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The Spider’s House (Paul Bowles) - Fès in the twilight of the French occupation is the arena for this political tour de force considered by many to be Bowles’ finest. Daily Fès life, with its web-like complexities, provides a fascinating backdrop.
Tangier: City of the Dream (Iain Finlayson) - A highly readable account of the life of this ‘seedy, salacious, decadent, degenerate’ city with intriguing insights into the Beat Generation of writers including Paul Bowles, Truman Capote and Jack Kerouac.
Hideous Kinky (Esther Freud) - A young hippie takes her children to Marrakesh to find herself and an alternative life. Famously made into a film starring Kate Winslet, Esther Freud’s witty lightness-of-touch is even more engaging.
Morocco: In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars (Walter M Weiss) - An ambitious journey through the contradictions of modern Morocco from its polyglot past to its modern liberal-conservative fault lines.
The Caliph’s House (Tahir Shah) - A brilliant account of how a writer and filmmaker left behind London life to renovate the djinn-haunted former home of the caliph of Casablancan – overflowing with insight and Moroccan characters writ large.
Valley of the Casbahs: A Journey Across the Moroccan Sahara (Jeffrey Tayler) - An epic modern-day camel journey from the Drâa Valley to the Atlantic, leaving behind tourist Morocco, with Berbers and a harsh desert terrain for company.
Street in Marrakech (Elizabeth Warnock Fernea) - A peerless account that gets beneath the skin of beguiling Marrakesh, with fascinating portraits of city life and the struggles of a Western woman to fully enter the Moroccan world. Written in the 1980s, it still resonates.
Zohra’s Ladder: And Other Stories from Morocco (Pamela Windo) - A lively window on the traveller’s hard-love affair with Morocco, set against the vivid backdrop of Moroccan historical and social life.
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