Geoff Nyarota was the editor of the Daily News, Zimbabwes only independent newspaper, for four years. In this time, he chronicled the decline of the country under Robert Mugabes Zanu-PF-controlled regime, and was subjected to extreme harassment by the state. As a young man, Nyarota fervently believed that his children would know the freedom of democracy that he himself had been denied under colonial rule. But after the war of liberation and Mugabes accession to power in 1980, Nyarota discovered that the returned war heroes were more interested in enriching themselves than in uplifting the people. Index, bib, col photos, 352pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ZEBRA PRESS.

Entrepreneur, businessman, plant-breeder, racehorse owner and breeder, sanctions-buster, chairman and director of many companies, husband, father and gentleman, C.G. was active and involved through the many unsettled years of Zimbabwe's history. Col illus, 328pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

Since Herbert Chitepo was murdered in 1975, four people have confessed to the assassination and countless other people have been accused. This new account looks at the reasons why his murder continues to stir up so much controversy and conflict in Zimbabwe and the social and political implications of this. Index, bib, notes, xiii, 139pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

New edition. An impassioned defence of a controversial career. Smith describes his upbringing, his active service as an RAF pilot, his appointment as prime minister of Rhodesia and the Unilateral Declaration of Independence that followed, with a detailed account of the political and military conflict up to the Lancaster House Agreement and beyond. B/w illus, maps, index, 442pp, UK. BLAKE PUBLISHING.

New in paperback. Sports book meets real-life thriller in this sensational autobiography of Henry Olonga, the former Zimbabwean cricketer whose black armband protest against Robert Mugabe at the 2003 World Cup saw him branded a traitor, sentenced to death in his absence and forced to dramatically flee his homeland and his family. Blood, Sweat and Treason tells the story of Olonga's childhood, of his gradual realisation that he was living in a dictatorship, of his battle to reach the top as a black cricketer and how he sacrificed his position to do something he hoped would make a difference. 304pp, UK. VISION SPORTS PUBLISHING.

A slim but revealing volume of an academic's conversations with Zimbabwe's opposition political leader over four years. Originally published as CITIZEN OF AFRICA by the Fingerprint Co-operative (Cape Town). 110pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

The story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned. They had everything, including two golden children - a girl and a boy. However, life became increasingly difficult and they moved to Rhodesia to work as farm managers. The previous farm manager had committed suicide. His ghost appeared at the foot of their bed and seemed to be trying to warn them of something. Shortly after this, one of their golden children died. Africa was no longer the playground of Nicola's childhood. They returned to England where the author was born before they returned to Rhodesia and to the civil war. The last part of the book sees the Fullers in their old age on a banana and fish farm in the Zambezi Valley. They had built their ramshackle dining room under the Tree of Forgetfulness. In local custom, this tree is the meeting place for villagers determined to resolve disputes. It is in the spirit of this Forgetfulness that Nicola finally forgot - but did not forgive - all her enemies including her daughter and the Apostle, a squatter who has taken up in her bananas with his seven wives and forty-nine children. 256pp, UK. SIMON & SCHUSTER.

Tells the story of Betty, who spent almost 40 years in Northern and Southern Rhodesia, from childhood, through to her time in Rhodesia (highlighting the Northern Rhodesia independence and the civil war in Southern Rhodesia), until her move to Europe in 1981. A fascinating snapshot of ordinary life in the latter days of white colonial Africa, seen through the eyes of a mature, practical women, once a wartime nurse in the Royal Navy.245pp, UK. STAMFORD HOUSE PUBLISHING

Thirty personal histories that raise questions about the nature of commitment to a Zimbabwean identity. The contributors share a passion for making a difference and a sense of personal responsibility for the future of their country; this is what made each of them a victim of persecution. Becoming a victim too often implies losing one's identity though the loss of possessions, community and human rights. These stories cast a telling light on a critical period of Zimbabwe's history; we hope that their publication will also enable the contributors to find renewed strength and purpose. 542pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

A richly textured memoir in which an ordinary troopie grapples with the unique dilemmas presented by an extraordinary period in history: the spectres of inner violence and death; the pressurised arrival of manhood; and the place of conscience, friendship and beauty in the pervasive atmosphere of futile warfare. 196pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

An honestly recounted and lyrical autobiography which recounts the growing up in Rhodesia. Her narrative combines her family's story with the wars and changes of government. B/w illus, 310 pp, UK. PICADOR

Now in paperback. When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. He dedicated his life to defending the interests of the Africans he lives with and comes into conflict with the neighbouring European community and British South Africa Company. This book weaves fiction, travel, biography and current events to tell the story of Cripp's African legacy from the turn of the twentieth century to its close. Gloss, map, 320pp, UK. FABER & FABER.

By late 1975, in the détente that followed the coup in Portugal, the guerrilla war in Rhodesia was almost at a standstill. But so were the talks about a negotiated settlement. In January 1976, frustrated with the failure of the politicians to make progress, the Zimbabwe Peoples Army (ZIPA) resumed the war. ZIPA brought together fighters from both of the guerrilla forces, ZANLA and ZIPRA. One of its commanders was Wilfred Mhanda, known during the liberation struggle by the nom de guerre Dzinashe Dzino Machingura. His story tells of ZIPA's attempt to provide a more unified, radical and focussed leadership for the struggle at a time of the assassination and arrest of key nationalist leaders, intense nationalist party rivalries, and a range of imperialist interventions in the region. It also provides the most comprehensive description to date of Robert Mugabe’s rise to power in ZANU-PF. 330pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

An unplanned visit to South Africa's Kruger National Park changed Sharon Pincott's life as she knew it. She was a high-flying Information Technology specialist Down Under, but now she dreamed of working with Africa's wildlife. Eventually, she abandoned her life of privilege and luxury and moved to Zimbabwe - a country in turmoil - to live and work among elephants on land bordering Hwange National Park. 296pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

First biography of Zimbabwe's beleaguered opposition politician, tracing his trade union roots, his rise to the leadership of the Movement for Democratic Change and the Mugabe regime’s attempts to implicate him in a clumsy treason plot. Index, 159pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

New in paperback. A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. By tracing the intertwining lives of the Nigel and Akwe - rich and poor, white and black, master and maid - Christina Lamb not only presents both sides of the Zimbabwean dilemma, but captures in achingly intimate terms her own uplifting conviction that, although savaged, there is still hope for one of Africa's most beautiful countries. Gloss, maps, b/w photos, 290pp, UK. HARPER PERENNIAL.

Kevin Woods was sentenced to death in Zimbabwe and jailed for twenty years. For more than five years of his detention he was held in the shadow of the gallows, cut off from the world, naked and in solitary confinement. He had been a senior member of the Central Intelligence Organization and committed a murder on behalf of the apartheid South African government. From Mugabe's confidante to condemned prisoner, he recounts his life on the edge, as a double agent. He explains the desolation of being abandoned by South Africa when he was compromised and he details his lone fight to maintain his humanity, dignity and sanity in a dehumanising prison system. Index, apps, b/w line drawings, b/w & col photos, 304pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

New edition. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwes president Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim white-owned land and Rogerss parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed. Lyn and Ros, the owners of Driftersa famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains that was one of the most popular budget resorts in the country found their home and resort under siege, their friends and neighbors expelled, and their lives in danger. But instead of leaving, as their son pleads with them to do, they haul out a shotgun and decide to stay. 288pp, UK. SHORT BOOKS LTD.

Long-awaited autobiography of the controversial Zimbabwean politician. Index, b/w illus, 179pp, ZIMBABWE. SAPES. LIMITED STOCK.

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Lost in Africa is a colloquialism from the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), meaning a state of bewilderment or cluelessness, which Stu Taylor uses to describe his disjointed life. Born in South Africa and raised in Southern Rhodesia to nomadic parents, Taylor’s early years were unsettled as he was shuffled from school to school during the 1950s. Describing himself as marginally above really thick, he signed on in 1967 with the RLI and served with that unit for thirteen years, always at the forefront of hostilities during the bitter Rhodesian bush war. B/w photos, 200pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

In 1999, a defiant 76-year old Mr Stanley Mhlanga confronted the Zimbabwean Forestry Commission. He claimed that Queen Lozikeyi had given his people the land from which they had been evicted. Who was this woman, an inspiration to an old man 80 years after her death? Queen Lozikeyi was the senior queen of Lobhengula, king of the Ndebele people in what is now Zimbabwe. Her early life has been wreathed in mystery, but now at last her story can be told. B/w illus, 364pp, ZIMBABWE. AMAGUGU PUBLISHERS.

Caute offers an affectionate but unblinking portrait of the writer and his self-destructive lifestyle, an expanded version of an essay written over twenty years previously. Tracking his writing, he explores Marechera's childhood, education and tumultuous years in Britain. In this freewheeling report, the man and his art, the reality and the myth, merge within an exhilarating imagination tragically extinguished by death in 1987. 154pp, UK. TOTTERDOWN BOOKS.

A portrait of the author's grandmother and her struggle to build a life for her family in Zimbabwe between the World Wars. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 310pp, UK, WITCHINGHAM PRESS, 095459200X

A founding member and leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai came to prominence as a political force in the late 1990s. Over the next ten years he would be harassed, tortured, charged with treason and labelled a traitor, but he would also come to be globally regarded as a courageous and indefatigable symbol of resistance in the face of brutal repression. From teenage mine worker to trade union leader to Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in a coalition government, his autobiography traces Tsvangirai's political development and activism, laying bare the challenges and frustrations of his political life, up to and including the power-sharing agreements with President Robert Mugabe. At the Deep End is the story of a man who, through everything he has endured, has remained committed to working for peace and democracy for all in his country, and in the process become a beacon of hope for a beleaguered nation. Written in collaboration with his spokesperson, veteran journalist and editor T. William Bango, this book contains rich documentation of both Morgan Tsvangirai s political career and of the changing socio-historical context of Zimbabwe. 476pp, UK. EYE BOOKS.

Ben Freeth has an extraordinary story to tell. Like that of many white farmers, his family's land was 'reclaimed' by Mugabe's government for redistribution. But Ben's family fought back. Appealing to international law, they instigated a suit against Mugabe's government via the SADC (The Southern African Development Community). The case was deferred time and again while Mugabe's men pulled strings. But after Freeth and his parents-in-law were abducted and beaten within inches of death in 2008, the SADC deemed any further delay to be an obstruction of justice. The case was heard, and successful on all counts. But the story doesn't end there. In 2009 the family farm was burnt to the ground. 256pp, UK. LION HUDSON.

Reissue. An autobiography set against the background of the bloody transition to black majority rule in Zimbabwe, evoking boyhood memories of a settler society collapsing into chaos. 418pp, UK. PICADOR.

Revised and updated. The autobiography of Stephen Lungu who rose above a shattered family background and life on the streets in Zimbabwe to become a respected preacher of the Gospel. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 253pp, UK. MONARCH BOOKS.

When Linda Caine left Zimbabwe with her baby son in the 1970s she hoped she had left her past behind. However, twenty years on she begins to suffer from debilitating flashbacks to events that she had deeply repressed. Written with her therapist Robin Royston, this book describes their journey to unravel the shocking secrets from her childhood that lie at the heart of her depression. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 446pp, UK. CORGI

Biography revealing the dreams and aspirations of a young Zimbabwean girl, as she grows up, goes to school, looks for her first job, has her first romance. This account provides an insight into the needs and aspirations of this young woman, who in turn is a mirror through which today's Zimbabwe can be viewed. 184pp, UK. BRAISWICK.

Sympathetic portrayal of a controversial and colourful character in the white Rhodesian government. 352pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

New in paperback. Honest memoir describes growing up on an African farm during the 'Rhodesian Bush War' and the twilight years of white colonialism in the 1970s. It also explores the shock yet euphoria of Zimbabwean independence in the 1980s as St John navigates her way through the immense personal and political changes. The abundance and beauty of Zimbabwe and its people as well as childhood innocence are contrasted with the insidiousness of racism, war and nationalist propaganda. 304pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

This retrospective offers a first hand account on internal conflicts in ZANU during the 1970s, which resulted in the defeat of its left wing. Chung's narratives include her experiences in two guerrilla camps. She recalls her encounters with the charismatic Josiah Tongogara, a legendary military commander during Zimbabwe's liberation war (known as the second chimurenga), who died at the threshold to Independence. The personal recollection of a transition to national sovereignty concludes with an incisive analysis of developments after Independence. It ends with Chung's vision for the Zimbabwe of the future. Index, 357pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

Now in paperback by the author of DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT. War leaves permanent scares on those who survive and live through conflict. When she mets K, a veteran of the all white Rhodesian Light Infantry Commando, the author embarks on a troubling journey through Zambia, Zimababwe and Mozambique and the lands that hold the scars of the war that they both lived through. As they venture deeper into the African bush, they encounter other veterans and as memories are refreshed, old wounds are reopened. Gloss, 256pp, UK. PICADOR.

Traces Muzenda’s life from the days of the Voice Association movement, NDP, Zapu and later Zanu. Bhebe argues that Muzenda was an astute organiser and a shrewd political operator. 308pp, ZIMBABWE. MAMBO PRESS.

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Account of growing up in a strait-laced, racist society and the absurdity of fighting for a dying regime. The ugliness of the conflict, the trauma of transformation, the agonies of conscience of the writer, the beauty of the landscape: all are captured here in brilliant detail. Threading through the narrative is the story of Williams' obsessive infatuation with the enigmatic, sharp-tongued Bianca Pennefather, who leads him on a painful emotional and spiritual journey. Looming over this fragile world is the grotesque experience of the battlefield, where young soldiers like Paul Williams inexorably shed their illusions and lost their youth. B/w photos, 407pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Judith Todd, the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, erstwhile prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia, spent eight years in exile in Britain as an opponent of white minority rule in Ian Smith's Rhodesia. She returned to Zimbabwe shortly before independence in 1980, and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe's ills, Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu (PF) party were increasingly becoming the problem. As the country slid into economic and social decline, Todd had a front-row view from her position as director of a local development agency. Over the first 25 years of Mugabe's rule, she kept journals, notes and copies of letters and documents from which she has compiled an intensely personal account of life in Zimbabwe. Index, col & b/w photos, 460pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ZEBRA PRESS.

Testimony from a 29-year-old Zimbabwean who has written his personal history against the background of Zimbabwe's troubles: I am part of an angry generation. A generation that feels alienated from the political process. We have been through many trials and tribulations which are not of our making and we are bitter. 146pp, NAMIBIA. BROOKRIDGE PUBLISHING.

Now in paperback: the first volume of her autobiography: covers the first thirty years of this major writer and the development of her feminist ideas.. HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS.

The second volume of Lessing's much-praised autobiography covers her early life in war-torn London and the personal and political battles of the 1950s. 'Passionate and compelling'. Daily Telegraph. B/w illus, 369pp, UK. HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS.

New in paperback. Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred incited by an embattled dictator. His father recovers, but over the next few years, Godwin travels regularly between his family life in Manhattan and the increasing chaos of Zimbabwe, where inflation runs so fast that the currency can't keep up; where land seizures have made famine a real prospect; and where his parents, emigrants from post-war England, are refusing to abandon their home. It is against this backdrop that Godwin discovers a fifty-year-old family secret, one which changes everything he thought he knew about his father, and his own place in the world. 416pp, UK. PICADOR.

Now available in paperback. Journalist Andrew Meldrum arrived in Zimbabwe in 1980 lured by the excitement of independence. Over twenty years he reported from the country he grew to love and described its change from young, hopeful democracy to pariah state until he was expelled in May 2003. The author describes what it is like to live through this period of hope and tragedy and how he was harassed, arrested, imprisoned and tried for attempting to report on human rights issues and massacres. Meldrum also describes the courage, defiance and resilience of the people of Zimbabwe, telling the stories of the people he knew who refused to accept the abuses of Mugabe's rule. Illustrated with colour photographs. 272pp, UK. JOHN MURRAY.

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