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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

Africa

• North Africa
• West Africa
• East Africa
• Central Africa
• Southern Africa

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  The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

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  Compared to the likes of Isabel Allende, Ahdaf Soueif has written a compelling and passionate love story between an English woman and an Egyptian nationalist set in 1900. The details of their affair are gradually uncovered by Isabel, their descendent, who follows her own heart to Egypt some 100 years later. Short-listed for the Man Booker prize, this novel is beautifully written and very readable.

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  Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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  This politically indignant, passionate novel tells the story of a murder in a Kenyan town and the four people who come under suspicion. Hugely controversial on its publication in 1977, wa Thiong'o was arrested for its portrayal of a greedy and corrupt post-colonial Kenya.

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  On Black Sisters' Street by Chika Unigwe

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  An accomplished and fast-paced novel following the lives of four different women who have made their way from Africa to the red light district of Brussels.

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  Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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  A gripping novel set in Ethiopia. The characters wrestle with their family scandals as their country descends into revolution.

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  Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson

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  Blessing and her brother Ezikiel take their privileged life in Lagos for granted until the day their father leaves them to be with another woman. When their mother loses her job, the family must adapt to life in a pokey compound in the Niger Delta. Poignant, funny and politically engaged, this year’s Costa winner is a gripping story of a young girl who learns that it is possible to survive almost anything.

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  Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

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  Subtitled 'A Novel about Journalists', this is Waugh's comic satire on Fleet Street. Incompetent William Boot is mistakenly sent to cover a war in an imaginary African country over-run by journalists frantic to get the front-page news. Typical snappy prose from Waugh.