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Zainab Takes New York - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

£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
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All Men Want to Know - by Nina Bouraoui

£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
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The Moroccan Daughter - by Deborah Rodriguez

£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
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She Would Be King - by Wayétu Moore

£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911590132 | ISBN 10: 1911590138

In the west African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she survives to discover a new life with a group of African American settlers in the colony of Mon ... more
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Kintu - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

£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. The breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 ... more
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A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali - by Gil Courtemanche

£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
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Dance of the Jakaranda - by Peter Kimani

£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
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Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa - by Efemia Chela (Editor)

£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
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Swing Time - by Zadie Smith

£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. Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abo ... more
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The Day Ends Like Any Day - by Timothy Ogene

£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
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Segu - by Maryse Condé, translated by Barbara Bray

£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241293515 | ISBN 10: 0241293510

The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty. It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika ... more
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The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction - by Raph Cormack & Max Shmookler (Editors)

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583720 | ISBN 10: 1905583729

Featuring Bushra al-Fadil, Isa al-Hilu, Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Arthur Gabriel Yak, Hammour Ziada, Ahmed al-Malik, Bawadir Bashir, Mamoun Eltlib, Rania Mamoun & Ali al-Makk Translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes, Raph Cormack, Mohammed Ghalayeini, ... more
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Traces of Sandalwood - by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Mir�

£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
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Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara - by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)

£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
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The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician - by Tendai Huchu

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910409985 | ISBN 10: 1910409987

Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain. The Magistrate tries to create new memories and roots, fusing a wandering exploration of Edinbu ... more
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The Dictator's Last Night - by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Julian Evans

£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910477137 | ISBN 10: 1910477133

In this gripping imagining of the last hours of President Gaddafi, Yasmina Khadra provides us with fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most complex and controversial figures of recent history. �People say I am a megalomaniac. It ... more
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The Book of Memory - by Petina Gappah

£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
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Beasts of No Nation - by Uzodinma Iweala

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473625556 | ISBN 10: 1473625556

Official tie-in to the Netflix Original Film featuring Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre). Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are re ... more
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Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 - by Various authors

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262284 | ISBN 10: 1780262280

The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 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
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From Pasta to Pigfoot - by Frances Mensah Williams

£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909762206 | ISBN 10: 1909762202

From Pasta to Pigfoot is a contemporary, multi-cultural novel that tells the story of Faye Bonsu, a pasta-loving, underachieving PA whose upbringing in leafy Hampstead, London has given her little opportunity to understand her African heritage. ... more
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Our Musseque - by Jos� Luandino Vieira, translated by Robin Patterson

£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910213070 | ISBN 10: 1910213071

Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, sho ... more
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A Bit of Difference - by Sefi Atta

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007536108 | ISBN 10: 0007536100

Deola Bello is tired of London, but she�s not ready to give up on life. When her charity job takes her home to Nigeria, her thoughts turn to the future, as she questions whether her peripatetic existence is still right for her. Deola encount ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781471115301 | ISBN 10: 1471115305

It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. � Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast refugee camp she was ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571316915 | ISBN 10: 0571316913

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terr ... more
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£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
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The Palm Wine Drinkard - by Amos Tutuola

£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571311538 | ISBN 10: 0571311539

This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the compl ... more
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Jebel Marra - by Michelle Green

£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781905583546 | ISBN 10: 1905583540

In 2005, the poet Michelle Green spent six months working for a humanitarian aid agency in West Darfur. Her job was to navigate a complex web of government regulations and domestic logistics so that her colleagues, Sudanese and international, could d ... more
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The Lure of the Honey Bird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia - by Elizabeth Laird

£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846972461 | ISBN 10: 1846972469

In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tank ... more
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The Spider King's Daughter - by Chibundu Onuzo

£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571268917 | ISBN 10: 0571268919

Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep.� A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slu ... more
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When Hoopoes Go to Heaven - by Gaile Parkin

£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857894113 | ISBN 10: 0857894110

Ten-year-old Benedict is feeling happy. His family's new home in Swaziland has the most beautiful garden in the whole entire world, teeming with insects, frogs and his favourite cinnamon-coloured birds. Here, crouched in the cool shade of the lucky-b ... more
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Bloodland - by Alan Glynn

£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571275441 | ISBN 10: 0571275443

CONGO: A private security contractor loses it, with deadly consequences. � IRELAND: An ex-prime minister struggles to contain a dark secret from his time in office. � NEW YORK: A dramatic news story breaks in Paris just as a US senator be ... more
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Anatomy of a Disappearance - by Hisham Matar

£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
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The Message - by Tariq Goddard

£6.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846948794 | ISBN 10: 1846948797

Set in a fictional African state in the grip of a civil war provoked by the emergence of The Mahdi, a pretender to the leadership of the Islamic world, The Message is the latest literary thriller from Tariq Goddard, an exciting and topical treatment ... more
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Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories - by Dike Okoro (Editor)

£19.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781592217199 | ISBN 10: 1592217192

This anthology aims to represent the best of contemporary African short stories written in English. Familiar names such as Benjamin Kwakye, Tijan Sallah, Zahra Ramij, Freddy Macha, Arja Salafranca, Odun Balogun, Tanure Ojaide, Jackee Budesta Batanda, ... more
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Kings of the Water - by Mark Behr

£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349122649 | ISBN 10: 0349122644

When Michiel Steyn returns to South Africa for his beloved mother�s funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Para ... more
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Bitter Leaf - by Chioma Okereke

£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086276 | ISBN 10: 1844086275

Bitter Leaf is a richly textured and intricate novel set in Mannobe, a world that is African in nature but never geographically placed. At the heart of the novel is the village itself and its colourful cast of inhabitants: Babylon, a gifted musician ... more
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The Final Bet - by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

£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
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Star of the Morning - by Pamela Jooste

£6.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780552773607 | ISBN 10: 0552773603

We were coloured girls in a white world that didn�t want us. � Born on the wrong side of the racial divide in apartheid-torn Cape Town, young sisters Ruby and Rose exist in a world where they are not welcome. As part of the Cape Coloured community ... more
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Ancestor Stones - by Aminatta Forna

£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747585923 | ISBN 10: 074758592x

A stunning debut novel by the author of The Devil that Danced on the Water. Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains ... more
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Coconut - by Kopano Matlwa

£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
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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall - by M.G. Vassanji

£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841956060 | ISBN 10: 1841956066

"My name is Vikram Lall. I have the distinction of having been numbered one of Africa's most corrupt men..." Vikram Lall inhabits an 'in-between world': between his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he loves passionately; between his infamo ... more
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Forest of the Pygmies - by Isabel Allende

£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
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Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute - by Sunjata

£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
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Anthills of the Savannah - by Chinua Achebe

£9.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186900 | ISBN 10: 0141186909

'Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass.' Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppressi ... more
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The Map of Love - by Ahdaf Soueif

£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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