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The Screaming of the Innocent

The Screaming of the Innocent
  • Author(s): Unity Dow
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village, the local police tell her mother and the villagers that she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee finds a box containing evidence...

The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu

The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second book in the Inspector Kubu series–penned by a pair of Crime Writers’ Association Award-winning South African authors writing under the name Michael Stanley–The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu treats readers to a gripping and atmospheric story of...

The Sunbird

The Sunbird
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A lost civilisation. A curse reborn. Dr Ben Kazin has only a blurred photograph and a gut instinct that there is a lost city to uncover somewhere beneath the Botswana cliffs. Soon, a whispered curse and a chance encounter...

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her...

To the Land of long Lost Friends

To the Land of long Lost Friends
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime

In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance and finds that family relationships are always a tricky proposition—even for Botswana’s premier female detective....

Village of the Rain Wind

Village of the Rain Wind
  • Author(s): Bessie Head
  • Location(s): Serowe, Botswana
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Serowe:Village of the Rain Wind, Bessie Head blends her skills as a novelist with the actual words of nearly one hundred inhabitants of a Botswanan village called Serowe to present a clear picture of the village community and...

When Rain Clouds Gather

When Rain Clouds Gather
  • Author(s): Bessie Head
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, purposeful life. In the village of Golema Mmidi he meets Gilbert, a charismatic Englishman who is...

When Rain Clouds Gather And Maru

When Rain Clouds Gather And Maru
  • Author(s): Bessie Head
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, purposeful life. In the village of Golema Mmidi he meets Gilbert, a charismatic Englishman who is...

Wild Life

Wild Life
  • Author(s): Keena Roberts
  • Location(s): Botswana, Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a “baboon camp” in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split...

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