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    Torn

    Torn

    David Massey

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    Afghanistan. In the heat and dust, young British army medic Elinor Nielson watches an Afghan girl...

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    Egusi Soup

    Janice Okoh

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    As the Anyias, a British-Nigerian family, pack their suitcases and prepare to head home to Lagos for...

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Lady in Waiting
Lady in Waiting
Anne Glenconner | 2020 | Biography, History & Politics
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"Anne’s frank, witty memoir of her incredible life within the nexus of British aristocracy—born the daughter of an earl, she was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret and married to one of the most colorful eccentrics of the 20th century, Colin Tennant, the man who bought a barren rock in the Caribbean and turned it into the fabled jet-set paradise of Mustique."

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Richard Dawkins recommended Red Strangers in Books (curated)

 
Red Strangers
Red Strangers
Elspeth Huxley | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"This epic saga sweeping through four generations of life among Kenya’s Kikuyu tribe is a novel of Steinbeckian stature neglected by literary connoisseurs. Huxley leads us into the Kikuyu world so that, when the British arrive, they seem as alien as invading Martians. Her descriptive powers rival Steinbeck’s, but her imagery is drawn from the Kikuyu mind. A felled tree ‘tottered like a drunken elder.'

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