Blogs in November 2023

The House of the Coptic Woman 11th November 2023

Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Hoda shows up at his lodgings. She is on...

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What The River Knows 11th September 2023

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything...

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The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder 14th July 2023

Freya, it’s down to you to finish what I started. . . Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques...

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Diary of a Country Prosecutor 17th June 2023

Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan? Was it a crime of passion? What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl called Rim? Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems? First published in 1937, Tawfik al-Hakim’s partly...

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Alexandria City of Memory 21st April 2023

Fascinating composite biography of EM Forster, Cavafy, and Lawrence Durrell against the political and social history of the city of Alexandria at its peak moment of splendor- especially appreciated by fans of Durrell’s masterpiece: the Alexandria Quartet.

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