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The Sloth Lemur’s Song

The Sloth Lemur’s Song
  • Author(s): Alison Richard
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet,...

The Tremor of Forgery

The Tremor of Forgery
  • Author(s): Patricia Highsmith
  • Location(s): Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Howard Ingham finds it strange that no one has written to him since he arrived in Tunisia – neither the film director that he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York who is,...

The Tyranny of Trust

The Tyranny of Trust
  • Author(s): Neil Gevisser
  • Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, Aaron meets Angela in a bar. He has no way of knowing that she has sought him out because he is a White man about to move into District Six – an...

Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in Africa

Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in Africa
  • Author(s): Rob Baker
  • Location(s): Mali
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2009 - 2012

“Go to Mali,” they said. “The music is amazing,” they said. “And you get ten hours of sunshine every day.” So I did, and this is the story of my three years in a poor yet incredibly rich West...

Warrior King

Warrior King
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
  • Era(s): 1820s

A BATTLE FOR HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMY South Africa, 1820 When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy....

Weeping Waters

Weeping Waters
  • Author(s): Karin Brynard
  • Location(s): Bushmanland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered...

West With The Night

West With The Night
  • Author(s): Beryl Markham
  • 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....

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
  • Author(s): Peter Godwin
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern, mid 1900s

Peter Godwin grew up in Zimbabwe and he returns to the country when his Father passes away. The picture of modern day Zimbabwe, the political and economic failings, the terror, all have a part in his personal observations, with...

Who Will Catch Us As We Fall

Who Will Catch Us As We Fall
  • Author(s): Iman Verjee
  • 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...

Morality for Beautiful Girls

Morality for Beautiful Girls
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

THE NO.1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana’s only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and...

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