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1952-1961
0143039644 
0141188413 
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Year: 2006
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
1782116761 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate
Resource type: Physical
0241296064 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Resource type: Physical
1845231007 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Peepal Tree
Resource type: Physical
184523295X 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Peepal Tree
Resource type: Physical
1857152131 
Book
Year: 1995
Media class: Book
Publisher: Random Ho.
Resource type: Physical
BX00285638 
Paperback
Year: 2005
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
0349014477 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Edition: [New] edition ; introduced by Kamila Shamsie
Publisher: Virago Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Laila, orphaned daughter of a distinguished Muslim family, is brought up in her grandfather's traditional household by her aunts, who keep purdah. At fifteen she moves to the home of her 'liberal' but autocratic uncle in Lucknow. As the struggle for Independence sharpens, Laila is surrounded by relatives and university friends caught up in politics, but she is unable to commit herself to any cause: her own fight for independence is a struggle against tradition.
xv, 366 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0571311547 
eBook
Year: 2015.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Faber & Faber Fiction
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature. 'Brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching.' Dylan Thomas, Observer 'Tutuola's art conceals - or rather clothes - his purpose, as all good art must do.' Chinua Achebe. Adult.
1962-1971
0141042923 
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Year: 2008
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
0571230830 
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Year: 2006
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Resource type: Physical
0141186992 
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Year: 2002
Media class: Paperback
Edition: Rev.ed.
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
0099750619 
Paperback
Year: 1998
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
20cm
X002449133 
Hardback
Year: 1967
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: World Bks.
Resource type: Physical
0333535936 
Book
Year: 1985
Media class: Book
Publisher: Macmillan
Resource type: Physical
Note: Orig. publ. 1963
0435905406 
Paperback
Year: 1989
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Resource type: Physical
014139398X 
eBook
Year: 2013.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still feels he must be untouchable - surely he is an arrow in the bow of his God? Armed with this belief, he is prepared to lead his people, even if it means destruction and annihilation. Yet the people will not be so easily dominated. Spare and powerful, Arrow of God is an unforgettable portrayal of the loss of faith, and the struggle between tradition and change. Adult.
1844086224 
Paperback
Year: 2010
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: When rain clouds gather.- Maru
BX00046531 
Hardback
Year: 2007
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Paperview
Resource type: Physical
1972-1981
0356108082 
1784873926 
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Year: 2018
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Classic
Resource type: Physical
009928409X 
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Year: 2006
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
0340993766 
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Year: 2009
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Sceptre
Resource type: Physical
BX00302839 
Paperback
Year: 2009
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pan
Resource type: Physical
1847674763 
eBook
Year: 2014.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Canongate Books
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember his childhood, to rediscover himself and his capacity for love. Adult.
1529115450 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Short story
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978 Rose and her stepmother Flo live in Hanratty, across the bridge from the good part of town. Rose, alternately fascinated and appalled by the rude energy of the people around her, grows up nursing hope of outgrowing her beginnings.
256 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
1907970622 
eBook
Year: 2015.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Daunt Books
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. Seeking fortune and opportunity, Faredoon ?Freddy? Junglewalla and his family - his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and burdensome mother-in-law - move from their ancestral village in rural India to the bustling metropolis of Lahore. Welcomed by the small but tight-knit Parsi community, Freddy soon establishes a booming business and his family becomes revered and respected. But when tragedy forces Freddy to rethink his legacy, intimations of historic change loom on the country?s horizon. Wickedly funny and searingly honest, The Crow Eaters is a vibrant portrait of a Parsi family taking its place in colonial India on the brink of the 20th century. Adult.
1908446994 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HopeRoad
Resource type: Physical
0099511894 
Paperback
Year: 2008
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
1982-1991
0330485415 
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Year: 2001
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
1398340472 
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Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Hodder Education
Resource type: Physical
185224156X 
Paperback
Year: 1991
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe
Resource type: Physical
21cm
0099740915 
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Year: 1996
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
0571258247 
Paperback
Year: 2010
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
1742287085 
eBook
Year: 2008.
Media class: eBook
Publisher: e-penguin
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir - there's only kahu. She should be the next in line for the title, but her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no use for a girl. Kahu will not be ignored. And in her struggle she has a unique ally: the whale rider himself, from whom she has inherited the ability to communicate with whales. Once that sacred gift is revealed, Kahu may be able to re-establish her people's ancestral connections, earn her great-grandfather's attention - and lead her tribe to a bold new future. Also available as an eBook. Adult.
0340936290 
Paperback
Year: 2006
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Sceptre
Resource type: Physical
1447275314 
eBook
Year: 2014.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. No. 1 Cloudstreet: a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories, with shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes, two families - the Pickles and Lambs - flee to the city and find themselves thrown together, forced to start their lives afresh. As they roister and rankle, the place that began as a roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts. Winner of Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Award, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of life and love, full of boisterous energy, joy and heartbreak. His visceral evocation of the Australian landscape is nowhere more extraordinary than in this classic. Adult.
1992-2001
0747573999 
0436204894 
Hardback 
Year: 1999
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Secker
Resource type: Physical
Note: Booker Prize winner 1999
22cm
0571192947 
1035004836 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
0571326102 
1857022254 
Paperback
Year: 1994
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Resource type: Physical
0141939230 
eBook
Year: 2001.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Adult.
074751254X 
Book 
Year: 1992
Media class: Book
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: 240pp. A novel that takes place as the Second World War is ending, and explores the lives of four very different people who find themselves sheltering together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. Booker Prize for Fiction winner 1992
0857865536 
2002-2011
1786898624 
Paperback 
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate
Resource type: Physical
1841956821 
Paperback
Year: 2006
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate
Resource type: Physical
Note: Man Booker Prize longlist, 2006
0008381690 
1780746520 
Paperback 
Year: 2014
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Oneworld
Resource type: Physical
0007200285 
Paperback
Year: 2007
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Resource type: Physical
1847674097 
eBook
Year: 2014.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Canongate Books
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le?s The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world. Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an ageing painter mourning the death of his much-younger lover; or a young refugee fleeing Vietnam, crammed in the ship's hold with 200 others, the result is unexpectedly moving and powerful. This is an extraordinary work of fiction that takes us to the heart of what it means to be human, and announces a writer of astonishing talent. Adult.
1446475913 
eBook
Year: 2011.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. Where is Pradeep S. Mathew - spin bowler extraordinaire and 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'? Retired sportswriter W. G. Karunasena is dying, and he wants to know. W.G. will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down the mysterious Pradeep. On his quest he will also uncover a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, a Tamil Tiger warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself. Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Adult.
1784162124 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Edition: Special edition ; with illustrations by Trudy White
Publisher: Black Swan
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous edition: London: Doubleday, 2007 Narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day, the wail of the sirens comes too late.
537 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
075530750X 
Paperback
Year: 2004
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Headline
Resource type: Physical
1408809656 
Paperback
Year: 2011
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
2012-2022
1783786949 
Hardback 
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Granta
Resource type: Physical
Note: 2021 Booker Prize shortlist
0008237999 
Paperback 
Year: 2017
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: 4th Estate
Resource type: Physical
1786075954 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Oneworld
Resource type: Physical
1787470474 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Quercus
Resource type: Physical
1845233352 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Peepal Tree
Resource type: Physical
1529019273 
1486221769 
eAudio
Year: 2014.
Language: English
Media class: eAudio
Edition: Unabridged ed.
Publisher: Bolinda/Audible audio
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eAudiobook. Fiction. Duration: 29:19:42. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. Adult.
0241985005 
eBook
Year: 2019.
Language: English
Media class: eBook
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Electronic material
Note: Downloadable eBook. Fiction. Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatters' palace, ready to Smash The Patriarchy with a new kind of feminist theatre. Oxford, 2008. Carole is rejecting her cultural background (Nigeria by way of Peckham) to blend in at her posh university. Northumberland, 2017. Morgan, who used to be Megan, is visiting Hattie who's in her nineties, who used to be young and strong, who fights to remain independent, and who still misses Slim every day. Welcome to Britain and twelve very different people - mostly women, mostly black - who call it home. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, Girl, Woman, Other follows them across the miles and down the years. With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents Adult.
1911547887 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Daunt
Resource type: Physical
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