The Caliph's House by Tahir Shah torrent

Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul...

Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life.

Flying in the face of friends' advice, he longed to fulfil his dream of finding a place bursting with life, colour, history and romance - somewhere far removed from London - in which to raise a family.

Genre: Autobiography, Non-Fiction, Memoir