Narratives

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

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...

Mona Hajjar HalabyPaperback, 288 pages9781909770645   1948, Jerusalem. Zakia is forced to flee the only home she's ever known as war rips through t...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Abdulrazak GurnahPaperback, 288 pages9781526615893   While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troo...

Radwa AshourWilliam Granara (translation)Hardback, 230 pages9780815607656   A powerful novel of life in the mixed culture that existed in Southern ...

Alaa Al AswanyPaperback9780307947345   Cairo, 2011. After decades under a repressive regime, tensions are rising in the city streets. No one is out...

Hannah MatusPaperback, 200 pages9781597849463   Caught in a struggle to navigate the often-conflicting demands of faith, career, and relationships,...

Emile HabibyPaperback, 234 pages9781906697266   Purposefully imitating Voltaire's classic Candide, another dark comedy which derives its humour fro...

Mariam AnsarPaperback, 336 pages9780241522073   When three teens are landed with a community service order after an incident involving a spray can ...

Uzma JalaluddinPaperback, 320 pages9780593336380   Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and pare...