Acts of Faith is a gripping and timely novel exploring themes of alternative history, and Europe's relationship with the Arab and Islamic worlds. At once a memoir of the protagonist, Marwan Tayeh, and a work of speculative and dystopian fiction, the book explores an alternative reality in which England has become a poor, war-torn country, its fortunes never having recovered following the Great War, whereas Muslim countries are prosperous and at the apex of the cultural and geopolitical world order.