As they climbed up into the hills above Beirut, Hartmoor gazed out of the car window at the buildings around them. No scent of spring fo...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I finished writing Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy back in March. Today I finished work on the book. Once it wa...

Dubai's Twitter Book Club - or @TwitBookClub as it's fondly known - is a regular gathering of book reading types enabled by that...

Part of my list of the fourteen London publishers Robin shopped 'Beirut'   to - pretty much a 'who's who' of pub...

Beirut - An Explosive Thriller will be in UAE bookshops by December. With a little luck (and the permission of censors) it will go on sa...

   Lynch called across to Leila. ‘Where’s Deir Na’ee?’    She uncurled and came to him, looking over his shoulder at the screen, her bl...

   She was silk and she was jasmine, ivory and frankincense, her skin a pale golden slide for the smooth satin riding up her legs as she m...

Bob Studholme is a lecturer in English at the Al Ain branch of Abu Dhabi University. One of the beta readers who gave valuable and extensiv...