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A Rare Blue Bird Flies With Me

A Rare Blue Bird Flies With Me
  • Author(s): Youssef Fadel
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s and 1990s

A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me

A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me
  • Author(s): Youssef Fadel
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, to seek his fortune elsewhere. They fall in love, but trouble brews...

Bled Dry

Bled Dry
  • Author(s): Abdelilah Hamdouchi
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When a prostitute and her ill-fated lover are killed in a gruesome double murder, seasoned investigator Detective Hanash is called in. The case draws him into Casablanca’s slums, blighted by criminality, religious extremism, and despair. Hanash’s years on the...

Chergui’s Child

Chergui’s Child
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Morocco, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Olivia is recovering from a traumatic event five years earlier when her beloved aunt Dorothy dies, leaving her a large sum of money and a letter containing a startling revelation. From Morocco to London to the south of France,...

Disappeared

Disappeared
  • Author(s): Bonnar Spring
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2005

Julie Welch’s sister, Fay, disappears from their hotel in Morocco. Although she leaves a note that she’ll be back in two days, Fay doesn’t return. Julie’s fears intensify when an attack meant for her kills another woman. Julie guesses...

Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood

Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood
  • Author(s): Fatima Mernissi
  • Location(s): Fez
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940

“I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco…” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass , Mernissi weaves...

Enchantment in Morocco

Enchantment in Morocco
  • Author(s): Madeleine McDonald
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emily Ryan is maxed-out on her credit cards and stranded in Morocco. Rafi Hassan expects others to obey him without question. When he offers Emily a financial lifeline she wishes he would offer her more. On top of the...

For Bread Alone

For Bread Alone
  • Author(s): Mohamed Choukri
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1952

Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed’s family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed’s siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed...

Hideous Kinky

Hideous Kinky
  • Author(s): Esther Freud
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s

Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment: her children,...

History of Ash

History of Ash
  • Author(s): Khadija Marouazi, Alexander E Elinson (translator)
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Lead Years of the 1970s and 1980s

An unforgettable and eviscerating novel of human frailty, brutality, and resistance as told through the first-person prison narratives of a man and a woman History of Ash is a fictional prison account narrated by Mouline and Leila, who have...

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