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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): Pate Island, China, 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...
- Location(s): Nairobi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1903 and 1953
A haunting, heartbreaking and unforgettable novel of a woman married to a man she can never love, and drawn to another who will capture her heart forever… When eighteen year old Iris Johnson is forced to choose between marrying...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s/1930s
Sweeping, evocative and sumptuously told, The Hunters is a dramatic coming-of-age story, a complex portrayal of first love and family loyalty and a passionate reimagining of the Happy Valley set in all their glory and notoriety. Theo Miller is...
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