Me Cheeta: The Autobiography
The incredible, and moving true story of Cheeta the Chimp, star of countless Hollywood blockbusters, told in his own words.
Africa
Alfred and Emily
Doris Lessing’s first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led.
The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey
A brilliantly written exploration – part travel writing, part personal quest – of Africa’s oldest and most famous population
White Lies
‘Dexter Petley perfect writer’s eye gives us a candenced love story…Gripping, dryly hysterical, “White Lies” reeks of beauty and human truth.’ Alan Warner
Half of a Yellow Sun: Abridged edition
THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’
‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL
‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER
‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME
Half of a Yellow Sun
THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’
‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL
‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER
‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME
Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
The history of man’s love affair with a completely useless gem.
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo
‘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.
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.