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The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder
- Location(s): Cairo, Suffolk
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
Freya, it’s down to you to finish what I started. . . Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques...
- Location(s): Cairo, The Bahamas
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): 20th Century
At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities – about an international businessman at the hotel with...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A series of individual tales set in modern Egypt, each offering a slightly different view of life in Cairo, as lives overlap in an old colonial apartment block.
- Location(s): Cairo, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek’s whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The time is 1967, just prior to the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, and the setting is Cairo. The characters are an ill-assorted bunch of British ex-pats whose complicated and extended relationships bring comic relief to a...
- Location(s): Ankara, Berlin, Cairo, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1912
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a...
- Location(s): Cairo, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sherif “Sheero” Abdallah is an NYU student reveling in independence, free from the judgmental gaze of his conservative family in Egypt to indulge in all sorts of pleasures. When the FBI comes knocking on his door, he’s convinced it’s...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000
In the shadows of great wealth, and among Cairo’s famous monuments, runs a world of street children. Mustafa, a former student radical who never really believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story through a documentary he...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 2000s
‘A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going’ Harvard Review In 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to...
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