Blogs in April 2020

A Girl Like That 10th April 2020

Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject...

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Girl of the Book 9th April 2020

Twelve year old Courtney Parker is devastated to have to leave her friends and South Africa behind when her father accepts a lucrative contract and the family relocate to Saudi Arabia. Jeddah feels like a different planet to Johannesburg....

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Throwing Sparks 7th April 2020

When an opulent palace is built on the Jeddah waterfront near his poverty-stricken neighbourhood, ambitious Tariq sees a way out of his life of petty crime. He stares longingly at the huge gates, dreaming of the luxuries beyond. But...

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The Night of the Mi’raj 1st January 1970

Zoë Ferraris has picked a telling setting for her debut novel. Her sleuth is Nayir, a desert guide, who is employed to find the missing daughter of a rich Saudi family, only to find her murdered. (The Independent)

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Kingdom of Strangers 1st January 1970

Ibrahim Al-Brehm is a respectable husband a police inspector on Jeddah’s murder squad. But for the past year, he has been having an affair with a woman named Maria. One day though, she disappears. Terrified and with nowhere else...

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