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Kill Me Quick

Kill Me Quick
  • Author(s): Meja Mwangi
  • 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

Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
  • Author(s): Rhys Bowen
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Historical, Cosy 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...

Nairobi Noir

Nairobi Noir
  • Author(s): Peter Kimani
  • 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

One Day I Will Write About This Place
  • Author(s): Binyavanga Wainaina
  • 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...

Out of Africa

Out of Africa
  • Author(s): Karen Blixen
  • 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...

Tales of East Africa

Tales of East Africa
  • Author(s): Jamilla Okubo (Illustrator)
  • 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...

The Dragonfly Sea

The Dragonfly Sea
  • Author(s): Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
  • 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...

The Forgotten Pioneer: A true family story set in East Africa

The Forgotten Pioneer: A true family story set in East Africa
  • Author(s): Anthea Ramsay
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“My grandfather was one of the first white men to set foot in Kenya when it was a newly discovered, barren and dangerous place. Neither he or his family ever imagined that he would fall under the spell of...

The Girl and the Sunbird

The Girl and the Sunbird
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stonehill
  • 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...

The Hunters

The Hunters
  • Author(s): Kat Gordon
  • 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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