Africa House - The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (Lamb Christina)(Paperback / softback)

Africa House - The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (Lamb Christina)(Paperback / softback)

In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades and rose

House of Stone - The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe (Lamb Christina)(Paperback / softback)

A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing

House of Wittgenstein - A Family At War (Waugh Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

The true story of a one-handed pianist and the fall of his aristocratic

Dream Horse - The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance - the Allotment Horse who Became a Champion (Vokes Janet)(Paperback / softback)

The heart-warming, moving story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of training a racehorse and Dream Alliance, the horse who defied the odds to become a

Cross and the Switchblade - The Greatest Inspirational True Story of All Time (Wilkerson David)(Paperback / softback)

The inspirational true story of a country preacher and his mission to the streets of New York

Mandeville (Francis Matthew)(Paperback / softback)

Purporting to describe the circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and the Middle East in 1322, the narrative is a fantastical collection of sights: seas, islands, phoenixes, pyramids, rocks that enchant ships and apes that contain human souls, interwoven with geographical

Surviving the War - based on an incredible true story of hope, love and resistance (Geffen Adiva)(Paperback / softback)

An extraordinary novel based on an incredible true story of love, resilience, survival and

Gunpowder, Apples and Cement - the story of an English country home (Cook Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

A story of a real-life English country

New Daughters of Africa - An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent(Paperback / softback)

A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of the singular and combined accomplishments of more than 200 contributors, New Daughters of Africa showcases their global sweep, diversity and achievements while also testifying to a wealth of genres: autobiography, memoir, letters, short stories,

Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust (Hingson Michael)(Paperback)

An instant New York Times bestseller, Thunder Dog tells the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the life-changing power of faith and trust in the face of terror. When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a

Masque of Africa - Glimpses of African Belief (Naipaul V. S.)(Paperback / softback)

An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane work of non-fiction from the winner of the Nobel Prize in

Exiled Collector - William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House (Sebba Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Seducers in Ecuador & The Heir (Sackville-West Vita)(Paperback / softback)

Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian

My Traitor's Heart - Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself (Malan Rian)(Paperback / softback)

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg

Story of English (McCrum Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; More widely scattered, written and spoken than any other language in history,

Big House - The Story of a Country House and its Family (Sykes Christopher Simon)(Paperback / softback)

The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250

African and Caribbean Folktales, Myths and Legends (Shearer Wendy)(Paperback / softback)

From the trickster tale of Anansi the spider, to the story of how the leopard got his spots; from the tale of the king who wanted to the moon, to Aunt Misery's magical starfruit tree. This book includes traditional favourites and classic folktales and

African Americans and Africa: A New History (Blyden Nemata Amelia Ibitayo)(Paperback)

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an 'African American' and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States' first African American president have all

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle - The Story of an African Childhood (Scott Robyn)(Paperback / softback)

Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge (Gowers Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

The astonishing true story of a nineteenth-century scoundrel and his murder at the hands of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a founding father of

Street Cat Named Bob - How one man and his cat found hope on the streets (Bowen James)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of A Christmas Gift from Bob, the original bestseller and uplifting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets of Covent Garden and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his

Spell It Out - The singular story of English spelling (Crystal David)(Paperback / softback)

Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign cars, and it stuck. This book takes you

North of South - An African Journey (Naipaul Shiva)(Paperback / softback)

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation,' 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary people. His journey of

African Love Story - Love, Life and Elephants (Sheldrick Dame Daphne)(Paperback / softback)

Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist. A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan