Bitter Lemon bring you high quality, award-winning contemporary crime fiction and eclectic non-fiction books.
These are gripping crime books that expose the darker side of foreign places. From mystery novels to thrillers, they explore what lies just beneath the surface of the bustling life of countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Turkey, France and Italy. From Argentina to Australia, these crime fiction books are for your travels - whether real or imaginary.
Wilmington Square Books are a collection of non-fiction books about culture and society, chosen for their originality, their quality and their contribution to knowledge and debate.
The End of the Sahara by Said Khatibi s out. On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an Algerian city on the edge of the desert, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zakia Zaghouani, the stunning nightclub singer at the Sahara Hotel. LINK. Translated from the Arabic by Alexandre Elinson.
Our Christmas Newsletter is out. Katja Ivar's trilogy about the headstrong Finnish detective Hella Mauzer is featured. Finland in the 1950s engaged in a precarious high-wire act, playing off the Western victors of WWII and the Soviet Union hunkered down on its eastern border: whodunnits and political thrillers of the highest order.
The End of the Sahara by Said Khatibi, translated from the Arabic by Alexander Elinson, selected as one of '10 Noir Novels to Kill For' by The Markaz Review. Available from Bitter Lemon Press in February 2026.
Times/ Sunday Times picks Red Water by Croatian novelist Jurica Pavicic as the crime novel of the year.
