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- Location(s): Africa, Egypt, France, Spain
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller
- Era(s): The Near Future
The hotly-anticipated sequel to Sunday Times Thriller of the Year The Coming Darkness sees the return of special agent Alexandre Lamarque. He may have saved the world from darkness, but he knows his work is not done yet. There’s...
- Location(s): Cairo, Siwa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Early 2000s
The protagonist is Sudanese, living in Cairo and the subtle aspects of life in that part of the world are effortlessly conveyed by the author. It is Cairo, 2002. Makana and Sindbad are instructed by Magdy Ragab to follow her lawyer...
- Location(s): Alexandria, England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s onwards
Memories are fragile when you are seventy years old. I can’t afford to lose any more of them, not when remembering the past might help with the here and now. Nadia needs help. Help getting out of her hospital...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Fifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo. His job? To collect broken glass.His life? Wasted. His hope? To find a future he can believe in . . .
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of the Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub, who, like many “literary” writers, is venturing into the detective genre. The setting is present-day Cairo, where in a broken-down houseboat on the Nile, former police inspector Makana...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century span
In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country’s cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and...
- Location(s): Cairo, Egypt, Giza
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2020s, Various
A prominent young Egyptologist is murdered by a colleague, deep within the bowels of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The authorities are keen to cover it up, but they know they can’t achieve total closure whilst English robotics engineer,...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Harriet Heron’s life is almost over before it has even begun. At just twenty-three years of age, she is an invalid, over-protected and reclusive. Before it is too late, she must escape the fog of Victorian London for a...
- Location(s): Nubia, Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
When Callie Shawcross’s wedding plans fall apart, a friend convinces her that a relaxing break in the sleepy Egyptian town of Fidda Hilal is just what she needs. As she arrives in the former Bedouin fishing village, Callie feels...
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