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- Location(s): Uganda, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/Contemporary
‘You can’t stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will…’ 1960s UGANDA. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way...
- Location(s): Egypt, East Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Evolution of Fear and Reconciliation for the Dead. Claymore Straker returns in another gripping, page-turning, socially conscious thriller, with more at stake than ever… It is 1997, eight...
- Location(s): East Africa, London, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery
When Philip Hennessey is thrown out of army intelligence after evidence is fabricated against him, his ex-wife’s school friend asks him to investigate the sudden death of her father, who she thinks has been murdered. Philip soon discovers a...
- Location(s): East Africa, Kenya
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring prisoner-of-war and escape adventures of the past century. In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one...
Stranger, Visitor, Foreigner, Guest
- Location(s): Tanzania, Zanzibar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 19th Century /Late 20th Century
Stranger Visitor Foreigner Guest is the story of a collision of worlds and the ways in which westerners interact and impact on an extraordinary social and political arena. At the heart of the novel are the true events of the...
- Location(s): Tanzania, Cheltenham, Zanzibar
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tanzania. A place to be happy, to sleep uncovered with the sound of waves crashing to the shore. For Connie Stone, it’s a place to heal. When Connie leaves behind a cheating husband and heartache in the UK for...
- Location(s): Ukerewe Island
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sent to live on a remote island in the Tanzanian half of Lake Victoria, Mark Weston finds a community grappling with one of the world’s great unknown environmental crises. ‘You used to be able to stand on the beach...
Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness
- Location(s): East Africa, Isle of Skye
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author’s mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its...
- Location(s): Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his trademark recklessness and curiosity into Africa. Setting out...
- Location(s): Zanzibar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s and modern
Zanzibar today, and as it was 40 years ago: seen through the eyes of two women who meet there. Francesca has come hoping for new experience after the break-up of an affair, Carla to revive memories of a long-past,...
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