Search Results for ‘Africa’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Novels’ - 10 matches found

Collected African Stories

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

Hideous Kinky

In Esther Freud's 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...

Jock of the Bushveld

Percy FitzPatrick's 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...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

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

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...

The Yacoubian Building

Highly acclaimed upon its initial publication, Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of...

Things Fall Apart

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's 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 Last King of Scotland

Giles Foden’s first novel The Last King of Scotland 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...

Gem Squash Tokoloshe

Rachel Zadok’s first novel Gem Squash Tokoloshe 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...

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...