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Tangier Love Story

Tangier Love Story
  • Author(s): Carol Ardman
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Novella

Carol Ardman traveled to Tangier in 1970 to tend her broken heart and—she hoped—find Jane Bowles, whose writing had literally saved her. Instead she found Paul Bowles at a time when he was as lonely and searching as she...

Tea at the Grand Tazi

Tea at the Grand Tazi
  • Author(s): Alexandra Singer
  • Location(s): Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Runner up of the Luke Bitmead Bursary Maia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working as an assistant to a once famous Historian, she is...

The Boy Who Stole Time

The Boy Who Stole Time
  • Author(s): Mark Bowsher
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When 12-year-old Krish finds out his mum is dying, he is desperate to give her more time to live. This leads to a deal with a devil-like creature to travel to another realm, Ilir, and collect the Myrthali –...

The Butcher of Casablanca

The Butcher of Casablanca
  • Author(s): Abdelilah Hamdouchi
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to identify his victims. Fear spreads throughout the city as...

The Caliph’s House

The Caliph’s House
  • Author(s): Tahir Shah
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah – in his 30s, married, with two small children – was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life. Flying in the face of friends’ advice, he longed to fulfil his dream...

The Death of Murat Idrissi

The Death of Murat Idrissi
  • Author(s): Tommy Wieringa
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not...

The Exchange

The Exchange
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, Marrakech, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Exchange is John Grisham’s epic follow-up to his phenomenal global bestseller The Firm, the novel that launched his career as the world’s favourite storyteller – it will take you on a rollercoaster journey across the globe, from New...

The Hustle

The Hustle
  • Author(s): Jori Sams
  • Location(s): North Africa, Morocco, Sahara
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chris and Hue Childs find themselves caught up in a frenzied race to keep up with a succession of dubious guides and chauffeurs leading them on a frantic trail from the Rif Mountains and Chefchaouen to Fes, the Sahara,...

The Last Friend

The Last Friend
  • Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Last Friend, the new novel from internationally acclaimed author Tahar Ben Jelloun, winner of the 2004 International Dublin/IMPAC award, is a Rashamon-like tale of friendship and betrayal set in twentieth century Tangier. Written in Ben Jelloun’s inimitable and...

The Last Resort: A Mystery

The Last Resort: A Mystery
  • Author(s): Carmen Posadas
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Jaime Valdés, high society lothario, has seemingly choked to death in the presence of both his mistress and his wife, but all of Spain is atwitter with the possibility of murder. Coincidentally, when he arrives at the spa, Molinet...

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