When she needs to sell her last bag of beans to pay for her daughter's education, Nasula, a young widow travels to Lusaka. In the city however she is exposed to new, predatory dangers that require her to face different challenges. Gloss, 152pp, UK.HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

A collection of short stories published by the Zambian women writers' collective. The writers in-clude Samuel Kasankha and Mulenga Kapwepwe. Monde Sifuniso, the editor, who also con-tributes a story, was formerly the publisher at the University of Zambia and President of Zambia Women Writers' Association. BNS, 82pp, ZAMBIA. ZAMBIA WOMENS WRITERS ASSOCIATION.

New in paperback. Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled: an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared, only alive in old photographs. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, as a young man his only desire is to fulfil his lover's dream and visit the grave of a legendary missionary who survived alone in the remote hills of Northern Zambia. On reaching Africa, Olofson is struck by its beauty and mystery. For almost two decades, he battles with a hostile environment and a placid, but resistant workforce. Set in the 1970s and 1980s, this novel explores the relationship between the white farmers and their Zambian workers. 315pp, UK. VINTAGE.

When Howard and Julia Lament adopt Will, a baby secretly switched at birth in a bizarre hospital debacle, it marks the beginning of a fictional journey that takes them from Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s to the Persian Gulf, England and suburban, Seventies America, as they search for their place in the world. Forced by his younger, anarchic twin brothers to question his place in the family, Will struggles to find a sense of his own identity through the characters he meets en route - from Ruth, his first love in Africa, who carries around a biscuit tin lid to admire her reflection, to Dawn Snedecker, the lisping intellectual who breaks his heart in America - and fights to keep his family from breaking apart. 370pp, UK. SCEPTRE.

Maria, a student in Brighton, begins to piece together her family history during a dull Christmas visit to her grandmother and after buying an African carving that she someone can't resist. Discovering that Caroline, the long suffering colonial wife whose letters are still safely kept was not her great-grandmother at all, Maria begins of journey of discovery that pieces together the disparate narratives that weave through this rich and intelligent novel; a journey that draws together people who cared not for nation or tribe but for the infinitely varied networks that were our common inheritance. 208pp, UK. CINNAMON PRESS.

Nineteen folktales recording the oral traditions of rural northwestern Zambia. 66pp, ZAMBIA. ZAMBIA P.E.N. CENTRE.

2006 9799982640007 Paperback

Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds - that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo, and that of her mother, his mistress - this emotive tale takes us to the heart of a young girl's attempts to come to terms with her own identity and fashion a future for herself from the patchwork of the life she was born into. 224pp, UK. PENGUIN.

A collection of poetry in English which expresses the creative landscape of contemporary Zambia. Poets include Sekelani Banda, Wilmont Benkele, Jennifer Carol, Cheela Chilala, Boyd Chipeta, Clive Kwana, Malama Katulwende, Mercy Khozi, Namonda Matele, Charity Meki, Josephine Bwalya Muchelemba, Chrissy Mulenga, Isabelle Mukanda Shamambo, Parnwell Munatamba, Mbuyu Nalumango, Namakau Nalumango, Gideon Nyirenda, John Njovu, Mary Nkoma, Kufekisa Lubinda Sifuniso, John Shakafuswa, Monde Sifuniso, Mukelabai Songiso and Gabriel Zulu. B/w illus, xiv, 143pp, ZAMBIA. ZAMBIA WOMENS WRITERS ASSOCIATION.

2001 9982991140 Paperback

Love story set at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. 292pp, ZAMBIA. MAIDEN PUBLISHING HOUSE.

2005 9789982120913 Paperback

A description of Zambian wildlife and the mythical properties of the animals and their habits. Bib, xii, 201pp, ZAMBIA. MINTA PUBLISHERS.

2001 9982848003 Paperback