Blogs in May 2021

Rotten Row 29th May 2021

It is just after nine o’clock in the morning. Gidza will die in exactly forty-three minutes and thirteen seconds. ‘Rotten Row’ is the Criminal Division of Harare, and the courts and the unfortunates who pass through them are the...

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Hope Is Our Only Wing 4th March 2021

Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. A novel set in Zimbabwe about hope – and its power to heal a family, a friendship or even a nation. For fifteen-year-old Shamiso, struggling with grief and bewilderment following her father’s...

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Diamond Boy 4th March 2021

‘Diamonds for everyone.’ That’s what fifteen-year-old Patson Moyo hears when his family arrives in the Marange diamond fields, leaving his previous life, school and friends behind with hopes for a better life. Soon Patson is working in the mines...

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Far From Home 5th December 2020

Katie and Tariro are worlds apart but their lives are linked by a terrible secret, gradually revealed in this compelling and dramatic story of two girls grappling with the complexities of adolescence, family and a painful colonial legacy. 14-year-old...

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Long Time Coming 30th September 2020

Long Time Coming brings together short stories and poems from thirty-three writers that provide snapshots of this turbulent period in Zimbabwe’s history. Snapshots of living in a country where basic services have crumbled: where shops have no food, taps...

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