Characters in From Madid to Heaven unexpectedly find themselves in impossible circumstances. In fourteen short stories, set between Iberia and North Africa, they come nevertheless to face the strange possibility that when nothing is possible, everything may suddenly be possible.

Leslie Croxford is a British writer born in Alexandria, Egypt. He received a doctorate in History from Cambridge University and has published three novels, Solomon's Folly (Chatto & Windus, 1974), Deep Sahara (The Momentum Publishing Company, 2017) and Another Man (Paper + Ink, 2021).
He lives with his wife in Cairo where he was a founder of The British University in Egypt. In 2022 the Queen awarded him the Order of the British Empire for services to British Higher Education in Egypt