A Bit of Difference
Single life in modern-day Nigeria is far from simple, in this new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
Africa
The Sweetest Dream
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, personal, political novels.
Landlocked
The fourth book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
Americanah
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‘A delicious, important novel’The Times
‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent
‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ Guardian
The Grass is Singing
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.
Purple Hibiscus
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A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author.
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog
A fascinating novel of love and ecology from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
I Didn’t Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation (Text Only)
One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa’s best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong brilliantly reveals the contradictions and comedy, past and present, of Eritrea.
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo (Text Only)
‘Joyous … a book that makes other journalists weep with envy’ The Economist
‘Provocative, touching, and sensitively written … an eloquent, brilliantly researched account’ Sunday Times
One of The Economist’s best books by foreign correspondents.
African Laughter
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.
This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One
The first volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories Volume Two
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Martha Quest
The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
A Proper Marriage
The second book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
In Pursuit of the English
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
The Grass is Singing
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.