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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
  • Author(s): Lucette Lagnado
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, Cairo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on...

The Man of Feeling

The Man of Feeling
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion, The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along...

The Man of My Life

The Man of My Life
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a visit to Argentina, Spain’s most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in his beloved Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of 21st century Catalonia. When the son of a rich...

The Man who Collected Women

The Man who Collected Women
  • Author(s): Nigel Barley
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

The eccentric Mr Hare – as he was known to Sophia, the first wife of Singapore founder Thomas Stamford Raffles – and his Asian harem are brought vividly to life in this work of historical fiction set in Southeast...

The Man Who Died Twice

The Man Who Died Twice
  • Author(s): Richard Osman
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

It’s the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent...

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
  • Author(s): Tom Spanbauer
  • Location(s): Idaho
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): turn 19th / 20th centuries

Set against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon provides a vision of the Old West unlike anything seen before. The narrator, Shed, is one of the most...

The Man Who Loved Women

The Man Who Loved Women
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

It’s a different kind of Christmas for Tom Shepherd when he meets Ellie and embarks upon an affair. He is lead into the world of fiction where he learns to write and hopes to form a new career path....

The Man Who Plundered the City

The Man Who Plundered the City
  • Author(s): Sven Elvestad
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): early 1900s

When a series of audacious thefts take place in the city of Christiania (current-day Oslo), Detective Asbjørn Krag must deal with a master criminal who has his measure – or does he? From the dark brickyards on the city’s...

The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
  • Author(s): Omer Friedlander
  • Location(s): Israel, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of ‘holy’ air to credulous tourists. In a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales. Ahead of a school ‘Show and...

The Man Who Spoke Snakish

The Man Who Spoke Snakish
  • Author(s): Andrus Kivirähk
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Suspense
  • Era(s): Medieval

Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they’re bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with...

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