Parker Bilal Books in Order

Tanner, caught between Britain and Sudan, heads to Khartoum looking for purpose and a sense of home. Instead he finds a country scarred by war, famine, and moral compromise, and must decide what kind of man he is.

From exile in France, Sharif looks back on youth, friendship, and the hopes that surrounded Sudanese independence. His memories of love, ambition, and return slowly harden into a painful record of political failure.

Set in nineteenth-century Sudan, this historical novel follows a wide cast through the upheaval of the Mahdist wars. Faith, empire, and survival collide as ordinary lives are swept into a brutal struggle for power.

A modern scholar in Denmark investigates a strange archaeological find linked to an Arab traveler from the seventeenth century. Their two stories meet across time in a novel about science, belief, exile, and the movement of knowledge.

Yasin sets off across Europe in an old Peugeot with his young son, hoping to explain where they come from before his marriage collapses for good. The road trip becomes a funny, sad search for identity, family, and belonging.

Set in Nubia as rising waters threaten villages before the Aswan High Dam is completed, this novel captures a community on the edge of disappearance. Legend, history, and daily life mingle in a story about loss and endurance.

Across decades and countries, several linked lives circle questions of migration, love, and belonging. From Liverpool docks to Sudan and beyond, the novel follows families shaped by dislocation, memory, and the restless pull of other places.

In Cairo, exiled Sudanese investigator Makana is hired to find a missing man for a powerful client. The case pulls him through the city's wealthy enclaves and rough backstreets, and back toward enemies he hoped to outrun.

A nervous Cairo travel agent asks Makana to look into threats against him as sectarian tension and unsolved murders spread through the city. The search takes Makana from Cairo to Luxor and into a knot of secrets, violence, and politics.

A routine surveillance job turns deadly when Makana stumbles onto the murder of a teenage girl. Chasing the truth into Egypt's Siwa oasis, he faces buried grievances, shifting loyalties, and a case the authorities would rather ignore.

Makana is hired by a wealthy art dealer to recover a painting looted from Baghdad during the Iraq war. What looks like an art-world errand quickly becomes a dangerous trail of murder, war secrets, and betrayal.

A severed head on the Nile and a missing boy draw Makana into the murders of African refugees in Cairo. As the cases begin to overlap, he is forced to confront old loyalties and the pull of his Sudanese past.

Makana is offered a job that could finally lead him toward answers about his lost family, escort a scientist to safety. The trail runs through Cairo and Istanbul, where spies, militants, and lies make every ally suspect.

Part memoir and part history, this book follows Jamal Mahjoub back to Khartoum after years away. Through streets, memory, and political fracture, he tries to understand the city that shaped him and the country that drove his family out.

When two bodies are found on a Battersea building site, DS Calil Drake sees a chance to rebuild his damaged career. Working with forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane, he uncovers a case tied to war, faith, and revenge.

A severed head on the London Underground drags Cal Drake back toward a case that wrecked his police career. Now working with Rayhana Crane as a private investigator, he follows the trail into organized crime and a very personal reckoning.

When an invitation arrives for the long-defunct Kamanga Kings to perform in Washington, Rushdy helps reunite the Sudanese band. Their chaotic trip becomes a warm, sharp novel about music, exile, friendship, and what survives after a culture is squeezed.

Rayhana Crane is asked to trace a missing young man who may have returned to Britain after joining Islamic State. As Drake goes undercover and Crane follows a second disappearance, terror networks and organized crime start to merge.

Hitman Brodie is sent to kill Karima, a woman caught in a London gang war, then receives orders that turn the job inside out. Suddenly on the run together, they have to decide whether trust is possible before either side catches up.