Search Results for ‘Africa’, ‘Fiction’ - 10 matches found

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Snows of Kilimanjaro contains some of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular early works of fiction. In all these stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight...

Things Fall Apart

First published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age's defining books - the book that marked African independence and in one leap created a powerful, vivid Nigerian literature.
The novel...

Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Rachel Zadok’s first novel takes its title from a chant mumbled by Faith, a young white girl living in mid-eighties South Africa at the height of apartheid on a drought-stricken farm. At the age of...

The Abyssinian Chronicles

Moses Isegawa’s first novel is a coming-of-age tale set in Idi Amin’s Uganda. A grandfather, father and son form a tripod of characters to represent the traditional order, the chaos of transition and...

Collected African Stories

Stunning new edition of this classic African story collection, by Nobel-Prize winner Doris Lessing.
In this superb volume of African stories, Doris Lessing paints a magnificent portrait of the country...

Half of a Yellow Sun

"Half of a Yellow Sun" is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel; set in 1960s Nigeria, a time of vicious civil war when well over a million people died.
Her three main characters are each drawn into...

Hideous Kinky

Two little girls are taken by their feckless young mother to Morocco on a '60s pilgrimage of self-discovery. And while she immerses herself in the Sufi religion, her children seek something more solid...

The Yacoubian Building

Highly acclaimed upon its initial publication, “The Yacoubian Building” is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated...

Jock of the Bushveld

“Jock of the Bushveld” is a marvelous tribute to the life of the 1880s in the outposts of the agrarian Transvaal, this complete edition includes for the first time the author's "Postscript" and "The...

The Last King of Scotland

Giles Foden’s first novel is told from the point of view of Nicholas Garrigan, a young Scottish doctor, who comes to Uganda when he accepts a position with the Ministry of Health. His arrival in Kampala...