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The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder

The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder
  • Author(s): C L Miller
  • 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...

The Night Manager

The Night Manager
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • 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...

The Yacoubian Building

The Yacoubian Building
  • Author(s): Alaa al Aswany
  • 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.

What I Know About You

What I Know About You
  • Author(s): Eric Chacour, Pablo Strauss (Translator)
  • 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...

Loose Connections

Loose Connections
  • Author(s): John Haylock
  • 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...

Last Train to Istanbul

Last Train to Istanbul
  • Author(s): Ayse Kulin
  • 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...

A Master of Djinn

A Master of Djinn
  • Author(s): P. Djèlí Clark
  • 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...

Cairo Circles

Cairo Circles
  • Author(s): Doma Mahmoud
  • 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...

Cairo Swan Song

Cairo Swan Song
  • Author(s): Mekkawi Said
  • 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

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
  • Author(s): Nadia Wassef
  • 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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