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- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 2000BC
Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the...
- Location(s): Buenos Aires, Egypt
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything...
- Location(s): Egypt, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s
It’s 1932 and 27-year-old Jessica is living London life to the full when her younger brother Tim, an ancient Egyptian archaeology expert, goes missing. Teaming up with Sir Montague Chamford – who can resist neither a damsel in distress...
- Location(s): Alexandria, India
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of EM Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India....
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1099CE
Egypt 1099 CE, Qahira (Cairo) Samuel, a Jewish doctor versed in alchemy, and Gregory, his English apprentice, are investigating a terrifying plague. The Nile has turned red with blood and fish are dying. Near a small island, they wrangle...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a “dream” tour of Egypt when things take a nightmarish turn: One of their fellow travelers, Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off one of the Pyramids....
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Egyptian Places: An Illustrated Travelogue, presents an architect’s account of visits to 12 of Ancient Egypt’s most spectacular sites, a journey that transports the reader from the urban metropolis of Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza to the...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 2000BC
Taita is a the brilliant eunuch slave who narrates the story. The main plot is the love between Lostris, the wife of the Pharoah of Egypt, and Tanus, a commander of an army of Pharoah and a trusted friend...
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...
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