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Enter Ghost - by Isabella Hammad

£9.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781529919998 | ISBN 10: 1529919991

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024** Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. ‘A vital ... more
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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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The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction - by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (Editor)

£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912697427 | ISBN 10: 1912697424

Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Anas Abu Rahma, Liana Badr, Ahlam Bsharat, Ameer Hamad, Khaled Hourani, Ahmad Jaber, Ziad Khadash, Ibrahim Nasrallah & Mahmoud Shukair A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, u ... more
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God 99 - by Hassan Blasim

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781905583775 | ISBN 10: 190558377x

Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous storytellers... The characters in Hassan Blasim’s debut novel are not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real ... more
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An Unsafe Haven - by Nada Awar Jarrar

£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008165048 | ISBN 10: 0008165041

Nada Awar Jarrar paints an intimate portrait of modern-day Beirut where everyone has a story to tell... Journalist Hannah is deeply rooted in the city of her birth, reporting first-hand on growing unrest in the region. Her American husband Pet ... more
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Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion - by Hassan Blasim (Editor)

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583669 | ISBN 10: 1905583664

Featuring Anoud, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Zhraa Alhaboby, Ali Bader, Hassan Blasim, Mortada Gzar, Jalal Hasan, Diaa Jubaili & Khalid Kaki Iraq + 100 poses a question to ten Iraqi writers: what might your country look like in t ... more
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War - by Janne Teller

£9.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471161476 | ISBN 10: 1471161471

Endorsed by Amnesty International. Imagine if war broke out – not in Iraq or Afghanistan, somewhere far far away, but here, in our country. In War, Janne Teller embarks on a thought-provoking experiment: by simply turning the current cris ... more
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An Unnecessary Woman - by Rabih Alameddine

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119209 | ISBN 10: 1472119207

Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller The Hakawati with an enchanting story of the life of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old, blue-haired 'unnecessary woman', living in Beirut. This is a novel to savour. Aaliya Sal ... more
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The Lady from Tel Aviv - by Raba'i al-Madhoun

£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846590917 | ISBN 10: 1846590914

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010 � Winner of the English Pen Award� In the economy class of a plane, the lives of two passengers intersect: Walid Dahman, a Palestinian writer, is returning to his family in Gaza for t ... more
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Scenes from Village Life - by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas De Lange

£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099541363 | ISBN 10: 009954136x

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. A ... more
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The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist - by Emile Habiby, translated by Salma K Jayyusi and Trevor Le Gassick

£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697266 | ISBN 10: 1906697264

Purposefully imitating Voltaire's classic Candide, another dark comedy which derives its humour from life's tragedies, Habiby's The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist is a classic of Arab literature. Saeed's, a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of ... more
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Rhyming Life and Death - by Amoz Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange

£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099521020 | ISBN 10: 0099521024

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive wa ... more
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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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Adama - by Turki al-Hamad

£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780863563119 | ISBN 10: 0863563112

Turki al-Hamad's explosive novel Adama Became an unlikely bestseller in the Middle East, selling more than 20,000 copies despite being officially banned in several countries, including the author's native Saudi Arabia. A compelling coming-of-age stor ... more
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