New York Bloomsbury (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring private investigator Makana, who had fled his home in the Sudan a decade earlier. "It is the summer of 2001, and in the crowded streets of Cairo, Makana finds himself uncovering a web of intrigue, violence, and secrecy that reaches deep into the heart of Egypt's politics." 384 pp. ISBN: 978-1-608198719.

New York Bloomsbury (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel featuring private investigator Makana, who had fled his home in the Sudan a decade earlier, and is increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter. It is 2002 and tanks are rolling into the West Bank but then the authorities seem eager to cast a blind eye on the death of a young girl, he is determined to investigate it.. 413 pp. ISBN: 978-1-620403402.

New York: The Viking Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - An English pilgrim is on his way to the shrine of Saint Catherine to medieval Cairo with an additional task of spying on suspicious activities at the Mameluke court, but when he arrives in Cairo in 1486 he contracts a mysterious disease that causes hallucinations powerful enough to threaten his sanity. One review called this a "distinctive blend of the seductive and the disturbing, its atmosphere constantly shifting from sumptuously learned orientalizing to grotesque erotic adventure and dry humor" (City Limits) Originally published in 1984, this 1987 Viking edition has some revisions. Illustrated with 19th century lithographs by David Roberts. Includes a note on the artist. 282 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-670816612.

London: Toby Press, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - ".a contemporary spy novel . . . The narrator-hero, Ben Bolton, alias David Ditchling, an ex-marine officer, is in Cairo completing some private business when by chance he is caught up in a terrorist attack on a bus-load of Armenian tourists. Standing bes ide an elderly Armenian woman, he instinctively throws himself down on top of her to protect her from the hail of bullets. He saves her life but is himself wounded" (P. D. James) 221 pp. ISBN: 1902881028.

New York: Grove Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Booker Prize winner. As a woman lies dying, she reflects back on her long and adventurous life, as a newspaper correspondent, historical novelist, wife, mother, lover - but her thoughts focus repeatedly on a passionate love affair in Cairo during World War II. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-10274.

New York: Riverhead Books / Penguin, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Drawing upon the actual discovery of the Lost Gospels of Nag Hammadi in the desert south of Cairo at the end of World War II, this features British nurse Gemma Bastian who travels to Cairo after the death of her father. "While she's there she stumbles across her father's last and most closely guarded archaeological project, one that could change the Christian world forever: the discovery of the legendary Lost Gospels." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Map, timeline, terminology and a note of Gnosticism. 374 pp. ISBN: 1-59448919X.

Los Angeles: Saturday Night Publishing Company, 1928. Hardcover first edition - First publication in book form of the author's letters from a Mediterranean trip - a journey which took him to Madeira, Granada, Seville, Tunis, Carthage, Athens, Constantinople, Cairo, Thebes, Abydos, Luxor, Capri, and elsewhere. Full of interesting sidelights and comments - for example, Henry Timkin, the inventor of the revolutionary tapered roller bearings, and his wife were among the passengers and this leads to a digression on the need in California of faster transcontinental railroads; a brief comment "oil makes the world go round. Will oil be the cause of a future conflict?" Illustrated with 22 half-tone photographic plates by the author, with titled tissue guards. 117 pp. Map endpapers.