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1	When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa more books like this by Peter Godwin A brilliant memoir about a son's return to Africa to uncover the secrets of his family and his home. Bearing witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards, Godwin discovers why Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity and why his family chose to stay amidst the chaos. see all copies from £4.88! new only from £9.04! \| first editions
2	Nervous Conditions more books like this by Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, especially the circumscribed lives of the women, thinks her dreams have come true when her ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £10.07! \| first editions
3	Men of Men more books like this by Wilbur Smith A thriller set in the age of empire, battle and conquest, about a man whose dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland, but not before a king and proud warrior nation have paid the price of history. From the author of THE SEVENTH SCROLL. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Leopard Hunts in Darkness more books like this by Smith Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by a beautiful photographer, he finds himself caught up in a dangerous political web. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Angels Weep more books like this by Smith An adventurer and his missionary sister establish a legacy that will dominate part of a continent for decades to come, and a soldier meets his destiny in a battle that will forever scar two opposing races, in this novel set in southern Africa. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Grass Is Singing more books like this by Doris Lessing Hardback 50th Anniversary Edition Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of THE GRASS IS SINGING, her classic first novel, with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth ... see all copies from £3.69! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
7	Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder more books like this by James B Stewart In 1985, a young doctor named Michael Swango was convicted of poisoning five hospital co-workers in Illinois. Sentenced to five years in jail but paroled in 1987, Swango would work -- and kill -- within the medical community again, escaping detection until lying on a job application on Long Island almost ten years later. His story is a show ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
8	Martha Quest more books like this by Doris May Lessing The first book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other novels are "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm", "Landlocked" and "The Four-Gated City". see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.25! \| first editions
9	Ear, the eye and the arm more books like this by Nancy Farmer Cocooned inside the towering walls of their family estate,the three children of General Matsika,Zimbabwes Chief of Security,have led a sheltered life. Now out and alone in the real world they are ideal victims to be kidnapped. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa more books like this by Peter Godwin This autobiography is the story of Peter Godwin, who grew up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, aware, but only dimly, of the divisions that would lead to civil war. His childhood was spent among African children who could never be his friends, and white adults who were beginning to perceive the anachronism that their late colonial lifestyle represented. ... see all copies from £2.05! new only from £9.56! \| first editions
11 view cover	Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter more books like this by J Nozipo Maraire Written as an extended letter from a black Zimbabwean mother to her daughter leaving for a university place in America, this refreshing and poignant first novel draws back a veil to reveal life in Africa today. Using the lyrical African tradition of dialogue through storytelling, she weaves her tales into a complex fabric of experiences and so ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa more books like this by Adam Roberts Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billiondollar corruption, and general rule by terror. With so little to ... see all copies from £5.83! new only from £7.48! \| first editions
13 view cover	Blind Eye: The Terrifying True Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder more books like this by Prof. James Brewer Stewart No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired -- in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota -- Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his patients began dying under suspicious circumstances. At once a gripping read and a hard-hitting look at the inner workings of the American ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.47! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe more books like this by Dervla Murphy Dervla Murphy often recalled these words while pedalling or pushing her bicycle over some of the roughest roads in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the beauty of the contrasting landscapes along her 3,000-mile route from Kenya through Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia to Zimbabwe more than compensated for the hazardous and the unexpected.;Dervla had been ... see all copies from £3.58! new only from £46.71! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith Alexander McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and grew up hearing stories that so enchanted him, he passed them along to his own children. He now shares them in this jewel of a book. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £6.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Four Gated City more books like this by Doris May Lessing The fifth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "Landlocked". see all copies from £1.36! new only from £10.81! \| first editions
17	Flight of the Falcon more books like this by Wilbur Smith He is the rover, the lawless trader. She is the healer, bringing the word of God to the exotic tribes of Africa. Robyn Ballantyne and Mungo St. John will battle with all the fury of two natural enemies. They will love with all the desperation of a woman and a man unable to evade the commands of fate. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £39.74! \| first editions
18 view cover	African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe more books like this by Doris May Lessing In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £8.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Proper Marriage more books like this by Lessing One of Doris Lessing's most important novels -- here beautifully repackaged This is the second volume in Doris Lessing's renowned quartet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in Africa to an imagined post-nuclear Britain. A Proper Marriage sees twenty-something Martha beginning to realise that her marriage has been a ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £9.56! \| first editions
20 view cover	Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir more books like this by Neely Tucker Foreign correspondent for the Washington Post Neely Tucker and his African-American wife, living in Zimbabwe, save the life of an abandoned baby girl and then formally adopt her--but only after a determined struggle with bureaucracy, racism, anti-Americanism, police harassment, and political upheaval. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Guns & rain : guerillas & spirit mediums in Zimbabwe more books like this by David Lan Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas. No such struggle has succeeded without a very high degree of cooperation between guerrillas and the local peasantry. But what does "cooperation" between peasants and guerrillas really consist of? What effect does it have on the way they view the world for which ... see all copies from £5.88! new only from £14.15!
22 view cover	Landlocked more books like this by Doris May Lessing The fourth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The others are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "The Four-Gated City". see all copies from £2.01! new only from £8.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	A Ripple from the Storm more books like this by Doris May Lessing The third book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to her old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "Landlocked" and "The Four-Gated City". see all copies from £1.79! new only from £7.81! \| first editions
24 view cover	Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel more books like this by Tudor Parfitt This is a description of an often hazardous journey across Africa to solve the mystery of the Lemba people, who claim to be a lost Jewish tribe from a fabled city called Sena, and who sought the author's help in tracing their origins. As the story unfolds it becomes clear that this is an expedition not only through unfrequented territory, but also ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £2.11! \| first editions
25 view cover	Alfred and Emily more books like this by Doris May Lessing Nobel Laureate Lessing offers a moving meditation on parents and children, war and memory, and she explores the lives of her parents, two individuals irrevocably damaged by the Great War, in this work that combines fiction and memoir. Photos throughout. see all copies from £12.51! new only from £12.97!

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