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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
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£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
View book details£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 politician’s widow quietly stands by a ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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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