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The Outsider
Albert Camus

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

In his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the predicament of the individual who is prepared to face the benign indifference of the universe courageously and alone. Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bach... Buy or find out more 


God Dies By The Nile
Nawal Saadawi

$29.00 – 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 ... Buy or find out more 



Map Of Love
Ahdaf Soueif

$0.00 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

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, an American divorcee and a des... Buy or find out more 


Red Strangers
Elspeth Huxley

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Epic in its scale, Red Strangers spans four generations of Kikuyu family in Africa and their relationship with European settlers, nicknamed "red" strangers because of their sunburns. Huxley's engrossing portrait of a Ken... Buy or find out more 



Book Of Secrets
M.G. Vassanji

$22.95 – Paperback book / Canongate

The Book of Secretsis a spellbinding novel of generations and the sweep of history which begins in 1988 in Dar es Salaam when the 1913 diary of a British colonial officer is found in a shopkeeper’s back room. The diary e... Buy or find out more 


Wizard Of The Crow
Thiongo Wa Ngugi

$32.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers. Commencing in “our times” and set in the fictional “Free Rep... Buy or find out more 



The Famished Road
Ben Okri

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narra... Buy or find out more 


Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

$19.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

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... Buy or find out more 



The Grass Is Singing
Doris Lessing

$16.95 – Paperback book / Paladin

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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

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Cry The Beloved Country
Alan Paton

$12.95 – 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... Buy or find out more 


Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to s... Buy or find out more 



Power Of One
Bryce Courtenay

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

First with your head and then with your heart&So says Hoppie Groenewald, 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 adv... Buy or find out more 


 

The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

$23.95$13.95 – 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... Buy or find out more 



The Good Doctor
Damon Galgut

$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 ... Buy or find out more 


My Mothers Lovers
Christopher Hope

$24.95 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books

One of the literary novels of 2006 is now in paperback: Christopher Hope has written an epic tragicomedy, as dark as the European romancing of Africa.Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it ... Buy or find out more 



Red Dust
Gillian Slovo

$22.95 – Trade paperback / Virago

In a small dusty South African town, three people, returning after many years away, are about to meet their pasts. From New York comes top lawyer Sarah; from jail, and in chains, comes ex-deputy policeman, Dirk Hendricke... Buy or find out more 


Quest
Wilbur Smith

$0.00 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

Egypt has been struck by a series of terrible plagues, killing its crops and crippling its people.

Then the ultimate disaster befalls the kingdom: The Nile fails.

In desperation, the Pharaoh sends the warlock Taita, wi... Buy or find out more 



Palace Walk Cairo Trilogy Book One
Naguib Mahfouz

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Swan

A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain’s occupation of Egypt immed... Buy or find out more 


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