Fun Spring and Summer Reads

Here are some great reads for this spring and summer…. To read at home, in the garden, on a plane, on the beach, at the pool, at a café…. Anywhere! These novels will take you on a journey to Cairo, Egypt’s Western Desert, Rome, Muscat, Istanbul, Damascus, Algiers, New York….

You will meet sixteen-year old Nadia, indulgent and petulant, Abbas, a ruthless, scheming murderer, Thea, a young Irishwoman chasing her past ghosts, and many other complex and intriguing characters.

A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD

By Elizabeth Loudon
Hoopoe, 2023
“‘A Stranger in Baghdad’ is vivid and fascinating.”
—Lissa Evans, author of Crooked Heart

Elizabeth Loudon

I DO NOT SLEEP

By Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Translated by Jonathan Smolin
Hoopoe, 2021
“[One] of the best new works from around the world”
—The Irish Times

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous

THE LADY OF ZAMALEK

By Ashraf El-Ashmawi
Translated by Peter Daniel
Hoopoe, 2021
“The Lady of Zamalek hits all the sweet spots that a Western reader of historical fiction craves.”
—Washington Independent Review of Books

Ashraf El-Ashmawi

OF SEA AND SAND

By Denyse Woods
Hoopoe, 2018
“Of Sea and Sand carries the reader around the world in a strange tale of Irish faeries and Arabia jinn.”
—West Cork People magazine

Denyse Woods

A RECIPE FOR DAPHNE

By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Hoopoe, 2021
“[T]o be thoroughly savored . . . A Recipe for Daphne proves deeply satisfying.”— Vanessa Larson, The Washington Post