An Elegy for Easterly
by Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe)
Winner of The Guardian First Book Award 2009
A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty ...
Sightseeing
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (Thailand)
Boys unfold loungers on the beach as Ma watches the annual parade of holidaymakers with a knowing eye: ‘Pussy and elephants. That's all t...
Desertion
by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania)
Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the...
Runaway
by Alice Munro (Canada)
Alice Munro portrays the entrapment of everyday lives and their missed opportunities in this collection. At its centre are three stories connected ...
Fascination
by William Boyd (United Kingdom)
Published in 2004, this is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his earlier collections “On the Yankee Station” (1981...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba (Malawi)
Co-authored by Bryan Mealer
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled, modern science was a mystery, hunger and dro...
