Literary Arts

Valerie WinterHardback, 86 pages9781872038308   This is the dramatic story of Valerie and David Denison, two English schoolchildren evacuated to So...

Peter Avery, John Heath-Stubbs (translation)Paperback, 98 pages9781901383133 Very little is known about the life of Hafiz, except that he was born ...

Paul Yunus PringlePaperback, 164 pages9781872038292   Pringle's autobiography offers a graphic and often painful account of his experiences with ma...

Mahmoud DarwishPaperback, 224 pages9780520273030   Mahmoud Darwish is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important ...

Mahmoud DarwishPaperback, 224 pages9780520273047   One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shellin...

Hisham MatarPaperback, 416 pages9780241409497   One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud o...

Lauren BoothPaperback, 285 pages9781739384111   This compelling memoir, authored by the multi-talented Lauren Booth, presents a unique blend of bri...

Ibrahim NasrallahNancy Roberts (translation)Paperback, 560 pages9789774166662   A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine   In eighteenth-century Palestine...

Roald DahlPaperback, 224 pages9780241955796   In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Afr...

Raph Cormack (editor)Paperback, 160 pages9781910974254   A corrupt police officer trawls the streets of Cairo on the most important assignment of h...

Fereshteh Ahmadi (editor)Paperback, 208 pages9781910974247   A city of stories - short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory - Tehran ...

Amal AwadPaperback, 336 pages9780063317673   Coming from a moderately traditional Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has endure...

Ahmed TaibaouiPaperback, 126 pages9781649032140   Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature   A novel in which a man in Algiers disappears ...

Suad AmiryPaperback, 304 pages9780593466940   Based on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, Mother of Strangers follows the daily lives of Subhi,...

Ibrahim Nasrallah Paperback 9789774168444

Isabella HammadPaperback, 336 pages9781529919998   After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress ...

Hisham BustaniMaia Tabet (Translator)Paperback, 178 pages9781951853082   The stories within Jordanian author Hisham Bustani's The Monotonous Chaos ...

Jamila AhmedPaperback, 432 pages9781399805988   For a thousand and one nights Shaherazade told stories. This is hers.   The Seljuk Empire is on fir...

Adania ShibliPaperback, 144 pages9781913097172   Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn ...

S.K. AliPaperback, 352 pages9781665916080  "I read it in two days WITH a newborn. This book has it all and S.K. Ali is so good at building these ch...

Hwang Bo-reumShanna Tan (Translator)Paperback, 320 pages9781526662286   There was only one thing on her mind.   I must start a bookshop.   Yeongju ...

Ahmet Mithat EfendiMelih Levi, Monica M. Ringer (translation)Paperback, 198 pages9780815610649   "Ahmet Midhat, among other things, invented the Ea...

James ChaiPaperback, 288 pages9789815127133   A Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds   Ordinary is not as ordinary as you think. Hist...

Samir NaqqashSadak Masliyah (translation)Paperback, 400 pages9780815611080   A multilayered novel following the intimate lives of Jewish and Muslim...