Blogs in July 2020

Laugh with the Moon 6th July 2020

Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare. Clare...

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Kondi’s Quest 6th July 2020

All she longs for is her father’s love. Kondi, a 12-year-old Malawian girl, is sure her father, Bambo, doesn’t love her. He seems to care more about the secret brown envelope he carries with him everywhere than his own...

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City Boy 6th July 2020

Set in contemporary Malawi, a poignant account of an orphaned boy’s transition from city life to village life. Sam’s widowed mother has died from “the Disease,” and Sam is claimed by his aunt Mercy, who lives in the small...

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The Bird Boy’s Song 6th July 2020

This is a modern rendition in written form, of the popular Malawian folktale, ‘The Orphan and the Slave’, passed down through oral tradition. The traditional version, included alongside this modern work of fiction, tells of a boy who is...

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Echo of an Angry God 6th July 2020

Likoma Island in Lake Malawi is renowned throughout Africa for its exotic and treacherous beauty – and its secret history of human sacrifice, hidden treasure and unspeakable horror. A history that cannot be hidden forever. Lana Devereaux travels to...

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