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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 26 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780751574609 | ISBN 10: 0751574600
The brand new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.  In Morocco, behind the ancient walls of the medina, secrets will be revealed... Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home in Morocco ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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. Â The breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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. Â Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abo ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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, doesn’t remember her older sister and dreams about having a ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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