Blogs in October 2024

The Peacock and the Sparrow 13th October 2024

WINNER OF THE 2024 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2024 BARRY BEST FIRST MYSTERY OR CRIME NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE 2024 MACAVITY...

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Drifts 14th February 2023

Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family lived for more than half a century. Through various departures and returns – a year at boarding school in New England, university in London, a small...

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Ceremony of Innocence 16th August 2021

A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family’s history in the Gulf has put her in danger. The trail leads back to Tehran in 1969,...

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Between Love and Hate 13th October 2020

Short stories that spread around the world and told from the viewpoints of everyday people.

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A Winter in the Middle of Two Seas: Real Stories from Bahrain 26th January 2020

A Winter in the Middle of Two Seas: Real Stories from Bahrain was written during and after the author’s four-month stay in the Middle Eastern island kingdom of Bahrain. With a photographer’s eye, a journalist’s nose for news and...

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