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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£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
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£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
View book details£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
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£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
View book details£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
View book details£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 country’s corrupt and autocratic leader. Complicating matters further is Okari’ ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141010076 | ISBN 10: 014101007x
In the small Nigerian village of Keti live Mamo and LaMamo, twin sons of a domineering father. When one day the boys try and escape the village, only LaMamo succeeds – and in time becomes a soldier well-versed in the ways of life and death. ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141023380 | ISBN 10: 0141023384
Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - ... more
View book details£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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