Blogs in October 2024

Beirut Station 30th October 2024

A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk. Lebanon, 2006....

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The Golden Hour 23rd October 2024

From Cairo 1939 on the eve of the war and then thirty years later to 1970s Beirut on the eve of yet another conflict, The Golden Hour is an epic dual timeline story which interweaves glory-seeking desert archaeologists, priceless...

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Mister N 14th June 2022

Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel – he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile,...

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Guard of the Dead 3rd May 2020

Abir scrapes a living in a Beirut hospital morgue by night, stealing from both the bodies he tends and his bosses. But he has a dark history that continues to haunt him. Earlier in the civil war, he fled...

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The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine 26th February 2020

It’s bustling 1960s Beirut, and our young protagonist spends his days in his father and uncle’s bakery, admiring the female customers, observing the many colourful characters, and listening in on fascinating grown-up conversations about everything from jaundice to the...

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