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- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1979 t0 1989
Earth and Ashes is a story of such spareness and power it leaves the reader reeling. Set during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, it is a fable about war, family, home and tradition. An old man and his grandson...
Farewell to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2021
Kabul, August 2021 Sunny Tedder is back in her beloved coffee shop. After eight years away, she’s thrilled to reunite with her Kabul ‘family’: Yazmina now runs a pair of women’s shelters from the old cafe, and dreams of...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
The battered body of an Afghan boy is found at the base of a cliff outside a remote village in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Did he fall as most of the villagers think? Or is this the work of American...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
For a Pagan Song tells the story of how Jonny Bealby follows in the footsteps of his two heroes from literature, Kipling and Dravot, travelling across remote parts of India and Pakistan and into war-torn Afghanistan. Picturing himself seated...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
Aziz and his older brother Ali live in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Their family is poor, but inside their mud-walled home, the family has stability, love, and routine. But when a...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, India, Northumberland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
Abandoned as a baby and raised in a remote lighthouse off the wild Northumberland coast, Alice Fairchild has always dreamed of adventure. When a fierce storm wrecks a ship nearby, she risks everything in an act of bravery that...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women’s rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Her husband is killed by the Taliban, now Rukhsaar is a widow with a ten-year-old child, Masih, in a land where the colour drains from faces when they hear, “It’s a girl.” Reminiscing about her past, Rukhsaar and her...
- Location(s): Russia, Afghanistan, Africa
- Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Adventure
- Era(s): 21st century
He looks like an angel but kills like a devil. In war-ravaged Chechnya in 2000, six-year-old Maxym’s life is shattered when his parents are brutally murdered by Islamic militants and his sister is subjected to a horrific assault. Orphaned,...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
In August 2021, as the Taliban approached the gates of Kabul, twenty-one women writers in Afghanistan came online in their WhatsApp chat group: they asked what news others had heard and if everyone was safe. These women had been...
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