Blogs in January 1970

Girls of Riyadh 1st January 1970

Gamrah’s faith in her new husband is not exactly returned … Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiancé … Michelle is half-American and the wrong class for her boyfriend’s family … While Lamees works hard with...

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Burqalicious 1st January 1970

This is the real Dubai? Delve under the opulent layers of the sparkling city and see what lies beneath. A true story of sun, sand, sex and secrecy. For a sassy young woman used to blagging, blogging and slogging...

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Land of Marvels 1st January 1970

This novel from Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth, takes place in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World. Virtually every European country is in Iraq, waiting for the weakened Ottoman Empire to...

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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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Secret of the Sands 1st January 1970

Melding historical detail with sympathetic characterisation. It is 1833 and William Wilberforce has brought about the abolition of slavery in the British Empire: elsewhere others are less fortunate. Zena, a beautiful and headstrong young Abyssinian girl, is captured by...

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