North Africa

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of...

The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the...

Trapped in an arranged marriage to a man she does not love, Nehal dreams of attending the Weaving Academy. There, she can take control of her powers, bending any water...

For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...

A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him An incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins A haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violence In All Men Want to Know the author traces her...

From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are — deep down — and what we actually want. Her obsessions...

Translated by Lara Vergnaud *Winner of the Prix Eugène Dabit* Lullaby meets Little Fires Everywhere, this intense, suspenseful prize-winning novel explores the darker side of human nature — and the...

Translated by Sam Taylor Watch us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place...

A Philosophy of Violence Translated from the French by Kieran Aarons. A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher Is violent self-defense ethical?...

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our WorldTechnology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT? THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with...

Translated by Natasha Lehrer A coming of age tale and twisted love story, set amid the beaches, streets and mansions of Nineties Casablanca. Sarah might be poor, but at least...

From the prize winning and bestselling author of Lullaby and Adele: a fascinating and witty collection of essays on the lives of women grappling with sexual politics in a deeply...

* Winner of the American Book Award* Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015* A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction * A new edition of a masterful,...

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house...

THE BUNKER IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE.In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal. Wolfe...

The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj,...

At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad flees a massacre that takes her entire family. At fifteen, she buries her first body. At twenty, the clock is ticking on...

The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt — a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity and motherhood. The baby is dead. It took...