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- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty...
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
Adam is awestruck from the moment he steps off the plane, finding himself at the centre of a fairytale world of wealth and excess, cowboys and crooks, and hookahs and hookers. But as he delves deeper under the deceptive...
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The new novel from Joseph O’Neill, his first since the Man Booker longlisted and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning ‘Netherland’. In 2007, a New York attorney bumps into an old college buddy –...
- Location(s): United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
For most people, being a single mother to three boys (two of them teenagers), sorting out your feelings for an ex-boyfriend who’s now an international film star, pacifying an elderly father who keeps asking why you’re not married, tolerating...
- Location(s): Dubai, Italy, London, Marrakech
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): MOdern
Boundless wealth hides the deepest secrets . . . When a charismatic billionaire asks Ben Webster to investigate his personal affairs it isn’t long before the private spy is convinced that there is something very wrong with his new...
- Location(s): Dubai, India, South East Asia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Osborne travels from Dubai, to Calcutta, on to the Andamans, Bangkok, Bali and finally Papua New Guineau. An opinionated and insightful view of these wonderful places with a bit of history thrown in.
- Location(s): United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Modern and Various
This is a compelling and bewitching first novel, perfect for book groups, that mixes old world magic with modern adventure. Welcome to the Empty Quarter, the domain of Djinn, ghouls, demons and the effrit who take the shapes of...
Dubai, 1 City 2 Different Tales
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
You will instantly be taken to the other side of the world because this book offers an extraordinary glimpse into unjust, cruelty and suffering in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. These factual short story collections allow you to witness the...
- Location(s): Rome, Dubai, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing....
- Location(s): Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Seventeen-year-old Noora is not like the other women of the sun-battered mountains of the Arabian Peninsula in the 1950s. She shares their poverty and uncomplaining existence, but carries a fiery independence. With the death of her mother, her father...