https://www.philipbrebner.com/books daily 0.75 2024-05-21 https://www.philipbrebner.com/books/shadows-of-marrakech monthly 0.5 2023-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/648f4c770f860359c2e1f37c/204f1d52-40d0-44f1-b868-131cafb527ee/Shadows+of+Marrakech_FINAL_1800x2400_HI.jpg Books - Shadows of Marrakech - Synopsis The first novel in the Ramzi Murder Mystery series. A murdered guest from Ramzi’s Marrakech B&B is triggered by a series of tragic events. Up for a challenge, can Ramzi find the formula to separate deceit from the truth? Running a bed and breakfast in Riad Waqi, an old courtyard house in exotic Marrakech, is not the escape it seems for Ramzi, a disillusioned Scottish scientist. He cannot decide who are more exasperating, staff or guests, especially when one of the clients, a young Frenchman Paul Gallisot, is murdered in the city. Up for a challenge, Ramzi turns detective and makes his own investigations into the killing, at a time when Morocco prepares for the festival of Eid and the ritual slaughter of sheep in the nation’s homes. https://www.philipbrebner.com/books/shadows-of-essaouira monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/648f4c770f860359c2e1f37c/7d4a828c-31b9-491b-a722-db4c6e36ae04/Untitled+design-3.png Books - Shadows of Essaouira - Synopsis The second novel in the Ramzi Murder Mystery series. A man dies on the annual hillula to venerate a mystical Rabbi. Ramzi and Dr. Rashida uncover dark and far reaching tales linked to Essaouira’s Jewish past. Escaping drama at Riad Waqi and the broiling heat of a Marrakech summer, Ramzi travels to the coastal town of Essaouira, a secretive and windblown place, adorned with mysterious signs and symbols. Booking into a guest house he is intrigued to find the other guests are Jewish pilgrims who have travelled for the annual hillula, to venerate the mystical saint, the tzaddik, Rabbi Haim Pinto. When one of the party dies after a ceremonial feast, Ramzi delves into the death. It is food poisoning or murder? As he struggles for answers he enlists his friend, the unconventional medical doctor Rashida—who has come to windsurf. Joining forces, they uncover dark and far-reaching tales linked to Essaouira’s Jewish past. https://www.philipbrebner.com/books/shadows-of-meknes monthly 0.5 2024-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/648f4c770f860359c2e1f37c/336d5ed2-aa26-45f7-9846-7f6ac7ad568f/Untitled+design-3.png Books - Shadows of Meknes - Synopsis An irresistible follow up to the Shadows series finds Ramzi and Dr Rashida in Meknès tasting disputes over a vineyard and decanting the facts of an unexpected death. Hearing Rashida is visiting relatives in Meknès, Ramzi escapes Marrakech to join her, taking up an invite to stay with the Jeandels at their vineyard nearby. Instead of a tranquil setting, a hit and run, inconsistencies in the way the owner died, family disputes over producing a premium vintage partnered with an American wine critic or selling land entangled by tribal claims, end in another death. Was it just one more accident—or one more murder? Against the backdrop of the imperial city of Meknes, Ramzi and Rashida try to decant the truth, but a further mystery is afoot—why is Ramzi's housekeeper Latifa on strike and acting bizarrely? https://www.philipbrebner.com/books/a-country-of-vanished-dreams monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/648f4c770f860359c2e1f37c/371fdacf-9df6-4a30-8bf8-7271f880c1c9/Untitled+design-3.png Books - A Country of Vanished Dreams - Synopsis In this acclaimed novel, can Rahwun, the story-teller in a market square, escape arrest as weaves together the tragedies and disappointments of Algeria into a critique of Independence? ‘Sad is the day when the children of our revolution become our enemies.’ 1987. Algeria is on the brink of civil war. In the market square in El Oued, a political fugitive Muhammad Madani poses as Rahwun, the storyteller. With tales that roar back and forth through time, he narrates the history of that magical and formidable country, fables of intrigue and of strife, of children sold and of women forsaken, of families uprooted and of families emigrating to France, of disillusionment and disappointment, of wars and war. Drawn by Madani’s wit, wisdom and compassion, his listeners return week after week to piece together the ragged fragments that make a mysterious, sinister and subversive whole. But Madani is unaware his chronicles of Algeria past and present are being recorded by an undercover policeman—or is he? https://www.philipbrebner.com/books/the-fabulous-road monthly 0.5 2023-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/648f4c770f860359c2e1f37c/bffd2c79-293c-4111-b1cb-b16ce5252077/Untitled+design-3.jpg Books - The Fabulous Road - Synopsis Winner of the K Blundell Trust Award The Cook. The Dervish. The Geographer. The Artist. The Jongleur. The Scholar. The Historian. A group of men are imprisoned by their Sultan and await death; they are to be executed for petty crimes. They all have one regret—not to have done the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then, hey presto! A talking parrot, centuries old, flies into their cell and rebukes them, suggesting they undertake the overland pilgrimage in their minds. So the prisoners imagine the journey, storytellers weaving art, geography, history, cuisine, literature, philosophy, Sufism, anecdote and comedy, to travel a fabulous road across the breathtaking and punishing landscapes of North Africa. 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The only survivor, he is raised as an English orphan at a school for destitute boys by the eccentric Dr Hatropp. As a Fleet Street journalist, dispatched to Berlin in the Golden Twenties, Peter interviews luminaries such as Einstein and Brecht, and is drawn to two women, Frankie, an unconventional reporter from America and Anneliese, a German widow. Invited to cover the the Graf Zeppelin’s luxury passenger flights to Cairo, an accident leaves him convalescing in Egypt. On his return, he finds a different and frightening Germany. https://www.philipbrebner.com/books/fado monthly 0.5 2023-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/648f4c770f860359c2e1f37c/8c4c796c-24d6-4527-92b1-8afcb1f8777c/Untitled+design-4.png Books - Fado - Synopsis 'Fado', a word meaning fate or destiny, refers to a type of music that embodies the Portuguese spirit of yearning. The two instruments accompanying the Fado singer are a twelve-stringed Portuguese guitar and a Spanish guitar. 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