This is an anthology of stories, personal observations and historic legends. It reflects the author’s fascination with Africa’s people and their history as well as her identification with individuals and their conflicting emotions.

Tales of Yusuf Tadrus is set in the Egyptian Delta town of Tanta, and tells the story of a young Coptic artist from a humble background. It provides an intimate glimpse into Egyptian Christian life, and carefully tells of...

After an eventful start to his first ever teaching post in the sleepy village of Risingdale, Tom Dwyer is hoping for a bit of calm. Nursing a broken heart after a romantic disappointment, he just wants to keep his...

Siamak Herawi brings Afghan women centerstage and takes us deep into the heart of his motherland to witness the reality of their lives under the Taliban’s most extreme interpretation of Islam. Based on true stories, the result is a...

A young boy finds a body on a deserted Scottish beach. DS West searches for absconded DI Munro to help track down the killer. Left to her own devices Detective Sergeant Charlie West struggles with the responsibility of a...

Talismano is a novelistic exploration of writing seen as a hallucinatory journey through half-remembered, half-imagined cities—in particular, the city of Tunis, both as it is now, and as it once was. Walking and writing, journey and journal, mirror one...

An uplifting black comedy of love, family life and friendship, Talk of the Toun is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set in the summer of 1985, in working class, central belt Scotland.   Lifelong friends Angela and Lorraine are two...

Hazel, a Canadian Ph.D candidate in Avignon, agrees to marry a top hand model, though she feels little passion for him. She is over 35 and feels her best chances at true love are behind her…until she meets a...

A young prostitute lies dead in a Cardiff squat. Her six-year-old lies dead beside her. It looks like an ordinary murder scene . . . except that a millionaire’s platinum bank card lies among the debris. How did it...

Notting Hill Meets Monarch of the Glen Fliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it her dream...