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Cockroach Dance,The

Cockroach Dance,The

Dusman Gonzaga lives in a squalid apartment block overrun by poverty and cockroaches. The crumbling building is owned by Tumbo Kubwa, a mindless slum lord with a heart of stone, and occupied by a strange mix of characters; from garbage collectors to hawkers, from conmen to witch doctors, from wise m
A$ 16.13
Crossbones

Crossbones

After a long absence, an ageing Jeebleh has returned to visit old friends in his beloved Mogadiscio, accompanied by his son in law, Malik. But instead of the chaos Jeebleh remembers from a decade ago, the two are greeted by an eerie calm, enforced by white-robed figures bearing whips. Then Malik’s b
A$ 93.91
Cry Freedom: The Legendary True Story of Steve Biko and the Friendship that Defied Apartheid

Cry Freedom: The Legendary True Story of Steve Biko and the Friendship that Defied Apartheid

Under South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working tirelessly for years to undermine the system when he meets white journalist Donald Woods. Initially suspicious of Biko and his motives, Woods finds himself united with Biko in common cause after Biko reveals to
A$ 42.13
Cry of Winnie Mandela, The

Cry of Winnie Mandela, The

A group of African women at a specific period in Southern Africa s history find their family life under pressure from capitalist modernity and apartheid. This is a deeply humane, sympathetic and generous book on the one hand but is unflinching in its honesty. Ndebele represents a rare breed of write
A$ 31.30
Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country

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, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic wo
A$ 43.34
Cutting For Stone

Cutting For Stone

Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them
A$ 43.34
Daily Assortment Of Astonishing Things ,The

Daily Assortment Of Astonishing Things ,The

Now entering its seventeenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in Engliprice shown whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection brings together the five price shownortlisted stories, along with stories
A$ 39.73
Dance of the Jakaranda

Dance of the Jakaranda

Set in the shadow of Kenya’s independence from Great Britain, Dance of the Jakaranda reimagines the special circumstances that brought black, brown and white men together to lay the railroad that heralded the birth of a nation. The novel traces the lives and loves of three men-preacher Richard Turnb
A$ 45.51
Dear Ijeawele

Dear Ijeawele

New York Times Best Seller A Skimm Reads Pick An NPR Best Book of 2017
A$ 27.69
Death and the King’s Horseman

Death and the King’s Horseman

“The action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe” Daily Telegraph
A$ 39.73
Decolonising the Mind

Decolonising the Mind

Ngugi describes this book as “a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in the teaching of literature.
A$ 47.20
Desertion

Desertion

When a chance encounter finds Martin Pearce meeting a beautiful Kenyan woman, there is little either can do to express their love for each other; for this is Zanzibar in the 1890s, where interracial affairs are strictly forbidden as the country heads towards independence – and revolution.
A$ 39.73
Devil on the Cross

Devil on the Cross

The latest addition to the Penguin African Writers Series: the great Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful fictional critique of capitalism
A$ 58.99
Diary of a Bad Year

Diary of a Bad Year

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia’s complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: How should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their states involvement in an
A$ 39.73
Disgrace: A Novel

Disgrace: A Novel

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to press
A$ 43.34
DOUBLE COMFORT SAFARI CLUB,THE

DOUBLE COMFORT SAFARI CLUB,THE

* Mma Ramotswe’s wonderful eleventh novel Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest.
A$ 38.29
Dragonfly Sea, The H/C

Dragonfly Sea, The H/C

From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world–a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mothe
A$ 69.59
Drunk

Drunk

It starts with a girl. Girls actually. Its only fair that it starts with a girl, no? Only problem is that most stories that start with a girl always end up with someone banging on the door saying; I just want to talk. This is not one of those stories. This one is about Larry. Mad Larry. He drinks. H
A$ 26.48
Dukawalla And Other Stories

Dukawalla And Other Stories

In this collection of stories, Pheroze Nowrojee takes his readers on journeys into varied Kenyan, East African, and other landscapes, delving into lives and personalities equally diverse. Whether actively transforming their surroundings or being transformed by what is around them, his complex charac
A$ 36.12
Dust

Dust

Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya. But the peace they seek is hard to find: the murder has stirred deeply buried memories of colonial
A$ 50.33
Dust- UK

Dust- UK

From a breathtaking new voice, winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya and the struggling nation around it–a story of power and deceit and survival, grief and madness, unrequited love, sacrifice and perseverance.
A$ 40.69
Easy Motion Tourist

Easy Motion Tourist

Guy Collins, a British hack, is hunting for an election story in Lagos. A decision to check out a local bar in Businessclaud Island turns out badly – a mutilated female body is discarded close by and Collins is picked up as a suspect. In the murk of a hot, groaning and murky police station, Collins
A$ 36.12
EDUCATION OF A BRITISH PROTECTED CHILD,THE

EDUCATION OF A BRITISH PROTECTED CHILD,THE

A collection of autobiographical essays from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart
A$ 57.79
Elsewhere, Home

Elsewhere, Home

Intimate stories of longing and exile by one of our finest contemporary writers.
A$ 38.29
Everything Good Will Come

Everything Good Will Come

Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule–though t
A$ 38.29
Famished Road, The

Famished Road, The

He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering,
A$ 46.95
Fishermen,The

Fishermen,The

In a small town in Western Nigeria, four young brothers – the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen – use their strict fathers’ absence from home to go fishing at forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophe
A$ 50.33
FOOLS AND OTHER STORIES

FOOLS AND OTHER STORIES

Fools & Other Stories is an intricate and subtle collection that deals with the formative experiences of growing up in a Johannesburg township during the apartheid years.‘Fools’, the title story of the collection, is a tale of generations in the struggle against oppression. Zamani, a disgraced middl
A$ 43.34
Foreign Gods Inc.

Foreign Gods Inc.

Foreign Gods Inc. tells the story of Ike Uzondu, a New York based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of Ngene – an ancient war deity from his home village-and to sell it to a high end Manhattan gallery. His journey, by turns comical and grim, offers a meditation on the dreams, prom
A$ 43.34
From a Crooked Rib

From a Crooked Rib

Written with complete conviction from a woman’s point of view, Nuruddin Farah’s spareprice shownocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rur
A$ 93.91
GHOST OF SANI ABACHA, THE

GHOST OF SANI ABACHA, THE

26 stories of life and love in the aftermath of autocracy, delivered with wit and insight by one of Africa’s most incisive writers…
A$ 28.90
Gifts

Gifts

The second novel in Farah’s acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts tell the story of Duniya, a single mother working at the hospital in Mogadiscio, Somalia’s capital city. Times are hard but they get even more complicated when Duniya’s rebellious daughter brings home a mysterious foundling infant
A$ 66.21
Glittering City

Glittering City

‘”Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night”‘
A$ 7.22
God Dies by the Nile and Other Stories

God Dies by the Nile and Other Stories

Collected for the first time in one complete volume, God Dies by the Nile and other Novels are three of El Saadawi’s most remarkable tales of tragedy, revenge, despair, and violence. Powerful and moving, El Saadawi masterfully captures the personal struggles of women in a society steeped in hypocris
A$ 81.87
God’s Bits of Wood

God’s Bits of Wood

In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers’ perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author’s other novels include “Xala” and “Black Docker”.
A$ 13.73
Goddess of Mtwara and Other Stories, The

Goddess of Mtwara and Other Stories, The

The leading African literary award, known as the African Booker, named after the Booker Prize founder, Michael Caine. Now entering its eighteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africas leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in Engliprice shown wh
A$ 39.73
Gonjon Pin & Other Stories,The

Gonjon Pin & Other Stories,The

A last swim in a condemned pool leads a troubled teenager and her grandmother to common ground… A young woman finds it so hard to make her way in the city that she takes a drastic decision…A couple receive relationship counselling from a strange family grouping…A boy meets two exiles from Rwanda – o
A$ 39.73
GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE, THE

GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE, THE

The eighth instalment of Alexander McCall Smith’s wonderful No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. M
A$ 38.29
Hairdresser Of Harare, The

Hairdresser Of Harare, The

Voted an Observer Top Ten African Book 2012 Vimbai is the star hairdresser of her salon, the smartest in Harare, Zimbabwe, until the enigmatic Dumisani appears. Losing many of her best customers to this good-looking, smooth-talking young man, Vimbai fears for her job, vital if she’s to provide for h
A$ 79.45
Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work for Odenigbo, a radical university professor. Soon they are joined by Olanna, a young woman who has abandoned a life of privilege to live with her charismatic lover.
A$ 38.29
Happiness, Like Water

Happiness, Like Water

“Astonishing. Okparanta s narrators render their stories with such strength and intimacy, such lucidity and composure, that in each and every case the truths of their lives detonate deep inside the reader s heart, with the power and force of revelation.” Paul Harding Here are Nigerian women at home
A$ 51.77
Happiness: A Novel

Happiness: A Novel

London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide–Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna’s unerring powers of observati
A$ 19.14
Happy Marriage, The

Happy Marriage, The

“Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco’s greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion.” —The Guardian
A$ 64.77
Harare North

Harare North

When he lands in London, our unnamed hero carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friendprice showningi. He ends up in Shingi’s Brixton squat where the inhabitants function at various levels of desperation. Shingi struggles to find meaningfu
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Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in Plain Sight

When Bella, a fashion photographer living in Rome, learns of her beloved half-brother’s murderprice showne travels to Nairobi to care for her niece and nephew. But when their mother resurfaces, reasserting her maternal rights and bringing with her a gale of chaos and confusion that mirrors the deepening po
A$ 54.17
Hired Man, The

Hired Man, The

Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the windows, glass darkened with dirt, today stands open, and th
A$ 21.07
Hold

Hold

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and familyprice showname and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.
A$ 38.29
Homegoing

Homegoing

Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway Award Winner of the NBCC’s John Leonard Award A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time, Businessclaud.com, Harper’s Bazaar, San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Esquire, Elle, Paste, Entertainment Weekly,
A$ 38.29