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- Location(s): Afghanistan, Russia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Agent 6, the third and final outing for the conflicted former MGB officer, brings the trilogy of novels to a resounding climax. Leo’s new civilian life with his wife Raisa and his family has acquired equilibrium, but the USSR...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul’s streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been...
- Location(s): Helmand
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
Set in Helmand during the current conflict, Bishop’s novel is a compelling variant on the theme of soldiers trapped in enemy territory and striving to get home. the narrator is a British officer involved in the ambush of a...
Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Kabul
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything....
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Europe, India
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th Century
Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years later, she set out to achieve her ambition. Her epic journey began during the coldest winter in memory, taking her through Europe, Persia, Afghanistan,...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
This is a picture book told through the eyes of the grandmother. How a once flourishing city, the soldiers have come and now there is fear and little in the way of stimulus. Her grand-daughter, Nasreen, has to stay...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set in Afghanistan, British-born Miriam finds her marriage to her Afghan doctor husband heading towards crisis. She has to journey into her past to understand how unresolved issues are damaging her relationship. It is a story of commitment and...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Bristol
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
With her bestseller, Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep, Siba Shakib drew attention to the distressing situation of Afghan women. Taking up this theme again, she now tells a wonderful story of love and courage, and of a...
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