Set in Rhodesia, 1943. Paul Bryant hasn't been able to get back in a plane since a fatal bombing mission over Germany. So, instead, the Squadron Leader is flying a desk at a pilot training school at Khumalo Air Base. But one of his trainees has just been reported missing. Pip Lovejoy, a volunteer policewoman, is also trying to suppress painful memories. When Felicity Langham, a high profile WAAF from the air base, is found raped and murdered, Pip and Bryant's paths cross. 432pp, UK. PAN.

The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war, a story that begins with them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, the family's move to Africa and the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. 274pp, UK. FOURTH ESTATE.

This new story by the Zimbabwean author tells the tale of a nobleman and his wife, an apothecary nun, an astronomer mathematician, an inquisitor, a poet and a queen and their entangled relationships in a North African setting. Gloss, 224pp, UK. BANTAM, 0593051785

A novella in which outcasts holed up inside a ruined and deserted faculty building tell of their experiences in the post colonial disaster zone. This volume also includes three short stories and two poems. 171pp, UK. LAWRENCE & WISHART.

Christian is a press photographer with a `cockroach eye view' of life moving across the span of a society in disorder, giving hasty glimpses of its chaos. 117pp, UK. HARCOURT EDUCATION NETQUOTEVAR:HEINEMANN, 0435902377

1980 Paperback

A collection of poetry reflecting upon the plight of the individual and the state of the author's birthplace and nation, Zimbabwe. 58pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

Poet, novelist and editor, Hove's fiction expresses the experience of the liberation war in Zimbabwe and its impact on the Shona. A prose poem, Bones explores the role that woman have played in the liberation of the country and the betrayals of its people by the nationalist government through the story of Marita, a farm labourer on a white farm. 112pp, ZIMBABWE. BAOBAB BOOKS.

Long-awaited second novel from one of the acclaimed author of 'Nervous Conditions'. It traces Tambu’s continuing quest to redefine the personal, political and historical forces that threaten to destroy the fabric of her community, revealing how the aftermath of the liberation war still bedevils Zimbabweans today and constitutes a system calculated to destabilize the sense of self. Tambu’s search for self-knowledge reveals that the process of decolonisation might have started; but it is far from finished. 256pp, UK. AYEBIA.

A psychiatrist waits in State House, Harare, for his first encounter with a most unusual patient. Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, is in crisis, and Andrew Peric must discover the root of his anxiety. But can Mugabe be treated like any other patient? Witty and provocative, Fraser Grace's new play imagines the combative relationship between the black president and his white psychiatrist. In a series of bruising encounters, it explores the conflict between despotism and liberalism in modern Zimbabwe. Gloss, 80pp, UK. OBERON BOOKS .

A story set in Makokoba in the 1940s by one of Africa's leading women novelists. It captures the bitter-sweet flavour of township life. 151pp, USA, FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX.

New edition of a collection of stories shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2000 from the winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers Prize (African Region).Gloss, 154 pp. UK. African Writers Series.

A collection of short stories and poems by the Zimbabwean author, evoking the sights and sounds of the country. 74pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Set in Zimbabwe, and features Chief Inspector Caleb Dube and his assistant, Sergeant Musindo. The drama unfolds as the assiduous Dube is driving home to Gweru one Sunday evening and discovers the body of a well-dressed man in a storm drain at the turn-off to St Francis Mission. Who is the victim and why was he killed? The investigation that follows, uncovers a world of greed and exploitation. Gloss, 150pp, ZIMBABWE. MAMBO PRESS. DELAY.

A comprehensive collection of over 140 poems, many previously unpublished. Compiled with notes by his biographer, Flora Veit Wild. Includes an interview with Marechera on poetry and a list of publications containing his poems. 222pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Explores the plight of Farai Chari, a supposedly successful writer, professor and self-acclaimed artist, living in an African culture in which tradition weighs heavy and middle class aspirations are crude. Farai yearns for a world in which men and women can freely associate with one another and gratify their passions without moral chastisement. A meditation on male chauvin-ism, moral self-righteousness and mental break-down. 192pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

Her paternal grandfather was shot and beheaded by the 'kneeless' in front of her father's popping eyes, but Chinongwa can't be sure if this story is real. It is so intertwined with evening tales of conversational snakes and men being buried with mice tied to their backs, she has problems disentangling fact from fantasy. But at age nine reality sets in as she is given to a man older than her father for food. And after her first-born comes to her at age eleven, and after she is widowed at age twenty-five, and after she is dirtied at twenty-six, and after giving birth to her tenth at twenty-seven - is there any longer a place for Chinongwa in dreams? Gloss, 208pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STE PUBLISHERS.

These ten short stories from the prize-winning Zimbabwean writer, were banned in (the then) Rhodesia, but some were published in Europe. One of the stories, 'The Setting Sun and the Rolling World', gave its title to another acclaimed collection. 61pp, ZIMBABWE, ZIMBABWE PUBLISHING HOUSE

Fourth comic novel from this Zimbabwean English teacher, a part-pastiche of Enid Blyton adventure stories, mocking fundamentalism, racial intolerance and pseudo-intellectualism. 100pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Short stories by Caine Prize short-listed author. Gloss, 81pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Anthology of short stories that acknowledges the author's debt to the protection of prostitutes during the war of liberation, the victims of a society that forces women into utter dependence on men, but produces a host of abandoned women to fend for themselves: widows, orphans, rape victims and other outcasts. 130pp, ZIMBABWE. SELF-PUBLISHED TITLE.

2002 0797423672 Paperback

New, slightly revised edition. A sharply perceieved evocation of changing life in rural Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1070s. Narrated from the perspective of a young boy it deals both with changing social circumstances and values as well as with his own personal awakening as an adult. Gloss, xiv, 218pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

In this short novel, the author relates the traumatic history of those who fought to create a modern Zimbabwe, expressing the madness that can grip a nation. Gloss, 136pp, ZIMBABWE. BAOBAB BOOKS.

Short stories tracing the hearts and minds of Zimbabwean characters living through years of war. This title won the 1995 Zimbabwe Publishers' Literary Awards. B/w illus, 114pp, ZIMBABWE. BAOBAB BOOKS.

Sequel to LAST ORDERS AT HARRODS. While Charity Mupanga has to admit that the memory of someone born during East Africa's Great Flood of 1932 might not be entirely reliable, she has no doubt that the two paw paws have also gone missing. Suspicion first falls on Titus Ntoto, 15-year-old leader of the Mboya Boys, Kireba's toughest gang, and then on Ferdinand Mlumba, kitchen toto turned police informer, universally reviled as 'Fatboy'. The explanation of this bizarre theft (and how Fatboy wins back his name) is revealed when Jasper Japer, visiting UK television satirist, is caught up in a clash between a gang of street kids and a group of Japanese tourists. 245pp, UK. ABACUS.

A vivid tale about a child's disability and his struggle to overcome prejudice in Zimbabwe. Themes of spiritualism and ritual murder run through the story. 72pp, ZIMBABWE. NO ISBN

The story of the murder of a white woman, the confession of their black servant and the explosive racial tensions of Zimbabwe. 256pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

A fictionalised account of Chimurenga history. ZIMBABWE. BAOBAB BOOKS.

A novel set a gainst the background of the civil war which led to independence for Zimbabwe. 248pp, UK African Writers Series.

1990 0435905821 Paperback

New edition of Eppel's second novel, a trawl through the hypocrisies and abuse of privilege of Zimbabwe's elites, black and white. 123pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Satirical novel by the prize-winning writer about the white community in Bulawayo. Illustrated with b/w artwork by Sindiso Nyoni. 115pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Born in 1952 in Zimbabwe, poet, playwright and novelist, Marechera's short, turbulent life is echoed through his work. Realist and experimental, this is a collection of nine short stories which expresses Marechera's alienation with his Shona roots, the brutality of the townships and the Rhodesian government. Influenced by and compared to the European tradition of Modernist writers, he has been outspoken and controversial about issues of language and nationalism and has been criticised for choosing to write in English. 154pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES

A novel about an African Methodist family in colonial Zimbabwe and their struggle to gain an education for one of their members. Map, xviii, 221pp, ZIMBABWE. SAPES.

New paperback edition. Satirical novel by the Zimbabwean-born former Africa editor of the London Financial Times. Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntu, some threatening letters from London lawyers are beginning to overwhelm her. 320pp, UK. ABACUS.

Weaver Press's previous collections of short stories, WRITING NOW and WRITING STILL, were highly praised for the quality of their prose and the imagination of their writers. They confirmed, for one reviewer, 'the paradoxical truth that troubled societies somehow produce some of the most interesting writing available. Laughing Now goes further, and demonstrates the enduring capacity of Zimbabweans to find humour in even the most difficult of circumstances. The stories embrace funerals, dancing competitions, family tensions, rampant inflation and endless queues for scarce goods. They take a wry look at pompous politicians, foreign filmmakers and the aspirations of the so-called 'new' farmers'. 124pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

A novel of delicacy and insight, evoking the power and mystery of the Zimbabwean past. 118pp, USA, 0920661416

New British edition. Tambudzai is a young girl growing up in rural Zimbabwe when her uncle offers her the chance to become a student at his mission school. This education offers a way out of poverty but also the burden of cultural alienation and a heavy psychological price. Includes a new introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and an interview with the author. xi, 212pp, UK. AYEBIA, 0954702336

Short stories by emerging Zimbabwean writers that capture many of the realities of the contemporary situation in the country. 235pp, ZIMBABWE. COLLEGE PRESS PUBLICATIONS Pvt Ltd, 1779003862

2000 DELAY paperback

Tragi-comic stories from the depths of Zimbabwe's crisis. 124pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

Four traditional Zimbabwean folk tales. B/w and col illus. 63pp, ZIMBABWE. ACADEMIC AND BAOBAB BOOKS.

1991 0908311303 Paperback

When Rhodesian expatriate Vaughn Bourke returns to Zimbabwe to exhume the graves of his family from their farm, Hopelands, he does so to escape the failure of his life in Australia. His marriage and professional life are in tatters; he needs a change of scene. But while he knows the farm is under threat of seizure from a ruthless group of 'war veterans', Vaughn has no idea of the nightmare that awaits him in a country where violence and anarchy are the order of the day. Through the brutal disintegration of a once close-knit family, this novel provides a disturbing and trenchant insight into the violent maelstrom of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

A classic novel on the Rhodesian War set in the highly volatile area of Senga on the north eastern border of Rhodesia. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GALAGO BOOKS.

Anthology of selected poems by the prize-winning Zimbabwean poet spanning the years 1965 to 1995. Offers a unique record of life during those turbulent years. Illustrated with b/w artwork. Introduction by Dan Wylie. 73pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS, 0797423095

Struggling against madcap drivers, pompous bureaucrats and other woes of life in the city, the man in the shebeen sees modern Africa as it really is, not as press releases or tourist brochures would have us believe. In these short stories, the author presents a view of modern Zimbabwe seen through the eyes of the man in the shebeen, and with a wry sense of humour describes a society in a troubled world. 128pp, UK. SERIF, 1897959168

A collection of short stories and poems evoking the diversity of Zimbabwe's second city and its rural surroundings. Many of the stories have not been published before, though a few well known names are represented, such as John Eppel, Pathisa Nyathi and Terence Ranger. 134pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

A collection of short stories and poems that take the reader on a journey through the townships of Bulawayo. Contributors include John Eppel, Catherine Buckle and Pathisa Nyathi. 116pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

A collection of 32 short stories and poems that take the reader on a journey through the social and physical landscapes of Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo. Contributors include John Eppel, Brian Chikwava and Pathisa Nyathi. 149pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Harare has been pulling people into its environs for well over a century. The city's townships are inhabited by strangers and old acquaintances, hardened old-timers and naive newcomers, who embrace a mixture of languages, traditions and confusions. Wonder Guchu sketches some of these land and cityscapes, where rumour, reality and urban myth converge. BNS, 150pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

Newly reissued and widely available outside Africa for the first time, these stories by one of Zimbabwe's most prolific and successful writers, were originally composed in the 1970s. They represent a sample of the author's earliest fictional endeavours. The collection comprises: 'The Mount of Moriah'; 'Who Will Stop the Dark'; 'The Brother'; 'White Stones and Red Earth'; 'Some Kinds of Wounds'; 'The Victim'; 'A Need for Shelter'; 'The Day the Bread Van Didn't Come'; and 'The Flood'. BNS, 179pp, ZIMBABWE. MAMBO PRESS.

First collection from an emerging Zimbabwean poet. 50pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Eighty poems ranging from juvenilia to those written in his fifties, spanning Zimbabwe's recent turbulent history. 134pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

Togara Muzanenhamo's first collection of poems evokes a number of worlds, familiar and unfamiliar. He takes us from his vivid, vanished childhood in Zimbabwe to Europe, where he lived for some years, making as he goes the stories and connections that coax a meaning out of time and change. These are less poems of memory than of creation. There exists a fractured world, partly hidden from the poet, in which dream makes a different kind of order. 64pp, UK. CARCANET.

A collection of short stories narrated by a policeman, Greg Stanyon, and centred around Zimbabwe's protracted and bloody liberation war. The stories fuse clarity of observation with a sense of the pity and pain of the conflict. They cast doubt on the necessity of war, and illustrate that coming to terms with, and recovering from war require a process of truth-telling from different perspectives. Derek Huggins' previously published fiction appears in Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe. BNS, 120pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

A haunting narrative of murder, love and betrayal as two sisters make the transition from liberation war and its infinite promise to the catastrophe of the gukurahundi that swept through Matabeleland in the 1980s, Zimbabwe's still unspoken war. 184pp, USA. FARRAR, STRAUSS AND GIROUX 0374528942

2002 Paperback

A collection of traditional tales retold by Charles Mungoshi.

1989 Paperback

The story of seven young Zimbabwean abducted from a remote border village. After much adventure and tribulation, they are forced to live on the street where they must become 'streetwise' to survive. 117pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

2007 Noma award winner. A dark exposé of the tension between modernity and tradition, and deep insights into culture in Zimbabwe in the new century. Chinodya explores the powerful draw that conflicting ideologies exercise over an emerging middle-class that at once yearns for autonomy and unconsciously desires the irresponsibility of an all-pervading destiny. 234pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

New Flamingo edition. A much acclaimed collection of stories vividly evoking both the grandeur of Africa and the tensions between blacks and whites. 378pp, UK. FLAMINGO, 0006545432

The story of Tamari, a fourteen year old Zimbabwean girl living with her brother and three lodgers. Her parents have died and she must cope with school bullies, the onset of puberty, her avaricious uncle who is meant to look after her. 68pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS, 177922026X

Set during the 1930s in Colonial controlled Rhodesia, a young white woman moves to the country to right the wrongs of her missionary father, who left Africa in ignominy. Her naivety about the country and its white rulers however, leads her into the drama of the colonial enterprise. 312pp, UK, 0747270465

Powerful short stories portraying the country the author grew up in and clash of cultures between black and white in South Africa. Includes the stories The Old Chief Mshlanga, A Sunrise on the Veld and Little Tembi. 418pp, UK. FLAMINGO.

Now in paperback. An evocative novel by a Zimbabwean writer, telling the story of Primo Verona, a professional magician, mixing magical realism with themes of love, war, death, betrayal and the afterlife. Gloss, 248pp, UK. BANTAM, 055277166X

Through the various and complex lives of Onai Moyo - a market woman and responsible mother of three children, and her best friend Katy Nguni - a vendor and black-market currency dealer - we are given an insight into the challenges that face those who only survive by their wits, their labour and their mutual support. In doing so Tagwira aptly captures how precarious the future is for the inhabitants of Mbare, Zimbabwe in 2005. The story of these two close friends is situated in a high-density suburb. However, the author also introduces a much wider cross-section of Zimbabwean society: Tom Sibanda, a young business man and farmer, his girlfriend, Faith, a law student, Toms sister Emily, a health professional, and Mawaya, the ostensible beggar. With depth and sensitivity, Tagwira pulls these many threads into a densely woven novel that provides us with some of the many faces of contemporary Zimbabwe. 182pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

A novel exploring the harsh secrets that families hold and the betrayals that they engender. 113pp, ZIMBABWE. ACADEMIC AND BAOBAB BOOKS, 0908311931

1996 Paperback

Davey is in the attic when the gang comes. At sixteen, he's almost the man his father wants him to be, and almost the child he was. But something from beyond the ages keeps him above, locked in shock, as beneath him his parents are murdered and his family's farm is 'reclaimed'. The neighbouring farmers - his parents' closest friends - take him in and try to care for him, try to bring him back into their community of normality - the club, the church, after a few weeks, his boarding school. They look to cope, like their people have always done. But Davey is on a different path. One night he escapes from his school and embarks on a harrowing, terrifying journey, coming home to Edenfields, looking for redemption. 243pp, UK. POCKET BOOKS.

An evocation of childhood, this tells the story of two young sisters, Nyree and Cia O'Callohan, who live on a remote farm in what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Bvumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfather, Oupa, theirs is a seductive world laced with African paganism, bastardised Catholicism and the lore of the Brothers Grimm - until their idyll is shattered forever by their orphaned cousin, Ronin. His arrival at the farm sets in motion a chain of events that result in tragedy and the loss of innocence. Gloss, 245pp UK. VIRAGO.

The story of a young man determined to leave his village and see the modern world.180pp, ZIMBABWE. ZIMBABWE PUBLISHING HOUSE.

Portrays people whose lives have been challenged by war and its aftermath, by changing cultural values and by family commitments in a world that has lost its certitude. 167pp, ZIMBABWE. BAOBAB BOOKS.

Stories set in the years of the armed struggle, of the women who stayed behind after the men went to war. 96pp, CANADA, TSAR PUBLICATIONS

A collection of short stories and poems by the Bulawayo-based lyricist and satirist. 83pp, ZIMBABWE. AMABOOKS.

Two novels about the 1970s guerrilla war in Zimbabwe. Without a Name tells the story of Mazvita, a young woman who journeys from rural Mubaira to the chaos of late 1970s Harare, a hotbed of violent political action and revolutionary social change. In Under the Tongue, Vera deals with the problem of incest, the nature of relationships and the necessity of language and expression, silence and sorrow. This new American edition combines both books. 234pp, USA. FARRAR, STRAUS & GIRAUX INC, 0374528160

Fifteen stories which offer a kaleidoscope of fresh, moving, and comic perspectives on the way in which events of the last decade have impacted on individuals, women in particular. Several stories (Tagwira, Ndlovu and Charsley) look at the impact that AIDS has on women who become the care-givers, often without emotional or physical support. It is often assumed that women will provide support and naturally make the necessary sacrifices. Brickhill and Munsengezi focus on the hidden costs and unexpected rewards of this nurturing role. Many families have been separated over the last decade. Ndlovu, Mutangadura, Katedza, Mhute and Rheam all explore exile's long, often painful, reach and the consequences of deciding to remain at home. In lighter vein, but with equal sharpness of perception, Gappah, Manyika, Sandi, and Holmes poke gentle fun at the demands of new-found wealth, status and manners. Gloss, 134pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS.

The sequel to Writing Still. New Stories from Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2003), this new collection of short stories paints an engaging and challenging picture of contemporary life in Zimbabwe. Many of the stories reflect lives of hardship and privation, though equally demon-strating sharp humour, vivid fantasy and exemplary style. The volume brings together the writing of young and upcoming Zimbabwean writers with new work from established and successful writers such as Shimmer Chinodya, Pat Brickhill, Julius Chingono, John Eppel, Chiedza Musengezi, Charles Mungoshi and Brian Chikwava. 320pp, ZIMBABWE. WEAVER PRESS. BNS

A collection of stories by contemporary Zimbabwean writers,

including Yvonne Vera, Charles Mungoshi, Alexander Kanengoni, Rory Kilalea, Shimmer Chinodya and Nevanji Madanhire among many others. Also includes the winner of the Caine Prize 2004, Brian Chikwava, and his winning story Seventh Street Alchemy. Gloss, 254pp, ZIMBABWE