While Nora waits for the couscous her father is cooking to be finished, he tells her a story about his youth in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Renowned author Kit Carradine is approached by an MI6 officer with a seemingly straightforward assignment: to track down a mysterious woman hiding somewhere in the exotic, perilous city of Marrakesh. But when Carradine learns the woman is a dangerous fugitive with ties to international terrorism, the glamour of being a spy is soon tainted by fear and betrayal. Lara Bartok is a leading figure in Resurrection, a violent revolutionary movement whose...

"Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job the assistant to the brilliant, enigmatic novelist known as Maud Dixon - whose true identity is a secret - it appears that the universe is finally providing Florence's big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be prickly, but she is full of pointed...

The story of American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II. Although the couple apear to be smart, independent travelers, they are not equipped to travel into the desert.Thus, each time hardship strikes, pieces of their comfortable lives and the identities they had constructed seem to peel away. The shifting sands and unforgiving sun are metaphors for the shocking and vulgar circumstances that befall them.

When Isobel's estranged archaeologist father dies and leaves her a box with some papers and a mysterious African amulet, she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover its significance. When the amulet is damaged and Isobel's almost killed in an accident, she fears her curiosity has got the better of her. But Taib, her rescuer knows the dunes and their peoples, and offers to help her. Across the years and over hot shifting sands tracking the Salt Road,...

After being robbed of her wallet and passport while on a mysterious trip to Morocco, a woman feels a strange freedom of being stripped of her identity and soon begins pretending to be a well-known film star.

"The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the Country of Others"--

"Éste es un libro escrito sobre la piel, como un tatuaje ritual del deseo. En nueve capítulos de nueve fragmentos cada uno, escuchamos leyendas sobre el origen de Mogador dentro de nuestra piel, sobre la conducta peculiar de la luz y el tiempo entre sus murallas, sobre los métodos que allá usan para cantar sus historias, sobre la severa dictadura de la piel, el sabor de las palabras, las bibliotecas sorpresivas y la música elemental del cuerpo....

La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona el Madrid agitado de los meses previos al alzamiento arrastrada por el amor desbocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Con él se instala en Tánger, una ciudad exótica y vibrante donde todo puede suceder. Incluso la traición. Sola, desubicada y cargada de deudas ajenas, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, capital del Protectorado Español en Marruecos. Gracias a la ayuda de nuevas amistades forjará una nueva...