Ayana Mathis Fifteen years old and blazing with the hope of a better life, Hattie Shepherd fled the horror of the American South on a dawn train bound for Philadelphia.Hattie’s...

Rebecca Skloot   Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend...

Paul Bowles The landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul Bowles In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an...

Ishmael Beah A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone.Named one of the Christian Science Monitor 's best fiction books of 2014With the gentle...

Harriet Beecher Stowe When Eliza Harris learns her son is to be sold to another master, she flees the Kentucky plantation where she is held as a slave, while Uncle...

Alexander McCall Smith   Botswana PI Precious Ramotswe investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official, and the moral character of four beauty contestants. When her...

Zadie Smith   "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream...

Abraham Verghese   Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British...

Author: Chris Cleave We don't want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.Nevertheless, you need to...

Alexander McCall Smith   Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first audiobook, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the...

Alexander McCall Smith Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a...