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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
£14.99 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780241618257 | ISBN 10: 0241618258
'Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arr ... more
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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: 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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£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 (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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£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. Â Check-in... Lovers ... 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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£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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£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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£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: 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
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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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£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, doesn’t remember her older sister and dreams about having a ... 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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£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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£9.99 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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
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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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£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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£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 (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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