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- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1950s
Stepping off the boat in Mombasa, eighteen-year-old Rachel Fullsmith stands on Kenyan soil for the first time in six years. She has come home. But when Rachel reaches the family farm at the end of the dusty Rift Valley...
- Location(s): Kenya, Norway
- Genre(s): Crime, Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose … until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo Detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim’s Kenyan scientist...
- Location(s): East Africa, Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring prisoner-of-war and escape adventures of the past century. In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Big game hunter Richard Keeton unexpectedly finds himself in line to inherit a British Lordship, but with the family’s wealth in tatters Richard cannot afford the lifestyle commensurate with his pending title. Hell-bent on restoring riches, Richard realizes he...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s,
WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham — aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s....
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1995-2007
Growing up in the Nairobi of the 90s, a seething boiling pot of racial tension and conflicting cultural taboos, Leena and Jai are raised to believe in a Kenya full of possibility and potential. But as they come of...
- Location(s): England, Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
A multi-layered story of three generations of one family and is set in England and Kenya during and after the Second World War. Meg Brya is sailing to Kenya to be with her fiance. On the boat ride out...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a bomb explodes in a downtown Nairobi hotel, private detectives Ishmael and Odhiambo quickly make the connection to a murder case they’re investigating. It’s the first big break for their new detective agency, Black Star, formed after they...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1970s
Coral Sinclair is a beautiful but naive twenty-five-year-old photographer who has just lost her father. She’s leaving the life she’s known and traveling to Kenya to take ownership of her inheritance–the plantation that was her childhood home–Mpingo. On the...
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