The Book of Cairo (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment of his career: to find the ultimate Truth… A woman confesses her love to a reclusive, masked man in a video rental shop… A disgraced doctor confronts...
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1970s
The narrator of this novel is a rather charming lizard. He lives on Felix Ventura’s living-room wall, Felix, the lizard’s friend and hero of the story, is a man who sells pasts – if you don’t like yours, he...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1546
Longlisted for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlisted in the 2024 HWA Crown Awards ANNO DOMINI 1546. In a manor house in England a young woman feels the walls are closing around her, while her dying...
The Book of Dhaka (Reading The City)
- Location(s): Dhaka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world – noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums – but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Warm, wise, and magical–the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on...
- Location(s): Lagos, Brixton
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
A sweeping, uplifting and inspirational story of how a boy from Brixton and a girl from Lagos reinvent their lives in modern-day London. 1981: England looks forward to a new decade. But on the streets of Brixton, it’s hard...
The Book of Everlasting Things
- Location(s): Lahore
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): mid 20th century
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family’s ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer’s apprentice and calligrapher’s apprentice fall...
The Book of Gaza (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Gaza
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Under the Israeli occupation of the ’70s and ’80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled...
The Book of Havana (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into...
- Location(s): Iona
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 9th Century
A brilliant Scottish debut, shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and the Bookmark Book Festival Book of the Year. The year is 825 CE. In the aftermath of a vicious attack by raiders from the north, an unlikely trio...
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