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With Child

With Child
  • Author(s): Andy Martin
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Europe, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Present day

With a foreword by Lee Child. Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me,...

WITH TOOTH AND NAIL

WITH TOOTH AND NAIL
  • Author(s): Riall Nolan
  • Location(s): Senegal
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure
  • Era(s): contemporary

A totally gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat Max Donovan, a man who uses his knowledge of far-flung corners of the earth and a fair bit of muscle to ‘fix things’, is relaxing...

Within These Wicked Walls

Within These Wicked Walls
  • Author(s): Lauren Blackwood
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult

This is set in an alternate ETHIOPIA What the heart desires, the house destroys… Andromeda is a debtera – an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn’t...

Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
  • Author(s): Edna G Bay
  • Location(s): Benin (Danhomè)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 18th century, 19th century

“Wives of the Leopard” explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred...

Wolf Light

Wolf Light
  • Author(s): Yaba Badoe
  • Location(s): Ghana, Cornwall, Mongolia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Three girls born on the same day in wolf light are bound together to protect the world. They can dazzle or destroy. They have wind-song and fire-fury at their fingertips, but their enemies are everywhere. From the bleak steppes...

Women Are Different

Women Are Different
  • Author(s): Flora Nwapa
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and before

The moving story of a group of Nigerian women which follows their lives from their schooldays together through the trials and tribulations of their adult lives. Through their stories we see some of the universal problems faced by women...

Year of No Rain

Year of No Rain
  • Author(s): Alice Mead
  • Location(s): The Sudan, South Sudan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

In the dry spring of 1999, eleven-year-old Stephen Majok watches as his friend Wol joins a circle of dancers. Wol is celebrating – only fourteen, he is engaged to Stephen’s sister. Wol wants to marry because he might join...

Year of the Elephant

Year of the Elephant
  • Author(s): Leila Abouzeid
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The novella and eight short stories that constitute “Year of the Elephant” – an allusion to a battle described in the Qur’an – serve as an eloquent representation of life in the wake of Morocco’s successful struggle for independence...

Yellow Room

Yellow Room
  • Author(s): Shelan Rodger
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Haunted by a tragic childhood accident, Chala’s whole life has been moulded by guilt and secrets. After the death of the stepfather she adored, Chala is thrown into turmoil once again. Volunteering in Kenya seems to offer an escape,...

Yorùbá Boy Running

Yorùbá Boy Running
  • Author(s): Biyi Bándélé
  • Location(s): England, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting ‘Run, Àjàyí, run!’ The day the Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí’s life was split...

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