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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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: 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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£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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£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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£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: 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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: 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: 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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: 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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 (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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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 (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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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: 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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: 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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