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- Location(s): Afghanistan, Helmand
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
May 2011, Afghanistan: Camp Bastion is under attack, the Sun’s Defence Editor is about to catch the wrong helicopter, and a famous TV war reporter is missing half his kit and wants his trainers back. Amid the chaos, Christian...
- Location(s): Hindu Kush, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Border Policeman Ishmael Khan has spent his life in the stunning mountains of the Hindu Kush. His current mission is to find out what is happening to the foreign backpackers disappearing in the area. Raseem Hasni dreams of wealth,...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Iraq, World
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Two men who hate each other are committed to working together on a job far more dangerous than they knew when they signed up. These men are surveillance experts, lying in a mosquito-infested Iranian marsh for days, part of...
- Location(s): Kandahar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
You’ve had no sleep since the firefight last night. The morning fog beyond the walls of your base lifts to reveal a lone woman approaching the gate. She says she has come to claim the body of her brother...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of three people whose paths cross. Amy is an aid worker,who arrives in Afghanistan. She has few illusions about the difficulties she might have to face on a personal level, and struggles to implement the...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2005
‘Me and Gul and Zia and Dawoud out on the roads of Logar, together, for the first time, hoping to get Budabash back home before nightfall.’ It is 2005 in Logar, Afghanistan, and twelve-year-old Marwand has returned from America...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Anthology, Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back over 2,500 years
In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad. Partly thanks to the relentless media coverage of the “War on Terror”, it has become synonymous above all with war and...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th Century
First published in 1963, James A. Michener s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th century
An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity? Your family? In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2003
A murdered man. A stolen artefact. A search for justice in a city where violence and corruption rule… 2003. Kabul has become a frontier city, Afghanistan’s fledgling democracy struggling with crime and corruption as NATO coalition troops, gangs and...
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