A Winding Path to Umbria 7th January 2017
Diana G Armstrong picks up her story as she and her husband continue to live several months of the year in part of a converted monastery in a remote village in Umbria, Italy. It is here that she uncovers...
Blogs in January 2017
City of Jackals 6th November 2016
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...
In The Eye of the Sun 26th October 2016
This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about what its like to be a women (East and West), a story about the history of the post-imperial Middle East during the last 30 years or...
Out of Egypt 6th August 2016
Set in luxuriant cosmopolitan Alexandria, this richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family from its bold arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and...
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World 6th August 2016
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on...
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