For my loyal readers, I wrote a novella, as usual full of suspense and with a little romance. This is Book 3 of the My President-series. The assassination of a president. A grieving widow. A clan consumed by greed. Who can you trust when the entire family wants you dead? 'A breathless race
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Wherever my cats are, that’s my home. For me, living without cats is unthinkable. Treen, Wellington, Nelson, Lady, Duro, Chebba, Zina and Banu came before my current Siamese cats, Gatita and Dona. They’re always with me when I’m working – my faithful companions whilst I’m writing books. Sometimes they pop up in
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I love reading stories that are a good mix of reality and fantasy, just as much as I like to write them myself. And I guess that comes from my background as a journalist. But perhaps not so, as the first stories I wrote in my teens that were published in
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This is Zara, one of the main characters in Rahila's Secrets. Or at least, this is what she might look like, sitting on the steps of her home in the Old City of Jaffa, with her cat on her lap. This is how I imagine her living in Jaffa. It's a
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My readers asked me what happened to Zara, after she decided to stay in Kurdistan at the end of The Jewish Bride. Was she happy? Did she make the right decision, choosing for her Kurdish roots before her Jewish ones? Those questions led to Rahila's Secrets. Her grandmother took her secrets
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Having your DNA tested can lead to unexpected results. I discovered this when I wanted to find out whether a family rumor about Jewish roots was true. Five tests and many hours spent working on my family tree later, I did indeed find a surprise. But it was a different
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The Jewish Bride, my novel about the lost Jewish past of Iraq, is now available in Arabic. Only as e-book, and only with Amazon at the moment. I still hope that there will an Arabic publisher interested in this book, as it is important also for readers in the Arab world
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They seemed so relaxed, the female peshmerga that I went to visit in the Kurdistan Regio. But they were fighting a war, against brutal Muslim fighters who hated them. In one of the wars that I saw up close while living in Iraq. (more…)
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Twenty years ago, in October 2005, my first (non fiction) book hit the shelves. Misled Martyrs (Misleide Martelaren) was published in the Netherlands by Contact Publishing House. In the years after its publication, the book, about an Iranian political organisation that turned into a sect, was translated into Farsi, Kurdish
Lees verderThe President's Mistress Who is the target of the Arab family clan? A short story of espionage and romance Imagine being asked by the president of a small Arab state to come and work for him. And this president is as attractive as a movie star. British journalist Julia Wandels doesn’t need much
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