A novel set in Kenya during the 1960s telling the story of Ellie, who returns to the country she grew up in to discover her violent father's dark secret. 217pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

The third and last instalment of her incredible saga, Corinne describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan bush. 173pp, UK. ARCADIA.

The first novel by the award winning poet and playwright, is a snapshot of contemporary Africa with themes of urban migration, economic hardship and social malaise. 174pp, Kenya. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBS, 9966251553

Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, return to his people? Or should he continue to be a black hermit in the town? 96pp., UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Collaborative fiction. During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands three girls from vastly different backgrounds become blood sisters, promising that nothing will ever destroy the bond between them. But the legacy of the Mau Mau rebellion and the tensions and upheavals of a newly independent Kenya tear their childhood dreams apart. Separated by distance and by family obligation, the three young women are thrown into a larger world of conflicting interests. Gloss, 598pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Set in the Laikipia District of Kenya during an important stage in the Mau Mau liberation struggle. 134pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966460403

A novel in which the Kenyan author shows his 'personal concern with the tangible plight of the masses wallowing in poverty and despair in many countries'. 368pp. UK JANUS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1857564383

A mystery set against the backdrop of the scourge of AIDS. One woman dies of a wasting disease and another confesses she is HIV positive. Will they be long survived by their male partners? 175pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 9966469931

Despair drives Wariinga out of Nairobi and leads her to striking new encounters. 256pp. UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Intriguing allegorical novel by a young Kenyan author, dealing with the misuse of power. 203pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS, 0795701195

In 1903, the British offered (although never put into effect) Uasin Gishu in Kenya as a home for Jews escaping persecution in Eastern Europe. This novel explores feelings of the time and the experiences of an ordinary Jewish settler family. 122pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

Set in East Africa during the 1960s, this is the story of a miserly shopkeeper in small town Africa, a 19th Indian courtesan concealed behind a black veil and a multi millionaire determinedly spending every last penny on a lavish film. 335pp, UK. BOGLE L'OUVERTURE.

Now in paperback. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When International Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head - with Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crew - to the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches the camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, enlists the help of a local pilot to lead them to the swampy forests of Ngoubé. There they discover a clan of Pygmies who unveil a harsh and surprising world of corruption, slavery, and poaching. 296pp, UK. HARPER PERENNIAL.

These are poignant stories of love, betrayal, dreams and tribulation, corruption and redemption. 121pp, UK. SALT PUBLISHING.

Reprint of the 1994 novel. The Rift Valley Province of Kenya is an opposition stronghold, their secret eviction is ordered. The regime is clinging to power, ethnic hatred is rampant. In this first novel from a new Kenyan writer, an unlikely trio emerges: a foul character seeking to redeem himself, a young smart lawyer drawn in against her will, another lawyer not averse to bending the law to achieve his ends. The effort to call a halt is a powerful fictional evocation of attempts to halt an overweening regime. 392pp, KENYA. FOCUS PUBLICATIONS.

Based on the author's own experiences, this novel tells the story of the Hopkins family. In 1950s Manchester is still suffering from post war austerity and so Billy Hopkins decides to move his new family to Kenya. Expecting an exotic new life, they instead have to contend with the Mau Mau rebellion and the gradual end of the British Empire. 498pp, UK. HODDER HEADLINE, 0755302206

A classic novel depicting the history of colonialism in Kenya.

'He writes with poise and from deep reserves, and the book adds cubits to his already considerable stature.' The Guardian. 247pp. UK. HEINEMANN, 0435909878

Penguin Edition. Set in Kenya during the last days of British rule in 1963, he uses the characters to establish the racial, social and moral issues which would mark Kenya during its post colonial years. Ngugi shows the roots of the forces which would pit Kenyan against Kenyan. This edition includes an introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah. 243pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS LTD(UK), 0141186992

Novel set around the disastrous consequences for family life of the drugs trade. Anti narcotics chief Jacinta Gatheru is forced to examine her own police force. 121pp, KENYA. FOCUS PUBLICATIONS LTD.

An unflinching poetic meditation on global inequality. Mukoma wa Ngugi casts a critical yet forgiving eye on closely-observed episodes from life in the United States, with knowing glances towards poets as diverse as Le'opold Se'dar Sengor and Matthew Arnold. The social concerns of an African poet in sympathy with political struggles throughout the third world jostle against and defamiliarise the details of American everyday life, which, so displaced, suddenly take on a new significance. 70pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

New paperback edition. An epic novel about a country poised between colonialism and independence. Vikram Lall inhabits an in-between world: between the pull of his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he loves; between his tragic past in Africa and an uncertain future in Canada and between escape from political terror and an inevitable return home. 439pp, UK. CANONGATE.

Novel whose central character, Edna, is sadly betrayed by the adults around her. 80pp, KENYA. SASA SEMA PUBLICATIONS.

2005 9966951334 Paperback

The sequel to the award winning `The River and the Source' chronicles the life of the grandchildren of the original characters and their search for identity in a rapidly shifting social world. 284pp, KENYA. FOCUS PUBLICATIONS LTD, 9966882723

The English translation of the Kikuyu play, Ngaahika Ndeenda, a powerful political play, banned in Kenya on publication in 1982. Includes an appendix with the songs in their original form. 122pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Thriller set in Kenya and the world of international conglomerates. Richard can hardly believe his luck when an export opportunity is presented to him by a group of Kenyan businessmen. He soon discovers, however, that the whole project is fraught with peril, though he could never have guessed the final outcome, and the ambiguous position his wife Lucy occupies at the centre of it all. 319pp, UK. SUCH PUBLISHING.

Set in the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums. 150pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

1973 0435901435 Paperback

The author's first collection of short stories including The Old White Witch, the Bamboo Hut, The Hero, Tekayo, Karantina, The Green Leaves and the Empty Basket. 204pp, KENYA. EAEP.

A novel on the theme of AIDS and its effects on a village in Kenya. 449pp. KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

2001 Paperback

New edition, with an updated introduction by Mervyn Morris, University of the West Indies. Set in Kenya during the Mau Mau period, The Leopard is the story of Nebu, a Kikuyu who was once a houseboy for an English estate owner. Now he is a Mau Mau who takes pleasure in witness-ing the deaths of his former white masters. This novel focuses on the relationship between black people and white people. 128pp, UK. PEARSON PUBLISHERS OXFORD LTD.

When a university professor decides to open a private school where young children can be taught their mother tongue, she finds herself at the centre of controversy and intrigue. Political events swirl around three women, a young business woman, an older teacher and her American friend. Gloss, 235pp, KENYA. JOMO KENYATTA FOUNDATION, 9966221492

A political fable, the ghost of rebellion haunting the Kenyan state. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS' SERIES.

The events of this novel are played out against a background of tension and contradiction between the rural and urban experience, squalor and affluence, reality and superstition. BNS, 309pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966250662

A novel set in Kitui District, Kenya. Michael, a missionary priest, has just killed Munyasya, a retired army officer. It might have been an accident, but Mulonzya, a politician resentful of the power of foreign churches, tries to exploit the tragedy for his own ends. Boniface, a young church worker, and his wife, Josephine, have just lost their child. They did not make it to the hospital in time, possibly because Michael made a detour to retrieve a letter from the Mission, a letter from Janet, a former volunteer teacher who was the priest's neighbour for two years. It is Munyasya who has the last laugh, however, when he reveals that he was probably in control of events all along. Thirty years on, the same characters find their lives still influenced by his memory. 432pp, UK. LIBROS INTERNATIONAL.

This play is about a deity-king who harnesses natural elements and uses them to recapture the usurped kingdom of his father. 77pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUB, 9966250646

A novel of secre burdens, moral decay and political callousness, set against a backdrop of a rich by dying Kenyan culture. BNS, 186pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

Traditional methods of healing are called upon to protect a country threatened by a wave of mysterious deaths. Will they work? The author is a Philosophy lecturer at the University of Nairobi. 261pp, KENYA. MISC PUBLISHERS IN KENYA, 9966999310

2001 DELAY Paperback

A novel of a venereologist working to de-mystify the nature of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in a medicalcentre serving the downtrodden of Kenya, and of his own personal life. 190pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 9966986502

Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prospere, a semi-literate Mimbolander who is searching for the finer things in life. The novel presents a graphic picture of the frustrations engendered by a society that values wealth over love. 202pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

This novel revolves around the romantic relationship of a mixed race couple, with complications thrown in by the jealous machinations of a love rival. 210pp, KENYA. Spear Books.

2004 9966252843 Paperback

A collection of nine short stories exploring the evils that affect modern society such as lust for power, brutal violence, wealth and family turmoil. Includes the stories Pay Day, The Middle Door, The Other Woman, The Fisherman, The Honourable Minister, Real Electric Train, and The Ivory Trinket. 250pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966469885

Ranging back and forth between satire, metaphor and stark realism, Ngugi unfolds a tangible landscape both beautiful and horrifying as tribalism and village life are manipulated in the name of progress by the cynical bureaucrats who only yesterday came to power as the leaders of the people. - City News. 345 pp. UK, PENGUIN, 0141187026

Powerfully crafted short stories from Kenya. Includes the stories Theuri, Mzee Kirui and his Radio, and Rumours. 119pp, UK. FOCUS, 9966882650.

The story of a tragedy that befalls a Luo emigrant family in East Africa, capturing the social tensions of life in rural Kenya. 205pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966467718

Reissue of a debut novel exploring the complex subject of female circumcision in this harrowing, bleakly beautiful tale of the traditional Samburu tribe of Kenya. 298pp, USA. BALLANTINE.

2004 2001 0345472497 Paperback

Novel that mixes recent history and fiction. Starting with Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda, the writer traces the fortunes of a family that takes refuge in England. 280pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement.

'It has rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity.' Times Literary Supplement

152pp. UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

In 1995, this novel won both the Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book in the Africa Region. Now reprinted, it remains in great demand. An epic story spanning cultures, it tells the lives of three generations of women. It traces the story of Akoko in her rich traditional Luo setting, through to the children who live and die in the 20th century. 292pp, KENYA. FOCUS PUBLICATIONS

Poems of torture, degradation and despair from a Kenya prison. 155pp, UK. VITA.

The story of a woman and her children left behind after her husband leaves for America in search of opportunity. A work which reflects on the often devastating conditions of poverty and globalisation. BNS, 145pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966251197

Play that explores the relationship between a male teacher and female student at various stages of life. 108pp, KENYA. MISC PUBLISHERS IN KENYA, 9966917225

2001 DELAY paperback

First published in Dholuo as 'Miaha' in 1983. Tells the story of the people of Got Owaga lead a placid, almost idyllic lifestyle until the glamorous and mysterious Nyawir suddenly appears from an unknown world. Translated into English by Okoth Okombo. 156pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 996646865X

A hilarious yet disturbing portrait of post colonial decadence, set in Kenya, presenting the brutal and ruthless landowner who dominates his region. 209pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLI., 9966468552

Story that revolves around the 1998 bomb attack on the American embassy in Nairobi. 232pp, KENYA. MISC PUBLISHERS IN KENYA, 9966970207

2002 DELAY Paperback

A play on the trial of a Mau Mau leader. 85pp. HARCOURT EDUCATION [HEINEMANN], 0435901915

An extraordinary story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. 136pp. UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Story of love and loss, racial hatred and international crime set in Germany and Kenya. BNS, 256pp, UK. TWO HUNTERS PUBLISHING, 095432630X

The story of an Englishman travelling to East Africa during the early 1980s to find an American missionary he'd become intrigued about. Ten years on, in a rural part of France, their marriage has crumbled and Norman is left to pick up the pieces. He returns to Africa to make sense of his own life and the changes wrought across the continent which shaped him. 246pp, UK. FOURTH ESTATE, 0007135076

Historical novel bringing to life some of the explorers, traders and other characters travelling the East African coast. 460pp, KENYA. KENWAY PUBLICATIONS LTD.

2004 9966252800 Paperback

New in paperback. In exile for more than twenty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in Wizard of the Crow is, in his own words, nothing less than 'to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of 2,000 years of world history.' Commencing in 'our times' and set in the 'Free Republic of Aburiria', the novel drama-tises with corrosive humour and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Ngugi reveals humanity in all its ceaselessly surprising complexity. 784pp, UK. VINTAGE.

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Love story featuring beautiful, successful career woman as heroine. 261pp, KENYA. Spear Books.

2004 9966252282 Paperback