Blogs in February 2019

Dido’s Crown 16th February 2019

Set in Tunisia and France in 1935, Dido’s Crown is a taut historical thriller influenced by Indiana Jones, The Thin Man, and John le Carré. Mary Wilson MacPherson has always been adept at putting the past behind her: her...

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A Tunisian Tale 19th June 2018

After ne’er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother’s weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a...

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The African Quest 19th June 2018

It looked like an ordinary group of tourists – a mix of easy-going and critical, quiet and talkative, enthusiastic and bored. But antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is leading this tour through the souks, mosques and ruins of Tunisia so...

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Daughter, Disappeared 16th April 2018

Love, death, culture clash, escape 1994: Jane has no idea of the horrors in store when she plunges into a new life in North Africa with her recently discovered sister, Crystal. When she falls in love with Ali, she...

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The Tremor of Forgery 1st January 1970

Howard Ingham finds it strange that no one has written to him since he arrived in Tunisia – neither the film director that he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York who is,...

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