African Fiction
God Dies By The Nile
$24.95 (Paperback book / Zed Books )
Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and ... More »
Red Strangers
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Red Strangers tells of the coming of the British (the Red Strangers) to East Africa in the late 1800s. Following the lives of three generations of a Kikuyu family, Huxley's magical tale immerses the reader in the languag... More »
Book Of Secrets
$22.95 (Paperback book / Canongate )
Winner of the first Giller Prize for Canadian fiction in 1994, The Book of Secrets is an outstanding historical novel set in East Africa.
When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern day Dar es Salaam, d... More »
Wizard Of The Crow
$27.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In exile for more than twenty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in WIZA... More »
The Famished Road
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Purple Hibiscus
$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected i... More »
The Grass Is Singing
$27.95 (Paperback book / Paladin )
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Things Fall Apart
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo retur... More »
Cry The Beloved Country
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, u... More »
Power Of One
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
First with your head and then with your heart . . .
So says Hoppie Groenwald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of ad... More »
The Conservationist
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly i... More »
Good Doctor
$22.95 (Paperback book / 841 Broadway New York Ny 10003 Usa )
Laurance Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When ... More »
My Mothers Lovers
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Atlantic Books )
Once it seemed to Kathleen Healy that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big game hunter and knitting devotee, who once boxed three rounds with Ernest Hemingway, she would land her plane wherever... More »
Palace Walk Cairo Trilogy Book One
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Swan )
PALACE WALK is the first volume of the celebrated 'Cairo Trilogy', the story of 20th century Egypt told through the eyes of the Al Jawad family. A sweeping family saga crossing three generations, the trilogy is set in th... More »
Palace Walk Cairo Trilogy One
$25.95 (Paperback book / Doubleday )
The bestselling first volume of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy is being published in paperback to coincide with the hardcover release of Palace of Desire, the second book. His "masterwork" is... More »