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- Location(s): Kenya, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 21st century
For years Yvonne has tried to keep her demons buried and focus on moving forward. But her guilt is always with her and weighs heavily on her heart. Kiama has had to grow up without a mother, and while...
- Location(s): Africa, Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan, The Sudan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1884
A fourteen year old Polish boy and his British friend Nell are kidnapped by extremists in 1884 British Colonial Africa. They are taken hostage deep into uncharted wilderness, where they must struggle to survive with the help of their...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Meja and Maina arrive in the city confident their high school diplomas will lead to employment and a better life. However, they are unable to find jobs and end up living in the streets, among other unemployed and homeless...
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
Royal Spyness Mystery 13 Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir
- Era(s): Various
Nairobi Noir brings together some of Kenya’s most exciting and acclaimed writers, in this celebration of noir writing, played out on the streets of Nairobi. “Although the range of issues explored in Nairobi Noir is as diverse as its...
One Day I Will Write About This Place
- Location(s): Kenya, Nairobi
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother’s beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1914-1931
In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen’s memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they...
- Location(s): Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Tales of East Africa is a collection of 22 traditional tales from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Welcome to a world of magical adventure―a place where a boy spares the life of a fearsome monster, a flock of doves brings...
- Location(s): Pate Island, China, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘One of the most unforgettable books I have read in the last few years… What a writer! What a thinker! What a woman!’ Fiammetta Rocco From the award-winning author of Dust comes a magical, sea-saturated, coming-of-age novel that transports...
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