Blogs in November 2022

The Lioness 11th November 2022

Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of...

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Afterlives 26th June 2022

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone,...

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The Saviour Fish 25th April 2022

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...

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Thunderbolt: A Jack Courtney Adventure 14th March 2021

Second in a brand new action adventure series starring 14-year-old Jack Courtney – a hero to rival Alex Rider – from worldwide bestselling author Wilbur Smith. Jack and his friends Amelia and Xander are in Zanzibar diving for lost...

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Gravel Heart 15th January 2021

Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise Salim has always believed that his father does...

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