In Dr Mira Harrison’s first work of fiction, eight women share their experiences of life in a public hospital. These linked tales of doctors, nurses, cooks and cleaners working at the heart of clinical medicine are also intimate confessions...
In Katy Yocom’s award-winning debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, two families—one human, one tiger—follow parallel journeys in which the powerful drives to connect, love, and raise the next generation play out against the fact of loss and the...
Said leads a comfortable, yet boring, middle-class life. That is, until one afternoon, he leaves work early and crosses into the rough side of town, in search of a run-down boxing club. His obsession with this underground sport grows:...
Palestinian-Armenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England. Over half a century later, her daughter Julie has been tasked with her dying wish: to take her ashes...
Tales of Yusuf Tadrus is set in the Egyptian Delta town of Tanta, and tells the story of a young Coptic artist from a humble background. It provides an intimate glimpse into Egyptian Christian life, and carefully tells of...
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