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What to read if you are travelling to Tangier

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I love reading about a place I am travelling to – whether a travel book on a practical level, or a more immersive fictional story that simply uses the city  as a context or backdrop.

There have been a few books published recently that I would definitely recommend for any visitor or traveller wanting to get below the skin of Tangier

 

The first I would recommend is this one : TANGIER From the Romans to the Rolling Stones

This book, literally hot off the press, was written by Richard Hamilton, a former BBC correspondent for North Africa.

Through the pages he “explores its hotels, cafés, alleyways and darkest secrets to find out what it is that has inspired so many international writers, artists and musicians.”

The author manages to bring the history of the city alive and by exploring the words of  Moroccan novelist Mohamed Choukri  who wrote that  “in Tangier everything is surreal and everything is possible” he delves below the surface of Tangier through its ancient as well as its more contemporary history.

If you are in town in October check in with the bookshop Librairie des Colonnes and you might be in time for the Tangier launch of this book – if not, its available HERE on Amazon.

 

Another recent addition to the Tangier library  explores the city  on a primarily visual level through its interiors and architecture .

Inside Tangier: house and Gardens is a beautiful cover table tome by interior designer  Nicolo Castellini Baldissera, with photography by Guido Toroni.

 

For a more practical, but no less visually pleasing read, In The Mood For has recently added Tangier to their list of curated city guides – it is available in either French or English online HERE or at Les Insolites in Tangier

 

And currently next to my bed is this book, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. Set partly in the port of Algeciras it has only the most tenuous of links to Tangier beyond the title and the ferry they are waiting for, but it is in my opinion a beautifully written and evocative piece of writing that has drawn me into its atmospheric and gritty narrative.

Book Shops in Tangier:

 

If you are in Tangier and looking for a book to read pop into

Librairie les Insolites or Librairie des Colonnes

 

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