- Location(s): Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Lomba is a young journalist living in Lagos under Nigeria’s brutal military regime. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the novel he’s writing. Yet when his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers,...
- Location(s): Seville, Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary / 15th Century
He appears out of the sea, washed up naked, in the treacherous Straits of Gibraltar. Seemingly delirious, and claiming to be Christopher Columbus, he is taken to an insane asylum in Seville, where astonishingly he starts to reveal the...
- Location(s): The Maldives
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Miranda arrives in an ocean paradise with husband Jim and most of the usual group for their annual dive holiday. Their daughter is grown up and living on the other side of the world. She and Jim have no...
- Location(s): Mali
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
“Waiting for Rain” is the story of a young, novice development professional who leaves the comfort of the United States to live and work in Mali, one of West Africa’s poorest but most interesting and authentically African countries. Mali...
- Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
- Era(s): Modern
In the republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by something much more confusing, that’s for sure. There are no jobs in the cities. And when there are jobs, employees aren’t compensated. And when they are compensated,...
Waiting for the Tulips to Bloom: Adrift in Istanbul
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
When the dream of living in a foreign country is rudely shattered by gritty reality, there are two choices. Turn tail and run or bravely face what life throws at you. Welcome to a roller coaster ride through the...
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family. In May 2020, we published The Wondrous and Tragic...
Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote
- Location(s): West Africa, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ahmadou Kourouma’s remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora – storyteller and king’s fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at...
- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th and 20th centuries
Waiting for Time, the sequel to Random Passage, completes the epic saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. Here, Bernice Morgan tells the story of the strong-willed and enigmatic Mary Bundle, one of the most beloved characters in Newfoundland...
Waiting: A Novel of Uganda’s Hidden War
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Set in the seventies during the last year of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s brutal, often surreal rule, Waiting evokes the fear and courage of a small close-knit society uncertain of what the edicts of a madman or the marauding...
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