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Name
- Byline, as it should be printed
- Ilhem Belkherchouche
- Byline in Arabic
- إلهام بلخرشوش
- Publisher
- Self-published by the author, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. No imprint.
- Amazon author page
- amazon.com/author/ilhembelkherchouche
- Goodreads author page
- goodreads.com/author/show/70916550.Ilhem_Belkherchouche
Bios
- Short, 40 words
- Ilhem Belkherchouche writes literary fiction about family, memory and the things that go unsaid. She is the author of The Woman from Nowhere, The Land We Leave Behind and Worth the Paperwork. She lives in the United Arab Emirates.
- Long, 90 words
- Ilhem Belkherchouche writes literary fiction rooted in North Africa: novels about family, land, memory, and the arrangements families make with silence. Her first novel, The Woman from Nowhere, is a fair-play detective story set in the Kabylie mountains of Algeria. The Land We Leave Behind is a story of inheritance and what daughters are asked to give away. Worth the Paperwork steps outside that geography: a romantic comedy set in an invented country where citizens file their heartbreak on official forms, in triplicate. She writes in Arabic first and rewrites her books in English herself. She publishes from Abu Dhabi.
Covers
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- The Land We Leave Behind
1800 x 2700 px · 1.2 MB JPEG
- The Woman from Nowhere
1600 x 2400 px · 552 KB JPEG
The books
Worth the Paperwork. a love story in triplicate
A jaded clerk at the Bureau of Affective Complaints, and the man who files a complaint about the same woman every single week.
| Genre | Romantic comedy |
|---|---|
| eBook | $4.99 list · ISBN 978-9948-611-87-5 · ASIN B0HDF99K62 · 7 August 2026 |
| Paperback | 292 pages · $15.99 list · ISBN 9798191182933 · ASIN B0HD99D3K1 · 6 August 2026 |
| French | En trois exemplaires. Translated in full, subtitle "une histoire d'amour au Bureau des plaintes affectives". Not yet published. |
| Arabic | من ثلاث نُسَخ. Translated in full, subtitle "قصة حب في مكتب الشكاوى العاطفية". Not yet published. |
| Page | /books/worth-the-paperwork/ |
The Land We Leave Behind. A Novel of Family, Land, and Inheritance in Algeria
A deed signed in her father's own hand, three brothers who want it renounced, and a mother who signed away her own inheritance at seventeen and never once said so out loud.
| Genre | Literary fiction |
|---|---|
| eBook | $9.99 list · ISBN 978-9948-611-45-5 · ASIN B0HCN9VNQP · 3 August 2026 |
| Paperback | 378 pages · $22.99 list · ISBN 9798190469325 · ASIN B0HCNLKD5V · 3 August 2026 |
| Arabic | الأرض التي نتركها. Translated in full by the author. Not yet published. |
| Page | /books/the-land-we-leave-behind/ |
The Woman from Nowhere. A Detective Tiziri Benyacine Mystery
A nameless dead woman, a note in a foreign tongue, and a valley that insists she is a stranger, yet keeps describing one of its own.
| Genre | Literary crime |
|---|---|
| eBook | $9.50 list · ISBN 978-9948-611-00-4 · ASIN B0H5W6DRNT · 21 June 2026 |
| Paperback | 145 pages · $19.99 list · ISBN 9798182275187 · ASIN B0H67SGXB2 · 19 June 2026 |
| Arabic | المرأة القادمة من العدم. Translated in full by the author. Not yet published. |
| Page | /books/the-woman-from-nowhere/ |
Interviews and review copies
Write to contact@ilhembelkherchouche.com. Say which book, which format, and roughly when you need it. Interviews by email, and by voice if you would rather.