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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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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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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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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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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 Britain�s twentieth century empire.� Britain�s Gulag. Eve is dutifully typing her father�s dictated memoirs of his time as a soldier in WWII and in ... more
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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 father�s strict eye. When she meets Anil, a wealthy, cultured and decidedly liberal student of architecture from Kenya�s Asian community, ... more
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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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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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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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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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