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From Madrid to Heaven

From Madrid to Heaven
  • Author(s): Leslie Croxford
  • Location(s): Lisbon, Madrid, Tangier
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

In these stories Madrid is the apex of a triangle stretching to Lisbon and Tangier. Characters meet the unexpected in a borderland between Europe and Africa, from the fall of dictators to a surge in trans-Mediterranean migration. An Arab...

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...

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
  • Author(s): Laila Lalami
  • Location(s): Morocco, Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in...

I’ll Take The Fire

I’ll Take The Fire
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Casablanca, Morocco, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political ‘truths’ that envelop their lives....

Jake Atlas and the Keys of the Apocalypse

Jake Atlas and the Keys of the Apocalypse
  • Author(s): Rob Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): Rome, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

JAKE ATLAS: TOMB ROBBER, TREASURE HUNTER, TROUBLEMAKER This fourth riveting Jake Atlas adventure takes Jake and his family to Rome, where they uncover the secret history of a Roman legion sworn to protect four mysterious keys. The keys hold...

Let It Come Down

Let It Come Down
  • Author(s): Paul Bowles
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre...

Lies and Weddings

Lies and Weddings
  • Author(s): Kevin Chen
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, England, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister’s...

Marrakech Noir

Marrakech Noir
  • Author(s): Yassin Adnan (editor)
  • Location(s): Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

This unique anthology of crime fiction features 15 original stories of “scandals, smugglers, and other sordid tales” by award-winning Moroccan authors (CrimeReads). At first glance, Marrakech may seem like an odd setting for noir fiction. Contemporary Moroccans call it...

Mission to Morocco

Mission to Morocco
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Casablanca, Kenitra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1944

An OSS officer is dispatched on a secret mission to French Morocco to dismantle a Nazi network reporting on the U.S. Navy’s Africa Squadron.

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