Reviewing: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Shortlisted for The Orange Prize 2011, The Memory of Love is Aminatta Forna’s second novel, and what a…
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Revisiting a classic: Their Eyes Were Watching God
A novel that took Zora Neale Hurston seven weeks to write, took me four hours to fall in…
Books for young adults, and the not so young..
There’s nothing like getting lost in a piece of fiction and we love nothing more than discovering new…
Book review: Of Murder, Muses and Me by Claudia Chibici Revneanu
Of Murder, Muses and Me is a debut book from Austrian writer Claudia Chibici Revneanu that came out…
Our new book release favourites
Calling all book lovers. We’ve put together an eclectic mix of new book releases that we think should…
Book review: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83
Winning the English Pen Award and having your debut novel longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 is…
Reviewing: James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man
If you haven’t yet discovered Going to Meet the Man, by social critic and writer, James Baldwin, a…
Book review: White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Described by The Guardian as a “satire of cultural appropriation”, White Tears is the 5th novel by writer…
Reviewing: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Our book editor, Vanessa Thomas, revisits this Toni Morrison classic, which due to its controversial subjects, has seen…
What to read on your summer holidays?
Looking to top up your book collection, or perhaps you’re looking for a gift for a friend? We’ve…
Book Review: Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
What happens when a woman is so desperate to get pregnant that she breastfeeds a goat? Described as…
Book Review: No Place to Call Home
No Place To Call Home is a fictional tale exploring a family that flees the political violence of…
Remembering Buchi Emecheta, OBE
Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, OBE, widely regarded as one of Africa’s finest writers, passed away aged 72 earlier this…
Reviewing: The Hate U Give
This young adult debut novel by Angie Thomas came out in April 2017 and it was certainly a…
What happened at this year’s Africa Writes event?
If you are a bookwork and love African writers, publishers, poets and all things literature, then you were…