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The Missing Years eBook Series

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  • Sherlock Holmes Missing Years: Timbuktu

    by Vasudev Murthy ...
    Series Book 2 - The Missing Years
    "This story has great richness of voice and will take you on a fascinating journey. It is both an adventure and a colourful experience." —Calvert Markham, Treasurer of the Sherlock Holmes Society of LondonStill wondering what Sherlock Holmes was doing between his reported death at Reichenbach and his reappearance in The Empty House? Only Dr. Watson knew the truth. From 1891 to 1894, Sherlock ... Read more

    R167,54 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Alaa Al Aswany ...
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  • The Islam Quintet

    Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The Book of Saladin, The Stone Woman, A Sultan in Palermo, and Night of the Golden Butterfly

    by Tariq Ali ...
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    Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London.Celebrated British-Pakistani journalist and author Tariq Ali takes a mind-expanding journey through the ages with these five acclaimed works of fiction, available now in one collection.Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree : "Ali captures the humanity and ... Read more

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  • The Road to Oxiana

    by Robert Byron ...
    In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now ... Read more

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  • The Map of Love

    by Ahdaf Soueif ...
    In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, and Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause.A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif's secret. ... Read more

    R230,22

  • Samarkand

    by Amin Maalouf ...
    A gripping historical novel set in 11th century Persia that imagines the life of poet and philosopher Omar KhayyamAccused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genius, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to ... Read more

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  • Travels with a Tangerine

    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic ... Read more

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  • Gertrude Bell

    Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

    by Georgina Howell ...
    "A scholar and a spy whose extraordinary career spanned the heyday of the British Empire and culminated in the creation of Iraq . . . a gripping read." —Jason Goodwin, The Washington Post Book WorldShe has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, ... Read more

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  • The Letters of Gertrude Bell

    by Gertrude Bell ...
    Gertrude Bell, happily for her family and friends, was one of the people whose lives can be reconstructed from correspondence.Through all her wanderings, whether far or near, she kept in the closest touch with her home, always anxious to share her experiences and impressions with her family, to chronicle for their benefit all that happened to her, important or unimportant: whether a stirring tale ... Read more

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  • Late for Tea at the Deer Palace

    The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

    by Tamara Chalabi ...
    A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family’s tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present.The Chalabis are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Iraq. For centuries they have occupied positions of honour and responsibility, loyally serving first the Ottoman Empire and, later, the national government.In ‘Late for Tea at the Deer Palace’, Tamara Chalabi explores ... Read more

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  • The Days

    His Autobiography in Three Parts

    by Taha Hussein ...
    **Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is difficult to overstate Taha Hussein's contribution to the intellectual renaissance in Egypt during the 20th century."—The Guardian**The monumental three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest ... Read more

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  • The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

    Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography

    Series series Great Egyptian Writers
    A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate. Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and ... Read more

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