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- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Ancient Egypt BC
Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock, The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A series of individual tales set in modern Egypt, each offering a slightly different view of life in Cairo, as lives overlap in an old colonial apartment block.
- Location(s): Cairo, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
A heartbreaking tale of impossible love in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek’s whole life is laid out for him. A doctor like his father, he has taken over the family medical practice, married his childhood sweetheart and is...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
The time is 1967, just prior to the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, and the setting is Cairo. The characters are an ill-assorted bunch of British ex-pats whose complicated and extended relationships bring comic relief to a...
- Location(s): Ankara, Berlin, Cairo, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
As the daughter of one of Turkey’s last Ottoman pashas, Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara. Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari, the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court...
- Location(s): Egypt, Kuwait, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family’s...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): 1912
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a...
- Location(s): East Africa, Egypt, Italy, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War II and Today
Diana G Armstrong picks up her story as she and her husband continue to live several months of the year in part of a converted monastery in a remote village in Umbria, Italy. It is here that she uncovers...
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1540-1307BC
In this beguiling new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the “heretic pharaoh,” or “sun king,”–and the first known monotheistic ruler–whose...
- Location(s): Alexandria
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th century
Fascinating composite biography of EM Forster, Cavafy, and Lawrence Durrell against the political and social history of the city of Alexandria at its peak moment of splendor- especially appreciated by fans of Durrell’s masterpiece: the Alexandria Quartet.
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