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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Ceremony of Innocence by Madeleine Bunting
    Ceremony of Innocence - by Madeleine Bunting

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787500 | ISBN 10: 1783787503

    A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family”s history in the Gulf has put her in danger. The trail leads back to Tehran in 1969, when diplomat Martin Wilcox Smith, fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night: Volume 1 by Ana Lily Amirpour, illustrated by Michael DeWeese
    A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night: Volume 1 - by Ana Lily Amirpour, illustrated by Michael DeWeese

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781732299269 | ISBN 10: 1732299269

    Written by the director of the film of the same name rated 96% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a bastion of depravity and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
    Daughters of Smoke and Fire - by Ava Homa

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781419746604 | ISBN 10: 141974660x

    The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman's perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer.  Set primarily in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel weaves 50 yea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
    The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree - by Shokoofeh Azar

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787703100 | ISBN 10: 178770310x

    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020* *LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020*  A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead.  Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Isl ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories by Golnoosh Nour
    The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories - by Golnoosh Nour

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916129283 | ISBN 10: 1916129285

    Set mostly in Iran, but making forays to London, Germany, and the transit area of a Ukrainian airport, the stories are brilliantly deft in summoning up the dilemmas of their protagonists, be they characters who are kicking against the confines of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Tehran: A City in Short Fiction by Fereshteh Ahmadi (Editor)
    The Book of Tehran: A City in Short Fiction - by Fereshteh Ahmadi (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974247 | ISBN 10: 1910974242

    Featuring Atoosa Afshin-Navid, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Kourosh Asadi, Azardokht Bahrami, Hamed Habibi, Mohammad Hosseini, Amir-Hossein Khorshidfar, Payam Nasser, Goli Taraghi & Mohammad Tolouei   Foreword by Orkideh Behrouzan.  A city of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik
    Song of a Captive Bird - by Jasmin Darznik

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780399182334 | ISBN 10: 0399182330

    LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER   A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society’s expectations to find her voice and her destiny.  All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blind Owl and Other Stories by Sadeq Hedayat
    The Blind Owl and Other Stories - by Sadeq Hedayat

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780714544588 | ISBN 10: 0714544582

    Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story – an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader’s subconscious. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani
    Children of the Jacaranda Tree - by Sahar Delijani

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780224619 | ISBN 10: 1780224613

    Iran. Amidst one country's tragedy, three mothers are united by love.  Includes reading group notes.  Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin prison. Yet even within its wall ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things We Left Unsaid by Zoya Pirzad
    Things We Left Unsaid - by Zoya Pirzad

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689675 | ISBN 10: 1851689672

    Deep in an Iranian suburb, made rich by the booming oil industry, Clarice Ayvazian lives a comfortable life surrounded by the gentle bickering of her children and her gossiping friends and relatives. Happy being at the heart of her family, she devote ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi
    The Age of Orphans - by Laleh Khadivi

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408802533 | ISBN 10: 1408802538

    A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand a ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Father
    My Father's Notebook - by Kader Abdolah

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781841959276 | ISBN 10: 1841959278

    Ishmael is a man separated from his history. As a young man he was driven out of his home, exiled from all he loved most by the tumultuous revolution that overwhelmed his country. Years later, thousands of miles away, his father dies. His legacy is a ... more

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