Blogs in January 2021

An Imperfect Blessing 15th January 2021

t is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. She...

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And After Many Days 15th January 2021

During the rainy season of 1995, in the bustling town of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, one family’s life is disrupted by the sudden disappearance of seventeen-year-old Paul Utu, beloved brother and son. As they grapple with the sudden loss of...

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She Would Be King 15th January 2021

In the west African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she survives to discover a new life with a group...

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I’ll Be Strong For You 14th January 2021

This award-winning debut novel by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi follows the lives of three young women in Tehran over the course of two seasons as they pursue their wildly different dreams even as they discover that it may mean...

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My Heart 14th January 2021

TRANSLATED BY CELIA HAWKESWORTH An intimate work of autobiographical fiction by one of ex-Yugoslavia’s greatest writers about his family’s experience as refugees from the Bosnian war – a timeless story of love, memory, and the resilience of the human...

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