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  • Cover image of book Last Seen In Lapaz by Kwei Quartey
    Last Seen In Lapaz - by Kwei Quartey

    £9.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781641295314 | ISBN 10: 1641295317

    When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra.  Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen
    Tomorrow I Become a Woman - by Aiwanose Odafen

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398506145 | ISBN 10: 1398506141

    'This story of love, loss and resilient female friendship is a definite must read.’ Tola Rotimi Abraham, author of Black Sunday   ‘Aiwanose Odafen’s novel has entered popular feminist discourse.’ Afrocritik  On a Sunday in 197 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor
    Things They Lost - by Okwiri Oduor

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780861544912 | ISBN 10: 0861544919

    Longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize  ‘Magical, beguiling... Carries echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved‘ Guardian   A Vulture ‘Book We Can’t Wait to Read in 2022’  They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Butterfly Fish by Irenosen Okojie
    Butterfly Fish - by Irenosen Okojie

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914344114 | ISBN 10: 1914344111

    Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2016.  "A novel of epic proportions... I fully expect to see Butterfly Fish on many an award nomination list." — Yvvette Edwards, author of A Cupboard Full of Coats.  "A stunningly well-written book, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
    Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth - by Wole Soyinka

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526638250 | ISBN 10: 1526638258

    'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri   'A lion of African literature' - Financial Times   'Chronicles is many things at once: a caustic political satire, a murder mystery, a conspiracy story and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
    The Republic of False Truths - by Alaa Al Aswany

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571347612 | ISBN 10: 0571347614

    ‘Glorious’ Observer ‘Amazing‘ André Aciman ‘Masterly‘ Sunday Times ‘Blistering‘ Financial Times  General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.  Under the regime ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad by Damilare Kuku
    Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad - by Damilare Kuku

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800751910 | ISBN 10: 1800751915

    One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband’s penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Captain Ni
    Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle - by Mohamed Leftah

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781635420647 | ISBN 10: 1635420644

    First published after the author’s death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired air force pilot who begins a dangerous affair with a male servant.  Captain Ni’mat, a reservist from the Egypti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
    Transcendent Kingdom - by Yaa Gyasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241988657 | ISBN 10: 0241988659

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021.   From the bestselling author of Homegoing.  As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. W ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Hamdi Abu Golayyel
    The Men Who Swallowed the Sun - by Hamdi Abu Golayyel

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781649030948 | ISBN 10: 1649030940

    Translated by Humphrey Davies.  This gritty tale of two men’s ill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East and the cities of Europe is pure storytelling.   Two Bedouin men from Egypt’s Western Desert see ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
    Sankofa - by Chibundu Onuzo

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349013138 | ISBN 10: 0349013136

    A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK · A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK · SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION FUTURES PRIZE · AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR  Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wond ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zainab Takes New York by Ayesha Harruna Attah
    Zainab Takes New York - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472288394 | ISBN 10: 1472288394

    ***INCLUDED IN THE AFRICA CENTER’S ROUND-UP OF 50 NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2021***   Zainab Sekyi is on a quest to find herself...  She’s moving to New York City to pursue her lifelong dream to become an illustrator, but she does ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Become an Outlaw by Peter Murphy
    To Become an Outlaw - by Peter Murphy

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857304667 | ISBN 10: 0857304666

    'When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw' - Nelson Mandela   1964, Apartheid South Africa. Danie du Plessis, the son of a conservative Afrikaner family, is poised to start a gl ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
    We Are All Birds of Uganda - by Hafsa Zayyan

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529118667 | ISBN 10: 1529118662

    You can't exactly stop birds from flying, can you? They go where they will...'  1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rhino Conspiracy by Peter Hain
    The Rhino Conspiracy - by Peter Hain

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781916360297 | ISBN 10: 1916360297

    In the last decade over 6,000 rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Relentless poaching for their horns has led to a catastrophic fall in black rhino numbers. Meanwhile a corrupt South African government turns a blind eye to the international trad ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    The First Woman - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786078582 | ISBN 10: 1786078589

    * A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, BBC CULTURE & IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR * A WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * OPRAH MAGAZINE BEST OF 2020 * A TIME MAGAZINE MUST-READ BOOK OF 2020 * A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK OF THE MONTH ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Boat from Tangier by James von Leyden
    Last Boat from Tangier - by James von Leyden

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472130662 | ISBN 10: 1472130669

    Death stalks the streets of Tangier...  When Detective Karim Belkacem's best friend and colleague, Abdou, goes missing during an investigation into an illegal cartel, Karim is sent to Tangier to look for him. But the Tangier police have another p ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui
    All Men Want to Know - by Nina Bouraoui

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241447734 | ISBN 10: 0241447739

    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD   All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moroccan Daughter by Deborah Rodriguez
    The Moroccan Daughter - by Deborah Rodriguez

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780751574609 | ISBN 10: 0751574600

    The brand new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.   In Morocco, behind the ancient walls of the medina, secrets will be revealed...  Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home in Morocco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa by Various authors
    Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781780265056 | ISBN 10: 1780265050

    Check-in... To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels with the option to pay by the hour. To intimate anonymous rooms wiped clean every twenty-four hours or clammy beds where remnants of yesterday's guests still lurk.   Check-in... Lovers ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
    The Girl with the Louding Voice - by Abi Dare

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529359275 | ISBN 10: 1529359279

    * AS RECOMMENDED BY MALALA YOUSAFZAI * AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A TOP TEN SUNDAY POST BESTSELLERA STYLIST BEST BOOK OF 2020   All you have are your words.   Meet Adunni, a teenage girl born into a rural Nigerian village. Aged f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
    The Old Drift - by Namwali Serpell

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784703998 | ISBN 10: 1784703990

    Electrifying, playful, ambitious, brilliant – a Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time.  On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majest ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
    The Shadow King - by Maaza Mengiste

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838851170 | ISBN 10: 1838851178

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020  ETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid.   Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Manchester Happened - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077769 | ISBN 10: 1786077760

    A stunning new story collection from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, acclaimed author of Kintu and winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018.  If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Mak ... more

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  • Cover image of book She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
    She Would Be King - by Wayétu Moore

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911590132 | ISBN 10: 1911590138

    In the west African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she survives to discover a new life with a group of African American settlers in the colony of Mon ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Caine Prize for African Writing 2019 Shortlist by Various authors
    The Caine Prize for African Writing 2019 Shortlist - by Various authors

    £4.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780265209 | ISBN 10: 1780265204

    Now in its twentieth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere.  This collection brings together t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Manchester Happened - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786075895 | ISBN 10: 178607589x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019  AN AMBITIOUS AND ASSURED COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF KINTU.  If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi's stories know, it's ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
    Freshwater - by Akwaeke Emezi

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571345403 | ISBN 10: 0571345409

    Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry. Their troubled child begins to develop separate selves and is prone to fits of anger and grief. When Ada grows up and heads to college in Amer ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
    My Sister, the Serial Killer - by Oyinkan Braithwaite

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786495983 | ISBN 10: 1786495988

    Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, 2019   When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
    Everything Good Will Come - by Sefi Atta

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912408528 | ISBN 10: 191240852x

    Now a classic of world literature, this beautifully written, funny and piercingly honest story of a contemporary Yoruba woman’s coming-of-age in Lagos is a heartfelt drama of family, friendship, community and divided loyalties.  It is 1971, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl by Edna O
    Girl - by Edna O'Brien

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571341160 | ISBN 10: 0571341160

    The new novel by the legendary Edna O’Brien, author of The Country Girls (dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019).  Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a communit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
    Praise Song for the Butterflies - by Bernice L. McFadden

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781909762886 | ISBN 10: 1909762881

    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019   A powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded.   Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom
    The Expedition to the Baobab Tree - by Wilma Stockenstrom

    £7.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571347742 | ISBN 10: 0571347746

    Wearily, I take the path to the river, there in the cool to fill my being with the sounds of my sister-being, to refresh myself in the modest scents of pigeonwood and mitzeerie, to let my gaze end in a tangle of monkey ropes and fern arches and the s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction by Ralph Cormack (Editor)
    The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction - by Ralph Cormack (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974254 | ISBN 10: 1910974250

    Featuring Hassan Abdel Mawgoud, Eman Abdelrahim, Nael Eltoukhy, Areej Gamal, Hatem Hafez, Hend Jaʿfar, Nahla Karam, Mohamed Kheir, Ahmed Naji & Mohamed Salah al-Azab.   A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dune Song by Anissa M Bouziane
    Dune Song - by Anissa M Bouziane

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912240357 | ISBN 10: 1912240351

    Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Prix Littéraire Sofitel Tour Blanche   'I came to the Sahara to be buried.'   After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lagos Noir by Chris Abani (Editor)
    Lagos Noir - by Chris Abani (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115731 | ISBN 10: 1911115731

    An uncompromising anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos, written by some of the most versatile and fascinating Nigerian authors working today. Fans of the darker side of literature will revel in these tales from Nigeria’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
    House of Stone - by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    £14.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786493163 | ISBN 10: 1786493160

    Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea. Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Kintu - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786074430 | ISBN 10: 1786074435

    An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda's troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan.   The breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 by Various authors
    Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780264615 | ISBN 10: 1780264615

    Edited by Chris Brazier and The Caine Prize.   Now in its nineteenth year the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or ... more

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  • Cover image of book The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
    The City Always Wins - by Omar Robert Hamilton

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571332663 | ISBN 10: 0571332668

    *** Winner of the the Betty Trask Prize 2018 ***   Egypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. Mariam and Khalil, two young activists, are swept up in the fervour. Their ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
    The Hundred Wells of Salaga - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115519 | ISBN 10: 1911115510

    Aminah lives an idyllic life in the village of Botu, until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that will turn her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the wilful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an im ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Wizard of the Crow - by Ngugi wa Thiong

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873356 | ISBN 10: 1784873357

    Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatises with searing humour and piercing observation a battle for control of the sould of the Aburirian people.  Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a daz ... more

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  • Cover image of book Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa
    Evening Primrose - by Kopano Matlwa

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473662285 | ISBN 10: 1473662281

    Compelling and heart-wrenching, Evening Primrose explores issues of race, poverty and gender in post-apartheid South Africa through the eyes of a junior doctor.   When Masechaba finally achieves her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, he ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
    A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - by Gil Courtemanche

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782118886 | ISBN 10: 1782118888

    A modern classic of immense power and and poignancy set amidst the horror of war.   In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jagua Nana by Cyprian Ekwensi
    Jagua Nana - by Cyprian Ekwensi

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241334997 | ISBN 10: 0241334993

    Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature.   Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Petals of Blood - by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873363 | ISBN 10: 1784873365

    After decades of British rule Kenya has declared its independence, but drought and poor harvests still govern the village of Ilmorog. Undeterred, Munira, Karega, Wanja and Abdulla each move to Ilmorog in search of a more provincial life, only to find ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
    Stay With Me - by Ayobami Adebayo

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782119609 | ISBN 10: 1782119604

    “If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking”   Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize, this Nigerian debut is the heart-breaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person, a mar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
    Dance of the Jakaranda - by Peter Kimani

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846592096 | ISBN 10: 1846592097

    New York Times Notable Book of the Year   1963. Kenya is on the verge of independence from British colonial rule. In the Great Rift Valley, Kenyans of all backgrounds come together in the previously white-only establishment of the Jakaranda Ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
    Black Moses - by Alain Mabanckou

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781256749 | ISBN 10: 1781256748

    Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017.  The new novel from the outstanding figure of French and African literature, Man Booker International shortlisted novelist Alain Mabanckou.  It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
    Homegoing - by Yaa Gyasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241975237 | ISBN 10: 0241975239

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Book   Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa by Efemia Chela (Editor)
    Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa - by Efemia Chela (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780264059 | ISBN 10: 1780264054

    Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories. This is the fourth in the SSDA collection of anthologies whic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rotten Row by Petina Gappah
    Rotten Row - by Petina Gappah

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571324194 | ISBN 10: 0571324193

    It is just after nine o’clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds.  ‘Rotten Row’ is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the subjects ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gurugu Pledge by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
    The Gurugu Pledge - by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908276940 | ISBN 10: 1908276940

    On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city’s walls and gain asylum on European soil.  Inspired by first-hand accounts, Juan Tomás Ávil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taduno
    Taduno's Song - by Odafe Atogun

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118138 | ISBN 10: 1782118136

    “When music is silent you hear the laughter of the tyrant”   A powerful debut from a new voice in contemporary African writing.   The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Taduno’s homeland, he knows that the time has come ... more

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  • Cover image of book Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
    Welcome to Lagos - by Chibundu Onuzo

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571268955 | ISBN 10: 0571268951

    When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows that it is time to leave. As he travels towards Lagos, he becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a better life.   Their arriva ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lament for the Fallen by Gavin Chait
    Lament for the Fallen - by Gavin Chait

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784161330 | ISBN 10: 1784161330

    A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals discover the broken body of a man unlike any they have seen before – a man who is perhaps something more than human.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Swing Time by Zadie Smith
    Swing Time - by Zadie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141036601 | ISBN 10: 0141036605

    An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty.   Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Day Ends Like Any Day by Timothy Ogene
    The Day Ends Like Any Day - by Timothy Ogene

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910688298 | ISBN 10: 1910688290

    Sam, a young Nigerian whose father only speaks to the children once he has taken on enough alcohol, and whose mother won’t accept that Sam is different from his siblings, is formed by the people he meets, the gay young man he cannot rescue from his ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila
    The Ultimate Tragedy - by Abdulai Sila

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910213544 | ISBN 10: 1910213543

    The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule.  Ndani leaves her village to seek a better ... more

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  • Cover image of book Segu by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray
    Segu - by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241293515 | ISBN 10: 0241293510

    The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty.  It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
    The Woman Next Door - by Yewande Omotoso

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784701376 | ISBN 10: 1784701378

    Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb.  One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
    The Automobile Club of Egypt - by Alaa Al Aswany

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857862211 | ISBN 10: 0857862219

    Inside the walls of the Automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide - Cairo's European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them.   The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Tell Me You're Afraid - by Giuseppe Catozzella

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571322695 | ISBN 10: 0571322697

    Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.   Samia Omar grows up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter. She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
    Under the Udala Trees - by Chinelo Okparanta

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847088383 | ISBN 10: 1847088384

    One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a r ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Beautiful White Cat Walks With Me by Youssef Fadel, translated by Alexander E. Elinson
    A Beautiful White Cat Walks With Me - by Youssef Fadel, translated by Alexander E. Elinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789774167768 | ISBN 10: 9774167767

    A modern Moroccan tale of power, love, and loss.  Hassan makes a living in his native Marrakesh as a comic writer and performer, through his satirical sketches critical of Morocco’s rulers. Yet when he is suddenly conscripted into a losing ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets by Khairy Shalaby, translated by Michael Cooperson
    The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets - by Khairy Shalaby, translated by Michael Cooperson

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789774167928 | ISBN 10: 9774167929

    The misadventures of a modern time traveler through Egypt’s recent and medieval past.   Ibn Shalaby, like many Egyptians, is looking for a job. Yet, unlike most of his fellow citizens, he is prone to sudden dislocations in time. Armed with h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taduno
    Taduno's Song - by Odafe Atogun

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782118053 | ISBN 10: 1782118055

    "Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel"(Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History Of Seven Killings) The day a stained brown envelope ... more

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  • Cover image of book About My Mother by Tahar Ben Jelloun
    About My Mother - by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592010 | ISBN 10: 1846592011

    Since shes been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory.   Lalla Fatma thinks shes in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are l ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Song for Night by Chris Abani
    A Song for Night - by Chris Abani

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592041 | ISBN 10: 1846592046

    Even with the knowledge that there are some sins too big for even God to forgive, every night my sky is still full of stars; a wonderful song for night.   Trained as a human mine detector, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction by Raph Cormack & Max Shmookler (Editors)
    The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction - by Raph Cormack & Max Shmookler (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583720 | ISBN 10: 1905583729

    Featuring Bushra al-Fadil, Isa al-Hilu, Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Arthur Gabriel Yak, Hammour Ziada, Ahmed al-Malik, Bawadir Bashir, Mamoun Eltlib, Rania Mamoun & Ali al-Makk  Translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes, Raph Cormack, Mohammed Ghalayeini, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Traces of Sandalwood by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir
    Traces of Sandalwood - by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789462380578 | ISBN 10: 9462380570

    Muna, a young Indian orphan, is working in a carpet factory in Bombay. She cannot forget about her sister Sita, from whom she was separated. Sita, who lives in an orphanage in the same city, doesnt remember her older sister and dreams about having a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Little Warrior by Giuseppe Catozzella
    Little Warrior - by Giuseppe Catozzella

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571322688 | ISBN 10: 0571322689

    A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill her dream of becoming a champion runner.   Little Warrior is based on the life of Samia Omar, a girl who grows up in war-tor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jimfish by Christopher Hope
    Jimfish - by Christopher Hope

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857898074 | ISBN 10: 0857898078

    In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
    The Fishermen - by Chigozie Obioma

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780957548862 | ISBN 10: 0957548869

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE In this dazzling debut novel, four young brothers in a small Nigerian town encounter a madman, whose prophecy of violence threatens the core of their family Told from the point of view of nine-year ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)
    Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara - by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869024 | ISBN 10: 1408869020

    Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin F ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Curator by Jacques Strauss
    The Curator - by Jacques Strauss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099597728 | ISBN 10: 0099597721

    Longlisted for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize  It's not possible to undo what happened in 1976.  In rural South Africa a family massacre takes place; a bloodbath whose only witness is the familys black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the prin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician by Tendai Huchu
    The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician - by Tendai Huchu

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910409985 | ISBN 10: 1910409987

    Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain.   The Magistrate tries to create new memories and roots, fusing a wandering exploration of Edinbu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dictator
    The Dictator's Last Night - by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Julian Evans

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910477137 | ISBN 10: 1910477133

    In this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Yasmina Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history.   People say I am a megalomaniac. It ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
    The Book of Memory - by Petina Gappah

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571296842 | ISBN 10: 057129684x

    The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harraga by Boualem Sansal
    Harraga - by Boualem Sansal

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408843994 | ISBN 10: 1408843994

    In a crumbling colonial mansion besieged by slums in the old quarter of Algiers, Lamia lives a life of self-imposed isolation, communing only with her ghosts by day, working as a paediatrician by day. Her family are dead, but for her beloved brother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
    Beasts of No Nation - by Uzodinma Iweala

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473625556 | ISBN 10: 1473625556

    Official tie-in to the Netflix Original Film featuring Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre).   Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are re ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
    Blackass - by A. Igoni Barrett

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701188566 | ISBN 10: 0701188561

    White skin, green eyes, red hair black ass. Furo Wariboko born and bred in Lagos wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the streets of Lagos running, Furo finds the dead ends of hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 by Various authors
    Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262284 | ISBN 10: 1780262280

    The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 brings together the five shortlisted authors' stories along with 12 other stories from the best new writers. Insightful, arresting and entertaining - this collection reflects the richness and range of current ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hiding in Plain Sight by Nuruddin Farah
    Hiding in Plain Sight - by Nuruddin Farah

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780747996 | ISBN 10: 1780747993

    When Bella, an internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling and aloof, is forced to return to Nairobi to care for her teenage niece and nephew, she feels an unfamiliar surge of protectiveness and responsibility. But when their mother unex ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
    Dust - by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783781317 | ISBN 10: 1783781319

    Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya. But the peace they seek is hard to find: the mur ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Pasta to Pigfoot by Frances Mensah Williams
    From Pasta to Pigfoot - by Frances Mensah Williams

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909762206 | ISBN 10: 1909762202

    From Pasta to Pigfoot is a contemporary, multi-cultural novel that tells the story of Faye Bonsu, a pasta-loving, underachieving PA whose upbringing in leafy Hampstead, London has given her little opportunity to understand her African heritage.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost Runner by Parker Bilal
    The Ghost Runner - by Parker Bilal

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408841136 | ISBN 10: 1408841134

    It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dangerous Love by Ben Okri
    Dangerous Love - by Ben Okri

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784082543 | ISBN 10: 1784082546

    From the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a classic love story set in a country trying to come to terms with its past.   An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is a story of doomed love, of star-crossed lovers, separated not by their families, but ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Musseque by Jos Luandino Vieira, translated by Robin Patterson
    Our Musseque - by Jos Luandino Vieira, translated by Robin Patterson

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910213070 | ISBN 10: 1910213071

    Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
    All Our Names - by Dinaw Mengestu

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444793758 | ISBN 10: 1444793756

    An unforgettable tale of love, friendship and revolution set between Africa and America, by the winner of the Guardian First Book Award.  LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015  Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The African Equation by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Howard Curtis
    The African Equation - by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Howard Curtis

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908313706 | ISBN 10: 1908313706

    One of the giants of francophone writing of our time, Algerian author Yasmina Khadra takes current events as a starting point to explore opposing views and myths of Africa and the West, attitudes to life and work and our duties towards our fellow hum ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta
    A Bit of Difference - by Sefi Atta

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007536108 | ISBN 10: 0007536100

    Deola Bello is tired of London, but shes not ready to give up on life. When her charity job takes her home to Nigeria, her thoughts turn to the future, as she questions whether her peripatetic existence is still right for her.   Deola encount ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
    Radiance of Tomorrow - by Ishmael Beah

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780374535032 | ISBN 10: 0374535035

    A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone  When Ishmael Beahs A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Le ... more

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  • Cover image of book Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
    Every Day is for the Thief - by Teju Cole

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571307944 | ISBN 10: 0571307949

    A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, his childhood country has grown up quickly: found fast-food restaurants, email cafs, contempt for authority; the all-consuming draw of money for nothing. From the consul ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bridges of Constantine by Ahlem Mosteghanemi, translated by Raphael Cohen
    The Bridges of Constantine - by Ahlem Mosteghanemi, translated by Raphael Cohen

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408856482 | ISBN 10: 1408856484

    Khaled, a former revolutionary in the Algerian war of liberation has been in self-exile in Paris for two decades, disgusted by the corruption that now riddles the country he once fought for. Now a celebrated painter, Khaled is consumed with passion f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
    Happiness, Like Water - by Chinelo Okparanta

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847088314 | ISBN 10: 1847088317

    In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor comforting a troubled student; a mother seeking refug ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
    We Need New Names - by Noviolet Bulawayo

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099581888 | ISBN 10: 0099581884

    * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013*   * US National Book Award 5 Under 35 *   * Winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014*  * Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2014*   * Winner of a Betty Trask Award 2014* &n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed
    The Orchard of Lost Souls - by Nadifa Mohamed

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781471115301 | ISBN 10: 1471115305

    It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp she was ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Guillotine Choice by Michael J Malone and Bashir Saoudi
    The Guillotine Choice - by Michael J Malone and Bashir Saoudi

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908643407 | ISBN 10: 1908643404

    In 1920s French-controlled Algeria, Kaci is in the frame for the brutal murder of his French boss. He is faced with a stark choice: win freedom by naming the killer and thus condemning him to the guillotine, or keep quiet and face a never-ending sent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Butterfly Wings: An Egyptian Novel by Mohamed Salmawy, translated by Raphael Cohen
    Butterfly Wings: An Egyptian Novel - by Mohamed Salmawy, translated by Raphael Cohen

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9789774166426 | ISBN 10: 9774166426

    The prescient Egyptian novel that described the January 2011 Revolution before it happened.   A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an a ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola
    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - by Amos Tutuola

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571316915 | ISBN 10: 0571316913

    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954.   It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 by Various authors
    The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780261744 | ISBN 10: 1780261748

    The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 brings together the five shortlisted authors' stories along with 12 other stories from the best new writers. Insightful, arresting and entertaining - this collection reflects the richness and range of current ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
    The Palm Wine Drinkard - by Amos Tutuola

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571311538 | ISBN 10: 0571311539

    This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the compl ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
    The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden - by Jonas Jonasson

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007557905 | ISBN 10: 0007557906

    As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, this is a tale of how one womans attempt to change her future ended up changing everything.   Nombeko Mayeki is on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Americanah - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007356348 | ISBN 10: 000735634x

    From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.   As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
    Ghana Must Go - by Taiye Selasi

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780670919888 | ISBN 10: 0670919888

    Electric, exhilarating, and beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go introduces the world to Taiye Selasi, a novelist of extraordinary talent. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, it is at once a portrait of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jebel Marra by Michelle Green
    Jebel Marra - by Michelle Green

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781905583546 | ISBN 10: 1905583540

    In 2005, the poet Michelle Green spent six months working for a humanitarian aid agency in West Darfur. Her job was to navigate a complex web of government regulations and domestic logistics so that her colleagues, Sudanese and international, could d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy
    Brooklyn Heights - by Miral al-Tahawy

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571280056 | ISBN 10: 0571280056

    A novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.   Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight-year-old son after the painful bre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher
    Three Strong Women - by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857051073 | ISBN 10: 0857051075

    Three women who almost had it all...  Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in her home city; Khady runs a cafe with her loving husband now all she wants is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crossbones by Nurudin Farah
    Crossbones - by Nurudin Farah

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847086105 | ISBN 10: 1847086101

    A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jee ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lure of the Honey Bird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia by Elizabeth Laird
    The Lure of the Honey Bird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia - by Elizabeth Laird

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846972461 | ISBN 10: 1846972469

    In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tank ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Raw Man by George Makana Clark
    The Raw Man - by George Makana Clark

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099548782 | ISBN 10: 009954878x

    A remarkable debut novel set in Southern Africa, where a man struggles to unravel his family's secrets and come to grips with his own ancestry, and his troubled past. It begins with a journey. In a resurrected bungalow on the edge of the fledglin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
    The Dream of the Celt - by Mario Vargas Llosa

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275755 | ISBN 10: 0571275753

    As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer
    No Time Like the Present - by Nadine Gordimer

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408831267 | ISBN 10: 1408831260

    Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery by Parker Bilal
    The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery - by Parker Bilal

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781408830369 | ISBN 10: 1408830361

    Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a da ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spider King
    The Spider King's Daughter - by Chibundu Onuzo

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571268917 | ISBN 10: 0571268919

    Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep. A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan
    Azazeel - by Youssef Ziedan

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848874299 | ISBN 10: 1848874294

    Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. The monk, Hypa, embarks on a journey both physical and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
    Running the Rift - by Naomi Benaron

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689040 | ISBN 10: 1851689044

    Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in whic ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo
    An Honourable Man - by Gillian Slovo

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086658 | ISBN 10: 1844086658

    From one of Britains most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England. Beginning in the Sudan and London of 1884, this extraordinary new novel is played out against the shambolic end of the Empire. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241956809 | ISBN 10: 0241956803

    'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.'   Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila (Editor)
    The Granta Book of the African Short Story - by Helon Habila (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847083333 | ISBN 10: 1847083331

    Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinatin ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Hoopoes Go to Heaven by Gaile Parkin
    When Hoopoes Go to Heaven - by Gaile Parkin

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857894113 | ISBN 10: 0857894110

    Ten-year-old Benedict is feeling happy. His family's new home in Swaziland has the most beautiful garden in the whole entire world, teeming with insects, frogs and his favourite cinnamon-coloured birds. Here, crouched in the cool shade of the lucky-b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah
    The Last Gift - by Abdulrazak Gurnah

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408821855 | ISBN 10: 1408821850

    One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the da ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa Junction by Ginny Baily
    Africa Junction - by Ginny Baily

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099552727 | ISBN 10: 0099552728

    A brilliantly constructed first novel following a young woman's quest for redemption set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of modern Africa.  Adele is in a mess. On her own with her young son, struggling to cope with her job as a teacher ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bloodland by Alan Glynn
    Bloodland - by Alan Glynn

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571275441 | ISBN 10: 0571275443

    CONGO: A private security contractor loses it, with deadly consequences. IRELAND: An ex-prime minister struggles to contain a dark secret from his time in office. NEW YORK: A dramatic news story breaks in Paris just as a US senator be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
    Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories - by Ama Ata Aidoo

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780956240194 | ISBN 10: 0956240194

    Ama Ata Aidoo is an iconic African writer who has inspired generations of black and other women writers on the continent and in the Diaspora. Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories, her latest collection of short stories brings together diverse themes t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Open City by Teju Cole
    Open City - by Teju Cole

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571279432 | ISBN 10: 0571279430

    Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
    How to Read the Air - by Dinaw Mengestu

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099521037 | ISBN 10: 0099521032

    Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, Children of the Revolution, earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the Guardian First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in Amer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost of Sani Abacha by Chuma Nwokolo
    The Ghost of Sani Abacha - by Chuma Nwokolo

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9789782190109 | ISBN 10: 9782190101

    Nigerian short stories. A harassed servant plots his grim revenge, a young woman puts a potential boyfriend to the test, a politician in his finest hour finds himself possessed by a begoggled demon. 26 stories of life and love in the aftermath of aut ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
    Anatomy of a Disappearance - by Hisham Matar

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141027500 | ISBN 10: 0141027509

    Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her b ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Delights by Siphiwo Mahala
    African Delights - by Siphiwo Mahala

    £12.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781431402519 | ISBN 10: 1431402516

    African Delights is a unique literary journey through some critical moments in South African history. The journey begins in Sophiatown of the 1950s, one of the most definitive periods in South African urban culture. This part of the book is in dialog ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Lies by Lynn Michell
    White Lies - by Lynn Michell

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780955961830 | ISBN 10: 0955961831

    By 1950, Kenya was on the verge of one of the bloodiest wars of decolonisation fought in Britains twentieth century empire. Britains Gulag.   Eve is dutifully typing her fathers dictated memoirs of his time as a soldier in WWII and in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 by Nadine Gordimer
    Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780747596189 | ISBN 10: 0747596182

    Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and commit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson
    Tiny Sunbirds Far Away - by Christie Watson

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849163750 | ISBN 10: 1849163758

    'Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.'   Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that chang ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Message by Tariq Goddard
    The Message - by Tariq Goddard

    £6.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846948794 | ISBN 10: 1846948797

    Set in a fictional African state in the grip of a civil war provoked by the emergence of The Mahdi, a pretender to the leadership of the Islamic world, The Message is the latest literary thriller from Tariq Goddard, an exciting and topical treatment ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Obscure Logic of the Heart by Priya Basil
    The Obscure Logic of the Heart - by Priya Basil

    £13.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780552773850 | ISBN 10: 0552773859

    A devoted daughter; a secret love; an impossible dilemma...  Lina has always been the apple of her fathers strict eye. When she meets Anil, a wealthy, cultured and decidedly liberal student of architecture from Kenyas Asian community, ... more

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  • Cover image of book What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
    What the Day Owes the Night - by Yasmina Khadra

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099540458 | ISBN 10: 0099540452

    A romance and a tale of friendship and identity, set in the harsh yet mystic landscape of Algeria.  'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'   Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stric ... more

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  • Cover image of book Secret Son by Laila Lalami
    Secret Son - by Laila Lalami

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141042732 | ISBN 10: 0141042737

    When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...  Casablancas stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beneath the Lion
    Beneath the Lion's Gaze - by Maaza Mengiste

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539926 | ISBN 10: 0099539926

    An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopias revolution.  Beneath the Lions Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his m ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun
    A Palace in the Old Village - by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906413750 | ISBN 10: 1906413754

    The international bestseller: From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (Guardian), a novel about the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition and family.  Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As he approac ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unfinished Business by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
    An Unfinished Business - by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Frank Wynne

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809440 | ISBN 10: 1408809443

    A major novel that tackles one of the great taboos of Muslim culture the Shoah.  Rachel and Malrich are the sons of a German father and an Algerian mother. Born in a small village in the Algerian hinterland, they are sent to Paris to be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Lives of Baba Segi
    The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives - by Lola Shoneyin

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846687495 | ISBN 10: 1846687497

    To the dismay of her overbearingly ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even graduates must produce childre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
    Tail of the Blue Bird - by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099526124 | ISBN 10: 0099526123

    A beautiful meditation on the relationship between old and new worlds in developing Africa. Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink ap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories by Dike Okoro (Editor)
    Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories - by Dike Okoro (Editor)

    £19.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781592217199 | ISBN 10: 1592217192

    This anthology aims to represent the best of contemporary African short stories written in English. Familiar names such as Benjamin Kwakye, Tijan Sallah, Zahra Ramij, Freddy Macha, Arja Salafranca, Odun Balogun, Tanure Ojaide, Jackee Budesta Batanda, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spectres by Radwa Ashour
    Spectres - by Radwa Ashour

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906697259 | ISBN 10: 1906697256

    Spectres tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born on the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their days at work, their married and unmarried lives, and the two books they are writing, both called Spectres.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kings of the Water by Mark Behr
    Kings of the Water - by Mark Behr

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349122649 | ISBN 10: 0349122644

    When Michiel Steyn returns to South Africa for his beloved mothers funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Para ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
    Black Mamba Boy - by Nadifa Mohamed

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007315772 | ISBN 10: 0007315775

    For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru by Bessie Head, introduced by Helen Oyeyemi
    When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru - by Bessie Head, introduced by Helen Oyeyemi

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086221 | ISBN 10: 1844086224

    When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, purposeful life. In the village of Golema Mmidi he meets Gilbert, a charismatic Englishman who is trying ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bitter Leaf by Chioma Okereke
    Bitter Leaf - by Chioma Okereke

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086276 | ISBN 10: 1844086275

    Bitter Leaf is a richly textured and intricate novel set in Mannobe, a world that is African in nature but never geographically placed. At the heart of the novel is the village itself and its colourful cast of inhabitants: Babylon, a gifted musician ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goree: Point of Departure by Angela Barry
    Goree: Point of Departure - by Angela Barry

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845231255 | ISBN 10: 1845231252

    A chance encounter at Kennedy Airport with her ex-husband, Saliou Wade, takes Magdalene and their now adult daughter, Khadi, on a visit to him and his new family in Senegal. Magdalene is understandably nervous about the return, remembering the pain o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
    The Winter Vault - by Anne Michaels

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801086 | ISBN 10: 1408801086

    The long-awaited novel from the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces.   Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harare North by Brian Chikwava
    Harare North - by Brian Chikwava

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099526759 | ISBN 10: 0099526751

    When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and an email address for his childhood friend, Shingi. Finessing his way through immigration, he spends a few restless weeks as the very ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O
    Not Untrue and Not Unkind - by Ed O'Loughlin

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141038063 | ISBN 10: 0141038063

    In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (The No.1 Ladies
    Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 10) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349119977 | ISBN 10: 034911997x

    It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswes newest client is the big-shot owner of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
    I Do Not Come to You by Chance - by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753826973 | ISBN 10: 0753826976

    A vivid, warm and very funny debut novel set against the colourful back-drop of modern Nigeria.  Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his dreams. Being the op ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Driver by Maggie Gee
    My Driver - by Maggie Gee

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846590795 | ISBN 10: 1846590795

    Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies out from London to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala's up-mar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
    The Finest Type of English Womanhood - by Rachel Heath

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099532743 | ISBN 10: 0099532743

    Costa Book Awards Shortlist, 2009.  It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell offers her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
    Summertime - by J.M. Coetzee

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099540540 | ISBN 10: 0099540541

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers. A young English biographer is worki ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    The Thing Around Your Neck - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007306213 | ISBN 10: 0007306210

    From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.  In ' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eclipse by Richard North Patterson
    Eclipse - by Richard North Patterson

    £6.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780330454872 | ISBN 10: 0330454870

    In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the countrys corrupt and autocratic leader. Complicating matters further is Okari ... more

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  • Cover image of book See How Much I Love You by Luis Leante
    See How Much I Love You - by Luis Leante

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780714531540 | ISBN 10: 0714531545

    When Montse and Santiago meet as teenagers in 70s Barcelona they have little idea where their summer romance will lead. After they break up, in spite of Montse's pregnancy, Santiago decides to spend his military service as far away from her as p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Infinite Riches by Ben Okri
    Infinite Riches - by Ben Okri

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099540335 | ISBN 10: 0099540339

    In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice.  This ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women
    Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women's Writing Competition 2008 - by Various authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781920196196 | ISBN 10: 1920196196

    Survivors of violence are often forced to flee emotionally and geographically from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. This year, POWA called for entries ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Impostor by Damon Galgut
    The Impostor - by Damon Galgut

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843547839 | ISBN 10: 184354783x

    When Adam moves into the abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning a shadowy figure from his childhood and Cannings enigmatic and beautiful wif ... more

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  • Cover image of book One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors
    One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906523138 | ISBN 10: 1906523134

    A teenage Nigerian girl struggles to shed her cultural roots in the US... An Inuit girl is rowed by her parents to the shore, unaware of the fate that awaits her... A Filipina maid in Hong Kong gets entangled with her employer... The lover of an Afri ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Their Father
    In Their Father's Country - by Anne-Marie Drosso

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846590597 | ISBN 10: 1846590590

    Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of Levantine descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist world. With the early death of their father, the sisters find themselves dependent on others ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
    An Elegy for Easterly - by Petina Gappah

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571246946 | ISBN 10: 057124694x

    A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour brings unexpected riches; a politicians widow quietly stands by a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Human Love by Andrei Makine
    Human Love - by Andrei Makine

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340936788 | ISBN 10: 0340936789

    As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bears witness to mankind at its pitiless worst. Yet he continues to believe in a better world and in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
    The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam - by Lauren Liebenberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844084685 | ISBN 10: 184408468x

    Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers.  Nyree and Cia live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfath ... more

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  • Cover image of book Say You
    Say You're One of Them - by Uwem Akpan

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780349120645 | ISBN 10: 0349120641

    'I see dirty water dripping down the white wall beside me. It is coming from the ceiling. At first, it comes down in two thin lines. The the lines widen and swell into one. Then two more lines come down, in spurts, like little spiders gliding down on ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Final Bet by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
    The Final Bet - by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906697068 | ISBN 10: 190669706x

    Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
    A Carrion Death - by Michael Stanley

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780755344062 | ISBN 10: 0755344065

    A stunning debut crime novel set in Botswana against a backdrop of poachers, witch doctors, diamond smugglers and corruption... They find the first body near a waterhole considered magical by the local bush people. A string of clues suggests tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer
    Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black - by Nadine Gordimer

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593843 | ISBN 10: 0747593841

    The latest collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer.  This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimers countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imagi ... more

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  • Cover image of book What is the What by Dave Eggers
    What is the What - by Dave Eggers

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141015743 | ISBN 10: 0141015748

    This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was separated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu
    Children of the Revolution - by Dinaw Mengestu

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099502739 | ISBN 10: 0099502739

    Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Sepha Stephanos is a man caught between two existences: the one he left behind aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington DC.  Sepha spends ... more

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  • Cover image of book Star of the Morning by Pamela Jooste
    Star of the Morning - by Pamela Jooste

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780552773607 | ISBN 10: 0552773603

    We were coloured girls in a white world that didnt want us. Born on the wrong side of the racial divide in apartheid-torn Cape Town, young sisters Ruby and Rose exist in a world where they are not welcome. As part of the Cape Coloured community ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 8) by Alexander McCall Smith
    The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 8) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780349117737 | ISBN 10: 034911773x

    As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Starbook by Ben Okri
    Starbook - by Ben Okri

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846040818 | ISBN 10: 1846040817

    We are listeners at the oracle. Those who truly hear are touched and changed. At one level, Starbook tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
    Ancestor Stones - by Aminatta Forna

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747585923 | ISBN 10: 074758592x

    A stunning debut novel by the author of The Devil that Danced on the Water.  Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories by Bessie Head & Ngugi  Wa Thiong
    To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories - by Bessie Head & Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

    £11.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615472 | ISBN 10: 1558615474

    These powerful stories by two of Africas most renowned 20th-century authors explore African cultures at the intersection of tradition and modernity, colonialism and independence.   Botswanas preeminent writer Bessie Head and Ngugi wa Thion ... more

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  • Cover image of book Being Here: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa by Compiled by Robin Malan
    Being Here: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa - by Compiled by Robin Malan

    £10.95   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780864866967 | ISBN 10: 0864866968

    Robin Malan's selection of stories about and from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique since 1960, is a vibrant collection, chosen to reflect lived experience of these places in these times u surely the most exciting and most pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coconut by Kopano Matlwa
    Coconut - by Kopano Matlwa

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781770093362 | ISBN 10: 1770093362

    An exciting young voice has emerged that reflects the idiosyncratic nature of our young democracy.  Coconut is a story that deals with growing up as a black child in a white world. It is the story of black youth who grow up in white neighbourhoo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jungfrau and Other Short Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 7th Annual Collection by Mary Watson and others
    Jungfrau and Other Short Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 7th Annual Collection - by Mary Watson and others

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904456629 | ISBN 10: 1904456626

    The winner of the 7th Caine Prize for African Writing is Jungfrau by Mary Watson from South Africa. Her story leads into this lively anthology of short stories from the best writers across the continent. It collects the winner and shortlist together ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whiteman by Tony D
    Whiteman - by Tony D'Souza

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846270505 | ISBN 10: 1846270502

    Young, American, and idealistic, the Whiteman bounds into the Ivory Coast with a deep desire to Make a Difference. But then the NGO's funding dries up and he's stranded, unable to establish a water supply for the village and with plenty of time on hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Half of a Yellow Sun - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007200283 | ISBN 10: 0007200285

    The highly anticipated new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria-Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.During this turbulen ... more

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  • Cover image of book How We Buried Puso by Morabo Morojele
    How We Buried Puso - by Morabo Morojele

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781770090989 | ISBN 10: 1770090983

    How we buried Puso is a novel which deals with themes characteristic of post-colonial African literature - identity, spirituality, community, and Africanness. It examines the impact of exile on the individual and the community, as well as the related ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amina by Mohammed Umar
    Amina - by Mohammed Umar

    £17.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781592214044 | ISBN 10: 1592214045

    This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction - the legal status of Muslim women, the limitation ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Love Stories: An Anthology by Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo
    African Love Stories: An Anthology - by Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780954702366 | ISBN 10: 0954702360

    "African love stories? Is that not some kind of anomaly? This radical collection of short stories, most published in this edition for the first time, aims to debunk the myth about African women as impoverished victims. With origins that span the cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Desertion - by Abdulrazak Gurnah

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747578956 | ISBN 10: 0747578958

    Early one morning in 1889, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet.  That man is Martin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
    The Book of Secrets - by M.G. Vassanji

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781841956862 | ISBN 10: 1841956864

    When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern-day Dar es Salaam, discovers the diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of East Africa and the liasons, feelings and secrets of its peo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Get A Life by Nadine Gordimer
    Get A Life - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747582427 | ISBN 10: 0747582424

    Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a dan ... more

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  • Cover image of book July
    July's People - by Nadine Gordimer

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747578383 | ISBN 10: 0747578389

    For years, it has been what is called a deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refug ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silent Minaret by Ishtiyaq Shukri
    The Silent Minaret - by Ishtiyaq Shukri

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781770092495 | ISBN 10: 1770092498

    Who knew Issa Shamsuddin? Is his disappearance a matter of choice - the next step in a journey of self-imposed exile? Or are there more sinister forces at play? Set in the Western Cape in the years leading up to South Africa's first democratic electi ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 6) by Alexander McCall Smith
    In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 6) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780349117423 | ISBN 10: 034911742x

    Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors.  The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
    The In-Between World of Vikram Lall - by M.G. Vassanji

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841956060 | ISBN 10: 1841956066

    "My name is Vikram Lall. I have the distinction of having been numbered one of Africa's most corrupt men..."  Vikram Lall inhabits an 'in-between world': between his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he loves passionately; between his infamo ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Blinding Absence of Light. by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)
    This Blinding Absence of Light. - by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141022826 | ISBN 10: 0141022825

    In 1971 disaffected student Salim took part in a failed coup to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others he was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccon desert; they were to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly elo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forest of the Pygmies by Isabel Allende
    Forest of the Pygmies - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007199648 | ISBN 10: 0007199643

    From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When National Geographic commissions ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
    The Girl Who Married a Lion - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841956299 | ISBN 10: 1841956295

    How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tree growing out of his head? And how can a woman have children made of wax?  The stories in this delightful collection make these questions seem simple, everyday ones - with, as ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Myths of Origin by Stephen Belcher
    African Myths of Origin - by Stephen Belcher

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780140449457 | ISBN 10: 0140449450

    Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this landmark new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflicts and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boy by Lindsey Collen
    Boy - by Lindsey Collen

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747574675 | ISBN 10: 0747574677

    Krish Burton is seventeen, and he's struggling with the memories of his beloved dead brother, the school exams that he is failing, and with his parents who never call him by his name, instead barking "Boy!" But when he is sent on his first trip alone ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute by Sunjata
    Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute - by Sunjata

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780140447361 | ISBN 10: 0140447369

    Sunjata Keita was the founder of one of the greatest empires of Western Africa. These two epic accounts of his life portray a greedy, slow-witted child - said to have crawled till the age of seven - who grew up as prophecy foretold to become a mighty ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kalahari Typing School for Men (The No.1 Ladies
    The Kalahari Typing School for Men (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780349117041 | ISBN 10: 0349117047

    'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Full Cupboard of Life (The No.1 Ladies
    The Full Cupboard of Life (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 5) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780349117256 | ISBN 10: 034911725x

    Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fianc. For indeed he has other ... more

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  • Cover image of book A is for Ancestors; A Selection of Works from the Caine Prize for African Writing. by Various
    A is for Ancestors; A Selection of Works from the Caine Prize for African Writing. - by Various

    £11.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781770090279 | ISBN 10: 1770090274

    Caine Prize 2003 Winner and Finalists;Yvonne Adhiambo-Owuor (Kenya), Ken Barris (South Africa), George Makana Clark (Zimbabwe), Emmanuel Donala (Congo), Rachelle Greef (South Africa)  African Writers' Workshop Stories 2003; Yvonne Adhiambo-O ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Paradise - by Abdulrazak Gurnah

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780747573999 | ISBN 10: 0747573999

    Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is about to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. B ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Child of an Ancient People by Anour Benmalek
    The Child of an Ancient People - by Anour Benmalek

    £6.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099453697 | ISBN 10: 009945369x

    It is 1872. Lislei is a young French woman escaping from the bloody turmoil of the Paris commune; Kader is an Arab prince fleeing from the revolt of the Saharan tribesmen in Algeria. Together they succeed in boarding an old sailing ship bound for Aus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Morality for Beautiful Girls (The No.1 Ladies
    Morality for Beautiful Girls (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 3) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780349117003 | ISBN 10: 0349117004

    In this thrid volume of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe faces surpreme problems at home and at work.With her detective agenct in financial difficulty, Mmma Ramotswe takes the hard decision to share offi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tears of the Giraffe (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2) by Alexander McCall Smith
    Tears of the Giraffe (The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2) - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780349116655 | ISBN 10: 0349116652

    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories Fly; A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA. by Brenda Cooper (Ed)
    Stories Fly; A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA. - by Brenda Cooper (Ed)

    £10.95   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780864866080 | ISBN 10: 0864866089

    Where is home? How does our identity change when we move to a new country, or when national borders are eroded by globalisation? These are some of the themes of new fiction from African writers living outside the continent.  The writers of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Broken Dreams by Jideofor Adibe
    Broken Dreams - by Jideofor Adibe

    £8.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780954503703 | ISBN 10: 0954503708

    Amid the smouldering tension of impending civil war, Pete Ogwu an his wife Teresa are forced to flee their home in western Nigeria, leaving behind a baby son and their housemaid. Adpoted by Madam Cash, Femi grows upto be an idealistic socialist write ... more

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  • Cover image of book Can We Talk and Other Stories by Shimmer Chinodya
    Can We Talk and Other Stories - by Shimmer Chinodya

    £10.20   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780435912055 | ISBN 10: 0435912054

    A collection of Zimbabwean stories following the transition from childhood to adult life. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life are undermined for Chinodya's characters as they grow up. The disappointments they face reflect a wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
    Anthills of the Savannah - by Chinua Achebe

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186900 | ISBN 10: 0141186909

    'Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass.' Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppressi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
    The Map of Love - by Ahdaf Soueif

    £9.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780747545637 | ISBN 10: 0747545634

    In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, an Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause.  A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, and American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sha ... more

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