ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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Middle Eastern history

For the Sun After Long Nights cover

For the Sun After Long Nights

2 authors - Hardback

£22.00

My Great Arab Melancholy cover

My Great Arab Melancholy

Lamia Ziadé - Paperback

£24.99

Men in the Sun cover

Men in the Sun

Ghassan Kanafani - Paperback

£11.99

The Finest Hotel in Kabul cover

The Finest Hotel in Kabul

Lyse Doucet - Hardback

£25.00

Night of Power cover

Night of Power

Robert Fisk - Paperback

£14.99

Cleopatra cover

Cleopatra

Francine Prose - Hardback

£18.99

Cleopatra cover

Cleopatra

Alberto Angela - Paperback

£12.99

Complicit cover

Complicit

Peter Oborne - Paperback

£11.99