‘A great novel ... bone-chilling black satire … it deserves many readings’ New York TimesA mock epic of explosive power, Bound to Violence races through the history of the …
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, …
'A scorching portrayal of a woman's life . . . the female, feminist counterpart to Things Fall Apart' Bernardine Evaristo'God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in …
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer A dazzlingly …
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the …
The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the …
'Sad, sonorous, occasionally hilarious, an extraordinary first novel' Washington Post'Striking . . . brings sexism and classism into equal focus' The Paris ReviewAdah is a single …
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa.In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan …
