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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349015545 | ISBN 10: 0349015546
‘AN OUTSTANDING DEBUT’ CHERIE JONES, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House
‘VIVID AND AUTHENTIC’ LEONE ROSS, author of This One Sky Day
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571372683 | ISBN 10: 0571372686
‘Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.’ @savidgereads
‘Say hello to the book of the summer’ @bettysbooksuk
‘Fantastic... I cannot put it down.’ @thebibliotucker
Have you fallen for this international bestselling novelist’s sizzli ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241981795 | ISBN 10: 0241981794
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE REVOLUTIONARY DARK STAR TRILOGY IS HERE!
Booker Prize-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology and fantasy to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch and a mystery w ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804172735 | ISBN 10: 1804172731
Tales from writers with Latinx, Caribbean, Asian, African, Arabic, North American, East European origins, and more, challenge the reader with stories that spill out into space, parallel realms or just hidden in plain sight. The stories explore the wo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786188588 | ISBN 10: 1786188589
Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking — breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories t ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911648277 | ISBN 10: 1911648276
An adoptee leverages her new parents to fast track her fortunes. A sword-wielding teenager navigates a crush at Comic-Con. A jaded PR man tries to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa. A mother and daughter search for spiritual meaning in the midst ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780099587446 | ISBN 10: 0099587440
'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon James
White skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASS
Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has tu ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781409193746 | ISBN 10: 1409193748
"A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers."(Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie.)
Lost love. Forbidden Love. Unrequited love. Tenderness. Desire. Ro ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838386047 | ISBN 10: 1838386041
Irish Times Books to watch out for in 2021
Sunday Times The five hot new books to read on your post-vax vacation
Culture Fly Must-read books for summer
Glasgow Herald 25 best books to read this summer
Jamaica, 1968: Erna Mullings’ life ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472268792 | ISBN 10: 1472268792
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers.
For Wi ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781839644801 | ISBN 10: 183964480x
A deluxe edition of new writing and neglected perspectives. Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B.
... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529115499 | ISBN 10: 1529115493
March 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch. A fisherman sings to himself, waiting for a catch - but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn't expect. A beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid ha ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077103 | ISBN 10: 1786077108
From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice
A TIME MAGAZINE 'MUST READ BOOK OF 2019'
LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020
Patsy yearns to es ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241981856 | ISBN 10: 0241981859
"Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Car ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781087800 | ISBN 10: 1781087806
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or H ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788549615 | ISBN 10: 1788549619
One of 2019's most anticipated novels in The Times, Irish Times and Guardian.
"Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power"(Marlon James, ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241394502 | ISBN 10: 0241394503
"Once I started reading Travellers, I couldn't stop. With power and control, it plunges the reader into a maze of lives that crisscross between Africa and Europe. Refugees and not only refugees hungering for the north, pushing their way through the b ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910553725 | ISBN 10: 1910553727
This is the story of Dante Brookes, a young man growing up in London in the late seventies and early eighties when sound systems ruled the party scene for young, Black British youths of Caribbean heritage. He navigates the loss of friends, poli ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683320 | ISBN 10: 1999683323
A searing novel of love, judgement and sacrifice and the powerful bonds forged in the crucible of refugee camp life from an internationally-acclaimed writer.
Saba, the novel’s heroine, arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young gi ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472239631 | ISBN 10: 1472239636
A stunning collection of short stories from Caine-Prize shortlisted and Commonwealth Writer's Prize winner Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky has been described as 'luminous' (Roxane Gay) 'mesmerising' (Ayobami Adebayo) ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780143131878 | ISBN 10: 0143131877
The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community.
Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Id ... more
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£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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£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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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781617754357 | ISBN 10: 1617754358
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. Now, ... more
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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474603614 | ISBN 10: 1474603610
From Kei Miller, the winner of the 2014 Forward Prize, a magical and haunting novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica.
It is 11 April 1982 and a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071248 | ISBN 10: 178607124x
A finalist for the New York Public Library Fiction Award
A Grand Prix Littéraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers Selection
In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a m ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857053350 | ISBN 10: 0857053353
The spellbinding new novel by the Goncourt-winning, International Booker-shortlisted author of Three Strong Women.
Clarisse Rivire's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is ... more
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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780748498 | ISBN 10: 1780748493
With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, this stunning debut is set in Jamess native Jamaica.
On a day beginning with a bad omen - black vultures, locally called John Crows ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780747989 | ISBN 10: 1780747985
Caryl Phillipss The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bi ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784081485 | ISBN 10: 1784081485
'The Age of Magic has begun.
Unveil your eyes.'
Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the tower ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780746357 | ISBN 10: 1780746350
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: WIRED
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£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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£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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£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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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780803271487 | ISBN 10: 0803271484
Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visit ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846883125 | ISBN 10: 1846883121
Nine-year-old Skid Beaumonts family is stuck in the mud. Following his fathers decision to relocate and build a new home, based on a drunken vision that New Orleans would rapidly expand eastwards into the wetlands as a result of the Seventies oil ... more
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£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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£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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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604864977 | ISBN 10: 1604864974
Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) subverting the genre since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurou ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780873084 | ISBN 10: 1780873085
Paama, who is a great cook, has returned to her family after 10 years of marriage to the gluttonous Ansige, but two years later he hires the master tracker Kwame to find her. Kwame needs the money to finance his own wanderlust and reluctantly takes t ... more
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£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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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845231859 | ISBN 10: 1845231856
Angel covers the turbulent years during which Grenada both found and lost itself, from 1951, when workers revolted against the power of the white owners of the sugar and cocoa estates, to 1983 when the US invasion put an end to a bold social experime ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845231798 | ISBN 10: 1845231791
From the 1930s to the new century, Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins most memorable characters, negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz. As a child there is the shame of poverty and illegitimacy, and there are the hazards of sectarian ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780753828083 | ISBN 10: 0753828081
A young Jamaican woman with a gift of prophecy embarks on a journey that will take her from a leper colony, to revivalist meetings, then to England.
Once upon a time in Jamaica a young woman went somewhere that no one had visited for yea ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780955961854 | ISBN 10: 0955961858
Two babies are born five minutes apart in a UK hospital.
Immersed in her rich Nigerian heritage, Yewande grows up able to hear her ancestors voices a double edged sword that heightens her spiritual awareness, but alienates her sister ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845231057 | ISBN 10: 1845231058
When his father dies in suspicious circumstances, Ferron Morgans trauma is increased by the conflict within his family and his fathers friends over whether the death is the result of medical negligence or a political assassination. Ferron has lived ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099523949 | ISBN 10: 0099523949
Before Efe came to Belgium, she imagined castles and clean streets and snow as white as salt. Belgium, ...a country wey dey Europe. Next door to London'.
At the house on Zwarterzusterstraat four very different women have made their way from Afri ... more
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£17.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780813927671 | ISBN 10: 0813927676
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Ma ... more
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£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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£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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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099512929 | ISBN 10: 0099512920
Dreams from the Endz is the story of twenty-four Ahlme, who is spirited, sassy and wise but has more problems than she knows how to deal with. Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year ... more
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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823118 | ISBN 10: 075382311x
In the small Jamaican village of Watergate a thief stirs - no fewer than three pairs of Tessa Walcott's panties have gone missing.
When Imelda Richardson suggests forming a Neighbourhood Watch to curb the crimewave, she couldn't possibly have forse ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823446 | ISBN 10: 0753823446
Easy Rawlins comes home from work and finds more trouble on his doorstep than most men encounter in a lifetime. A friend, fearing for his life, has lfet his daughter at Easy's house and vanished without a trace.
Worse, someone else important ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906190132 | ISBN 10: 1906190135
In the years after the Second World War, many West Indians came to live and work in Britain following the recruitment drives of such institutions as London Transport and the National Health Service. Many had also served in the British Armed Forces du ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9789768184979 | ISBN 10: 9768184973
Bestselling author, successful songwriter, beauty queen wife, fame and fortune at the age of twenty-eight; handsome and well-endowed, Charlie seemed to have it made...or did he?
Dance Tough Guys is the riveting story of Charlie's incredible ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593102 | ISBN 10: 0747593108
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a woman singing in a voice both eerie and enthralling at their farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja ... more
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£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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£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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£10.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781770095267 | ISBN 10: 1770095268
An extraordinary novel of breathtaking beauty, which follows in the tradition of Buchi Emecheta and Chris Abani. Winner of the 2007 Ken Saro-Wiwa Award.
Ngozi Akachi is a somewhat regular village girl of exquisite beauty, light-skinned and h ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780349117720 | ISBN 10: 0349117721
Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747578864 | ISBN 10: 0747578869
A stunning first novel about spirits, twins and an extraordinary little girl.
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141023380 | ISBN 10: 0141023384
Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan.But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - ... more
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£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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£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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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780749082437 | ISBN 10: 0749082437
"She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into - the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world." But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney descendents of t ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780753819579 | ISBN 10: 0753819570
Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-piblished author, married several times, she has lived a life full of adventure. But now it is time for her to explore new territory. She leaves her lover Yolo and embarks on a mesmerising journey down th ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£17.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781551521589 | ISBN 10: 155152158x
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour.
Stories of imagine ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£11.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780292705081 | ISBN 10: 0292705085
These stories, filled with nostalgia and the bitterness of exile, deal with Yemenis caught between differing cultures. Civil war and labor migration affect men abroad, women left behind, and children raised without fathers. The richness of Yemeni cul ... more
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£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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