Blogs in April 2023

Style and the Solitary: A Jerusalem Murder Mystery 4th April 2023

An unexpected murder. A suspect with a motive. The power of unwavering belief. A murder has been committed in an office in Jerusalem. Asaf, who works there, is the suspect. But is the case as clear-cut as it seems?...

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Three Floors Up 13th March 2023

Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity...

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Drifts 14th February 2023

Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family lived for more than half a century. Through various departures and returns – a year at boarding school in New England, university in London, a small...

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A Stranger In Baghdad 6th February 2023

In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this intergenerational drama set against a background of political tension and intrigue “Who would be charmed by tales of life in the...

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Syrian Sunset 20th January 2023

A sweeping novel of international intrigue about the Syrian Civil War, the failure of the West to save the Syrian people, and how that inaction against the Russian incursion in Syria emboldened Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine In 2012,...

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