Category Archives: World Music
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother`s Life Before Me
When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said `One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.` Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother`s life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven
A Long Walk Home: One Woman`s Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss – and Survival
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice
Every Day is for the Thief
A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, his childhood country has grown up quickly: found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority; the all-consuming draw of money for nothing. From the consulate in Manhattan to the dusty streets of Lagos, life in modern Nigeria runs like clockwork –
This Mournable Body: Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE`As natural as the grass grows.` Chinua Achebe`[Dangarembga] is a wonderful creator of character.` Doris Lessing`[A] Masterpiece.` New York Times`Searing and enlightening.` Sefi Atta, author of Everything Good Will ComeIn this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling
Nervous Conditions
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC`S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 `UNFORGETTABLE` Alice Walker `THIS IS THE BOOK WE`VE BEEN WAITING FOR` Doris Lessing `A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.` Booklist `AN ABSORBING PAGE-TURNER` Bloomsbury Review `A MASTERPIECE` Madeleine Thien `ARRESTING` Kwame Anthony Appiah Two decades before Zimbabwe would
The Book of Not
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY and NERVOUS CONDITIONSONE OF THE BBC`S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies` College of the Sacred Heart. Determined to excel, Tambu exhausts herself with her efforts to climb to the top of
Our Planet
The future of all life on this earth depends on our willingness to take action now` – David AttenboroughWhat we do in the next twenty years will determine the future of not just the natural world but humanity itself.With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, breathtakingly beautiful still photography, specially commissioned maps and graphics, and
When the Hills Ask for Your Blood: a Personal Story of Genocide and Rwanda
Into the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead. 6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president`s plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds his family close, fearing for their lives as the violence escalates. In the chapel of a hillside village, missionary priest Vjeko Curic prepares
A House in the Sky: A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything
A House in the Sky is the dramatic and redemptive memoir of Amanda Lindhout, a woman whose curiosity led her to the world`s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity – an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace. As a child,
The World`s Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia
Award-winning journalist James Fergusson is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. This corner of the world has long been seen as the rotting and charred heart of Africa: a melting pot of crime, corruption, poverty, famine and civil war.
Birds of the Serengeti: and Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Located in northern Tanzania, the Serengeti is one of the world`s most famous wildlife regions. Birds of the Serengeti is a groundbreaking and essential photographic guide, featuring more than 270 bird species most likely to be encountered in the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This easy-to-use guide includes 480 dazzling color photos, an
Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy 1
This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain`s occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper
A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Tanzania
Home to the Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania offers some of the finest big game watching in the world, from elephants and rhinos to chimpanzees and lions. This field guide covers all the larger mammals of Tanzania, including marine mammals and some newly discovered species. Detailed accounts are provided for more
Palace of Desire: Cairo Trilogy 2
The sensual and provocative second volume in the โ€Cairo Trilogyโ€, โ€Palace Of Desireโ€ follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920`s and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son`s death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player
Sugar Street: Cairo Trilogy 3: 2nd volume. Vol.1
โ€Sugar Streetโ€, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz`s masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family`s destiny,
Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die
We only get one life so we owe it to ourselves to see as much of this beautiful world as possible. For many of us, lying on a beach for two weeks each year is just not enough any more. We want to see ancient monuments, extraordinary scenery, endangered wildlife, foreign cultures, architecture and art
The Mara
This is the visual story of life in Maasai Mara, Kenya, wild home of African big game and one of the world s most famous wildlife reserves. Anup Shah s distinctive style of photography propels the reader into the middle of this evocative land and its resident animals, immediately and intimately. โ€The Mara โ€reveals a
The Book of Memory
The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd`s death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother,
The Spider King`s Daughter
This title is the winner of a Betty Trask Award, Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a
Adjaye Africa Architecture
The African continent contains some of the world`s most vibrant culture and creativity, and yet its buildings – vernacular, colonial or contemporary – have rarely engaged the interest of Western architects. David Adjaye, the first black architect to establish a truly global reputation in his field, has found endless sources of inspiration for his designs
