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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
    The Country of Others - by Leila Slimani

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571361632 | ISBN 10: 0571361633

    1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman.  Her life is now that of a farmer's wife - with all the sacrifices and vexations that bri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Boat from Tangier by James von Leyden
    Last Boat from Tangier - by James von Leyden

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472130662 | ISBN 10: 1472130669

    Death stalks the streets of Tangier...  When Detective Karim Belkacem's best friend and colleague, Abdou, goes missing during an investigation into an illegal cartel, Karim is sent to Tangier to look for him. But the Tangier police have another p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dune Song by Anissa M Bouziane
    Dune Song - by Anissa M Bouziane

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912240357 | ISBN 10: 1912240351

    Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Prix Littéraire Sofitel Tour Blanche   'I came to the Sahara to be buried.'   After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Beautiful White Cat Walks With Me by Youssef Fadel, translated by Alexander E. Elinson
    A Beautiful White Cat Walks With Me - by Youssef Fadel, translated by Alexander E. Elinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789774167768 | ISBN 10: 9774167767

    A modern Moroccan tale of power, love, and loss.  Hassan makes a living in his native Marrakesh as a comic writer and performer, through his satirical sketches critical of Morocco’s rulers. Yet when he is suddenly conscripted into a losing ... more

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  • Cover image of book About My Mother by Tahar Ben Jelloun
    About My Mother - by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592010 | ISBN 10: 1846592011

    Since she’s been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory.   Lalla Fatma thinks she’s in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Secret Son by Laila Lalami
    Secret Son - by Laila Lalami

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141042732 | ISBN 10: 0141042737

    When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...  Casablanca’s stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun
    A Palace in the Old Village - by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906413750 | ISBN 10: 1906413754

    The international bestseller: From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (Guardian), a novel about the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family.  Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approac ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Final Bet by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
    The Final Bet - by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906697068 | ISBN 10: 190669706x

    Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Blinding Absence of Light. by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)
    This Blinding Absence of Light. - by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141022826 | ISBN 10: 0141022825

    In 1971 disaffected student Salim took part in a failed coup to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others he was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccon desert; they were to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly elo ... more

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