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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Last Seen In Lapaz by Kwei Quartey
    Last Seen In Lapaz - by Kwei Quartey

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Moroccan Daughter by Deborah Rodriguez
    The Moroccan Daughter - by Deborah Rodriguez

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Kintu - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786074430 | ISBN 10: 1786074435

    An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda's troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan.   The breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
    The Hundred Wells of Salaga - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

    £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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  • Cover image of book Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
    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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  • Cover image of book Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa by Efemia Chela (Editor)
    Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa - by Efemia Chela (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Swing Time by Zadie Smith
    Swing Time - by Zadie Smith

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Day Ends Like Any Day by Timothy Ogene
    The Day Ends Like Any Day - by Timothy Ogene

    £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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  • Cover image of book Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)
    Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara - by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 by Various authors
    The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 - by Various authors

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila (Editor)
    The Granta Book of the African Short Story - by Helon Habila (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
    Anatomy of a Disappearance - by Hisham Matar

    £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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  • Cover image of book This Blinding Absence of Light. by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)
    This Blinding Absence of Light. - by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Linda Coverdale translator)

    £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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