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The Lioness of Morocco

The Lioness of Morocco
  • Author(s): Julia Drosten
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Independent-minded Sibylla Spencer feels trapped in nineteenth-century London, where her strong will and progressive views have rendered her unmarriageable. Still single at twenty-three, she is treated like a child and feels stifled in her controlling father’s house. When Benjamin...

The Moroccan Girl

The Moroccan Girl
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Also titled The Man Between Renowned author Kit Carradine is approached by an MI6 officer with a seemingly straightforward assignment: to track down a mysterious woman hiding somewhere in the exotic, perilous city of Marrakesh. But when Carradine learns the...

The Sand Child

The Sand Child
  • Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father’s effort to thwart the...

The Serpent’s Daughter

The Serpent’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Suzanne Arruda
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Joining her mother for a holiday in the ancient port city of Tangier, American adventuress Jade del Cameron expects their trip will be far less dangerous than her safaris in East Africa. But soon after their introduction to a...

The Ship of Shadows

The Ship of Shadows
  • Author(s): Maria Kuzniar
  • Location(s): Seville, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Middle Ages

The sweeping, sparkling first book in a brand new series that will delight fans of The Polar Bear Explorer’s Club and The Girl of Ink and Stars. “A feast for the imagination . . . an enthralling adventure.” –...

The Spider’s House

The Spider’s House
  • Author(s): Paul Bowles
  • Location(s): Fez
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1954

Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of...

The Storyteller of Casablanca

The Storyteller of Casablanca
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Casablanca
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s and 2000s

In this evocative tale from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift, a strange new city offers a young girl hope. Can it also offer a lost soul a second chance? Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi...

The Sultan’s Wife

The Sultan’s Wife
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

A sweeping historical adventure, set in 17th-century Morocco, from the bestselling author of Court of Lions. Morocco, 1677 The tyrannical King Ismail resides over the palace of Meknes. Through the sweltering heat of the palace streets, Nus Nus, slave...

The Surf House

The Surf House
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Marrakech, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

High on the cliffs of Morocco, far from the city lights and the souks, stands The Surf House: a sanctuary for travellers chasing sunshine and waves. But the idyll hides a dark mystery. And when Bea washes in, seeking...

The Tenth Gift

The Tenth Gift
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Morocco, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century and 2000s

Jane Johnson’s The Tenth Gift is an wonderfully escapist page-turner set in seventeenth century Cornwall and Morocco,based on spine-tinglingly shocking historical fact, with a romantic hidden love story at its heart. His parting gift to her was a new...

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