve the mystery...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world’s leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river’s mouth to its sources. The result is a...
- Location(s): Upper Egypt
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Will an adventure sailing The River Nile turn the tide for Hattie? Hattie Mulberry is exhausted. Worn out from the demands of everyone around her, she’s long overdue a break. So, she decides to take a holiday – the...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s / 1950s
The Open Door is a landmark of women’s writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl’s coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian...
- Location(s): Egypt, England
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern day
Emily Renzi thinks she’s going crazy. After her parents move to a quiet village, she senses that something is off about the house they’re living in. Dreams of strange creatures invade her sleep, and mysterious shapes appear in the...
- Location(s): Cairo, Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Vibrantly descriptive and evocative of the waning colonial world in Egypt during the mid-20th century, this debut historical novel by Jasmin Attia is the compelling story of a young Egyptian woman, Laila, who defies the restrictive traditional roles set...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Graphic Novel
- Era(s): 1087–85 BC
Also known as “The Pharaoh and the Priest”, Pharaoh is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on...
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