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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 22 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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 (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: 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
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£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£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£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£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£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
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 (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
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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