By the author of THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL. Karsan Dargawalla, heir to the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi begins to tell the story of his family and the destroyed shrine in the aftermath of the violence that gripped western India in 2002. His tale begins in the 1960s, and young Karsan wishes above all else to be ordinary. and when he is accepted to Harvard he can't resist the opportunity to escape his hereditary obligation. After a bitter quarrel with his father that leads him to abdicate his succession, he marries and has a son in Canada, but after tragedy strikes in Canada and India, he is drawn back after thirty years to see if anything is left for him. A story of grand historical sweep and intricate personal drama, evoking the physical and emotional landscape of a man caught between the ancient and the modern, between legacy and discovery, between the most daunting filial obligation and the most undeniable personal yearning. 336pp, UK. CANONGATE.

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.

Adela and her close friend Keti jokingly enter a village beauty context, the beginning of a series of adventures. Reading practice for low secondary students. 133pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

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.

Story of two sisters, Taiyo and Resian, who are on the verge of womanhood and torn between their personal ambitions and the humiliating duty to the Nasila tradition. Relocation to their rural home heralds a cultural alienation born of their refusal to succumb to circumcision and early marriages. 302pp, KENYA. LONGHORN.

Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. Beginning with sporadic, brutal attacks by dispossessed Kikuyu on the British now occupying their land, attacks often executed with nothing more than traditional panga knives, the conflict escalates as the terrified British stop at nothing to re-impose order, eventually driving most of the Kikuyu population into the prison camps of what has become known as 'Britain's Gulag'. 80pp, UK. JONATHAN CAPE.

Once a fortnight, the nomadic settlement of Madidima, set deep in the dusty Kenyan desert, awaits the arrival of three camels laden down with panniers of books. This is the Camel Bookmobile, a scheme set up to bring books to scattered peoples whose daily life is dominated by drought, famine and disease. Into their world comes an unexpected wealth of literature - from the adventures of Tom Sawyer to strange vegetarian cookbooks and Dr Seuss. With "Reading Group" notes. 336pp, UK. PHOENIX.

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

1974 9966460403 Paperback

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.

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.

1997 9966469931 Paperback

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.

In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm, where a series of unexplained and violent attacks threaten her security and recent marriage. Sarah is studying elephant behaviour in an area made dangerous by armed poachers, using her work as a salve for the death of her childhood sweetheart. Camilla, the international fashion icon, abandons her career in London and is drawn back to Kenya by her love for a charismatic hunter and safari guide. But there is a secret that hangs over Langani, overshadowing their efforts to establish themselves in the volatile circumstances of a new African nation. With the help of an ambitious Indian journalist, the three girls gradually uncover the truth about the murder of Sarah's fiance, and the continuing attacks on the farm and on their lives. This sequel to Blood Sisters confronts catastrophic loss and delirious happiness, savagery and degradation, limitless beauty, soaring hope and redemption. 512pp, UK. VINTAGE.

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.

New edition with an introduction by Prof. Simon Gikandi. 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. 267pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN CLASSICS.

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.

New in paperback. Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb over - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his friends at the Asadi Club know it, but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the Tuesday morning bird walk of the East African Ornithological Society, Rose Mbikwa. 208pp, UK. PENGUIN.

Historical novel. Two hundred years ago, a girl was born into the Oromo tribe. At a time when men ruled the world and young women had no authority whatsoever, Hawecha gradually rose to a position of unprecedented leadership and power. She became the most famous prophetess of the Oromo people, saving them from famine, pestilence, war and death. 198pp, KENYA. LONGHORN.

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.

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.

Fourteen years after independence, the enduring childhood friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland. Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they struggle to protect their wildlife and land from poachers and corrupt officials. But the developing relationship between their daughter and a young African boy with a terrifying legacy tests the strength of their family. Sarah Singh, wildlife researcher and renowned photographer, is married to an Indian journalist. However, their inability to have children puts Sarah's relationship with her husband and his family under increasing pressure. Camilla Broughton Smith, international model and fashion designer, has given up a dazzling career to work with the charismatic safari guide Anthony Chapman, who has been disabled in a tragic accident. Yet his bitterness and fear of commitment threaten to shatter her dreams. This is the final part of the Langani Trilogy, a story of courage and fortitude, of loyalty and murderous deceit, of friendship and betrayal and redeeming sacrifice. 512pp, UK. HARVILL SECKER.

In this story, Seth Karanja, Madam's professional driver, is having an extremely bad day. Tribe has risen against tribe and his niece, Wacera, has fallen pregnant. To do Madam's bidding, move from place to place and think calmly of a solution to his niece's pregnancy, Seth has to watch out for the machetes on the street. Wambui Mwangi revisits a Nairobi under siege after the 2007 elections, and presents a day in the life of this character as Kenya burns. 54pp, KENYA. KWANI TRUST.

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.

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.

After completing her undergraduate studies Monika Saliku anxiously waits to see what shape her career will take. For her it is a foregone conclusion that she will get an appointment in the city and savour the familiar throb of urban life. However she receives a setback when she is appointed to a bucolic outpost settling for a career she loathes. As she journeys to the small dusty town her struggle to self-realisation has just begun. 186pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

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.

When Sembe discovers that Amu, her husband of fifteen years, is having an affair with another woman, she moves out of the matrimonial home, but is persuaded to return by relatives and friends. However, a few months later, when Amu comes home to reveal that his mistress is pregnant with his child, every-thing crumbles. The social networks, customs and love that had restrained her from leaving him initially are overcome by the deep feelings of betrayal. The spouses, unable to resolve the matter amicably, immerse in a needless and senseless altercation that culminates in a physical fight. Sembe moves out of the matrimonial home and the marriage collapses. The spouses are left to struggle for the custody of their three daughters and, the ownership of matrimonial property in the plush Kenya suburb of Kileleshwa, through a corrupt Kenyan judicial system. Kileleshwa is a tale of love, betrayal and corruption, set on a background of ethnic conflict, political uncertainty and very difficult economic times. 324pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

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

Can Deni, Wairi, Yaadi, matatu people, militia people and taxi drivers in Kenya also ask: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? 254pp, KENYA. TWAWEZA COMMUNICATIONS.

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 witnessing the deaths of his former white masters. This novel focuses on the relationship between black people and white people. 128pp, UK. HEINEMANN CARIBBEAN WRITERS SERIES.

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.

1998 9966221492 Paperback

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 PUBLICATIONS.

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 PUBLICATIONS.

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

1997 9966465995 Paperback

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.

2001 9966999310 Paperback

A young and beautiful white woman is murdered in the US, and the prime suspect is former Rwandan school headmaster, Joshua a hero who had risked his life to save the innocent during Rwanda’s genocide. Ishmael, an African American detective, must investigate the case by plunging himself into Joshua’s past. He travels to Kenya, where Joshua once lived as a refugee, and finds himself unearthing his own African identity as he uncovers this violent crime. 165pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

Collects over sixty pieces of his recent verse chosen on the basis of artistic merit and social relevance. The poems focus sharply on the tumultuous period between the General Elections of 2007 and August 4th Referendum of 2010. Some of the poems relate to events drawn out of earlier moments in Kenyan history but are invoked as contexts of the recent discord. 184pp, CAMEROON. LANGAA RPCIG.

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.

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 PUBLISHERS.

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.

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

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 PUBLISHERS.

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

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

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 PUBLISHERS.

Narcotics chief Jacinta Gatheru shakes up the criminal world. 171pp, KENYA. FOCUS PUBLICATIONS LTD.

2004 9966882995 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 PUBLISHERS.

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 PUBLISHERS.

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

2002 9966970207 Paperback

Saga of the life and times of the settlers and farmers of East Africa (Kenya and Tanganyika), spanning a period from the First World War until self-government loomed in the 1950s. This is a novel in two parts. The first depicting the harsh life of the colonial farmers as they struggled to make a living between the wars, while the second part has their lives developing as new influences appear following WWII, with the advent of better communications, new technologies, and new ideas. At the heart of the story is Heinrich, of German descent in German East Africa, later to become Tanganyika (and later still Tanzania), who farms coffee on a plantation near Mount Kilimanjaro. The whole cast of characters (many of whom are obviously drawn from real life) are connected to him, be it from the nearby mission school, the airborne veterinary service or merely as neighbours. 488pp, UK. STAMFORD HOUSE PUBLISHING

2007 9781904985495 Paperback

A play on the trial of a Mau Mau leader. 85pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Mazrui's novel of the Biafran war. 145pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

1971 0435900978 Paperback

New edition. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a rubbish heap and look into their futures. Njoroge is excited; his family has decided that he will attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. Together they will serve their country - the teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya and the times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. 140pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

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. 256pp, UK. TWO HUNTERS PUBLISHING.

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.

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

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.

2007 2006 0099502685 Paperback

Fledgling democracy emerges from post-colonial corruption in this story. b/w ill, 132pp, KENYA . EAST AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS.

2001 996625045X Paperback

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

2004 9966252282 Paperback