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- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain’s occupation of Egypt immediately after World War...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2011
“We’ve been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing . This time will be different. This time the future can still be made new.” This is a revolution. On the streets...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This novel, in the magical realism genre, brings together the mythololly of the ancient Pharoas, 1001 Nights, religion, corruption, gangsters, drugs and much much more.
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
No.5 in the Makana crime mystery series More trouble on the streets of Cairo in a gripping new investigation for ‘one of crime fiction’s most interesting and sympathetic detectives’ (The Times) A severed head washes up on the banks...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Early 2000s
It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the heat is rising… The unsolved murders of young homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred.As tensions mount, Makana – who fled his home in Sudan...
- Location(s): Cairo, Siwa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Early 2000s
The protagonist is Sudanese, living in Cairo and the subtle aspects of life in that part of the world are effortlessly conveyed by the author. It is Cairo, 2002. Makana and Sindbad are instructed by Magdy Ragab to follow her lawyer...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Fifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo. His job? To collect broken glass.His life? Wasted. His hope? To find a future he can believe in . . .
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of the Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub, who, like many “literary” writers, is venturing into the detective genre. The setting is present-day Cairo, where in a broken-down houseboat on the Nile, former police inspector Makana...
- Location(s): Cairo, Egypt, Giza
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2020s, Various
A prominent young Egyptologist is murdered by a colleague, deep within the bowels of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The authorities are keen to cover it up, but they know they can’t achieve total closure whilst English robotics engineer,...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1099CE
Egypt 1099 CE, Qahira (Cairo) Samuel, a Jewish doctor versed in alchemy, and Gregory, his English apprentice, are investigating a terrifying plague. The Nile has turned red with blood and fish are dying. Near a small island, they wrangle...
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