Narratives

Muhammad al-MuwaylihiRoger Allen (translation)Paperback, 524 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840915   Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cair...

Hanna DiyabElias Muhanna (translation)Paperback, 468 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820016   The adventures of the man who created Aladdin   The B...

Yusuf al-Shirbini and Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 380 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479829668   Satires of...

Yusuf al-ShirbiniHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 320 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840212   Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt   W...

Kamila ShamsiePaperback, 336 pages9781526647719   Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the un...

Sabaa TahirPaperback, 384 pages9780349125268 Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged mat...

Nadia WassefPaperback, 240 pages9781472156853   The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled bet...

Zoulfa KatouhPaperback, 448 pages9781526648549 New Paperback edition with new short story included   'Hauntingly beautiful ... a must read' - Huda ...

Foreword by Verena Tay Paperback, 128 pages9789811844829   Contributions byKOH Gek Ling EmilyLEE Tzu Pheng AnneLEE Seow SerNG Sok Huang CharleneOON...

Al-HaririMichael Cooperson (translation)Paperback, 542 pages9781479810567   Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award   Fifty rogue’s tales translated f...

Karina Robles BahrinPaperback, 232 pages9789814984676   Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix, her family's billion-ringgit company kno...

Mohamedou Ould SlahiPaperback, 176 pages9780821424384   An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the un...

Kamila ShamsiePaperback, 288 pages9781408886793   Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Khairun Atika KamsanPaperback, 240 pages9789811845574   Anaya Elias is always composed, wise and calm. The compassionate and reliable preschool tea...

WardatulninaPaperback9789811148347   Two primary school friends, Zakaria and Hafeza,  meet again as young teenagers in a madrasah. This is the stor...

Isa KamariPaperback, 112 pages9789815044355   We live in a fragmented world that has caused alienation of our lives in many spheres and at multiple...

Orhan Pamuk Paperback 9780571268832

Leo TolstoyPaperback, 224 pages9781847494818   Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against ...

Alaa Aswany Paperback 9780857862211   Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff atten...

Abolqasem Ferdowsi Dick Davis (translation) Paperback 9780143108320

Suratman Markasan Paperback 9789810735357

Ayisha MalikPaperback, 176 pages9781472284570   Sofia Khan is going about everything the wrong way. At least, that's what her mother, Mehnaz, think...

Homeira Qaderi Paperback, 240 pages 9780008375317   An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppress...

Shereen Malherbe Paperback, 230 pages 9781912356508   A Palestinian reimagining of Jane Eyre   From her rural farmhouse at the bottom of the hillto...

Ibrahim Muhawi, Sharif Kanaana Paperback, 464 pages 9780520385849   By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Mu...

William Shakespeare Paperback, 272 pages 9780199535842   When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his fiancée, Julietta, ...

Herman Melville Paperback, 64 pages 9780974607801

Jane Austen Paperback, 336 pages 9780198793359   'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Pe...

Ralph Ellison Paperback, 608 pages 9780141184425   Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man in...

Euripides Paperback, 128 pages 9780099577386   This stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson (Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlis...

Layla AlAmmar Paperback, 256 pages 9780008346690   A young woman spends her days watching the neighbours through their windows.   She is a refugee,...

Abdulrazak Gurnah Paperback, 272 pages 9781408881309   Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021   For seven-year-old S...

Paul Bowles Paperback, 432 pages 9780141191362   Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home th...

Abdulrazak Gurnah Paperback 9780747557852   Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021   On a late November afternoon Sa...

Heidi Shamsuddin Paperback, 266 pages 9789814954594   Nusantara: A Sea of Tales is the most comprehensive collection of folk tales, fairy tales, my...

Hamid Sulaiman Hardback, 288 pages Graphic Novel 9781911214502   Winner of the 2017 PEN Award   It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since...