A Grain of Wheat

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Abdulrazak Gurnah (Introduction by)

It is 1963 and Kenya is on the verge of Uhuru - independence day. The mighty British government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonised and coloniser alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there h...

The Memory Thief

Leonie Agnew

A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up. Seth has been trapped behind the iron bars of the public gardens for as long as he can remember. By day he's frozen as a statue of a shepherd boy, but as soon as the...