Aidan Hartley - The Zanzibar ChestAidan Hartley (named after Aden) is one of those British colonials who never actually returned to Britain, even if they could regard it as "home". But they still mostly stayed where their ancestors had moved. Hartley himself became a war correspondent and wittnessed number of African conflicts, not only the most ( Read more... )

Jonathan Kaplan - Contact Wounds

In his previous book, South African-born Jewish physician Jonathan Kaplan already told about some of his exploits of medicine around the world. In this book, however, he first returns back to his childhood in South Africa, in the middle of the apartheid years, including the riots like the Sharpeville Massacre ( Read more... )

Alexandra Fuller - Scribbling the Cat

In her previous book, Alexandra Fuller wrote about her childhood during the Rhodesian civil war in country that is now Zimbabwe. This time shell tells about her trip with an unstable veteran of that war, the man she only calls K ( Read more... )

Alexander McCall Smith - The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Everything I wrote previously still holds true: And Mma Ramotswe is yet to marry her intended. I wonder how many books it will take…

( Rival and romantic troubles )

Alexandra Fuller - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2001 ( Read more... )