Africa: physical features
Mamur Zapt – The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog (Mamur Zapt, Book 2)
A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, in which The Mamur Zapt races to prevent an explosion of religious violence in the Cairo of the 1900s.
Mamur Zapt – The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in Nile (Mamur Zapt, Book 5)
A classic historical mystery from award-winning Michael Pearce, in which the body of a young woman washes up in the Nile and the Mamur Zapt is drawn into the seedy world of Egyptian politics.
Mamur Zapt – The Mamur Zapt and the Camel of Destruction (Mamur Zapt, Book 7)
In this classic mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, a powerful politician is murdered in Cairo in the 1900s and the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate
Desert God
The WORLDWIDE Bestseller.
A novel of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of River God. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time.
The Day of Creation
‘Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact’ William Boyd
Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert
A glittering geographic tour of the remarkable history, peoples, climate, creatures, sights and sounds of the largest and most austere desert on earth.
Whispers in the Sand
Past and present collide on a richly mysterious Nile cruise…
From the bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes this atmospheric and gripping page-turner.
The McAuslan Stories – The Sheikh and the Dustbin (The McAuslan Stories, Book 3)
Private McAuslan was ‘the biggest walking disaster to hit the Army’. Loosely based on his own experiences in a Scottish regiment, and written with rare humour, a sense of the ludicrous and real affection for soldiering, this is the third volume of George MacDonald Fraser’s McAuslan trilogy.