Narratives

Hala AlyanPaperback, 320 pages9780099510932   'A piercingly elegant novel… with the power to both break and mend your heart.' Ru Freeman   Where do...

Nooruddean ChoudryPaperback, 320 pages9780008522261   Manchester. Birthplace of industry, the Stone Roses, the Class of 92 and, in 1979, a small br...

Ibn ButlanPaperback, 250 pages9781479827480   A witty satire of the medical profession   The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in...

Marmaduke Pickthall Paperback 9781902350103

Jalal BarjasPaperback, 328 pages9781623718206   After losing his job and house, a bookseller live with the homeless in his city and assumes the ide...

Ghassan KanafaniPaperback, 160 pages9781623717247   All That's Left to You presents the vivid story of twenty-four hours in the real and remembered...

Rafik SchamiPaperback, 208 pages9781623717124   Experience a wonderfully complex world of characters and cultures as you explore modern Damascus wi...

Priscilla MorrisPaperback, 288 pages9780715654613   Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023   Sarajevo, Spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs e...

Suhaiymah Manzoor-KhanPaperback, 192 pages9781914221224   And Even Stranger Possibilities   Reflections on seeing and being seen.   Why do we yearn...

Mohamed ChoukriJonas Elbousty (translation)Paperback, 264 pages9780300251357   The complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Chou...

Shubnum KhanPaperback, 320 pages9780861548286   In an old wardrobe a djinn sits weeping. It whimpers and murmurs small words of complaint. It sucks...

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

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

Hisham MatarHardback, 416 pages9780812994841   One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on...

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 ...

Hala AlyanPaperback, 336 pages9781328915856   Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award   Lyrical and heartbreakin...

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 HammadPaperback9781787334076   After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir...

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

Jamila AhmedPaperback9781399805971   For a thousand and one nights Shaherazade told stories. This is hers.   The Seljuk Empire is on fire and the k...

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 pages9781526662262   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...