By Gaele Sobott. What can we do about the hole in the sky? Paint it blue? Thara and the Cassipoohka man try to find the answer, and in the process they discover who and what is making this big black hole tha…

By Stephen Alumenda. When Thandiwe, Akedu’s best friend, drowns, he feels a great emptiness enter his life. But slowly in a simple, unclouded way, and with the help of his teacher, he grows to accept death a…

By Richard Rayner. Umboko is a baby elephant with a problem: his tusks just will not grow. He seeks advice from his elders and is sent to the hamerkop, said to be the wisest bird on the continent. After wait…

By Andre Proctor. This story tells how a school is the children and their parents, forming its heart and overcoming obstacles which would inhibit growth and learning. The new teacher, Mr. Nvuu is a stiff man…

This is another wonderful book for children from the author of The Hare in the Moon, Margaret H. Tredgold. 13,95$ / 4,95£ format : 234 x 156 mm

This book tells the story of how White Rhodesians, three-quarters of whom were ill- prepared for revolutionary change, reacted to the « terrorist » war and the onset of black rule in the 1970s. It shows how inter…

By Chenjerai Hove. A reissue of this proclaimed novel, and Zimbabwean classic, that won both the Zimbabwe Book Publishers’ Association first prize for literature, and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa …

Novel by Binwell Sinyangwe. Woza is a very ambitious, highly intelligent student, who is in his final year at school, and determined to follow his brother’s example and go to university in the UK. Temperamen…

Novel by Alexander Kanengoni. Munashe Mungate, the novel’s main character, is a doubting man who is swept up in a wave of history in the Zimbabwean liberation war and its aftermath, and the effects on the ps…

Winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize. Charles Mungoshi is one of Africa’s foremost creative writers – both for adults and children – and a past winner of The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. This n…

By Richard Rayner. The damming of the mighty Zambezi…the creation of the 280km long Lake Kariba…Operation Noah which rescued thousand of creatures from the rising floodwaters is an epic roundly engraved …

Novel by Yvonne Vera. A novel of delicacy and insight, evoking the power and mystery of the Zimbabwean past. 21,95$ / 13,95£ format : 203 x 127 mm

This updated edition includes a preface about new developments in Zimbabwean sculpture in the 1990s and pictures of sculptures by some of Zimbabwe’s latest new talent. Zimbabwean sculptors rank among the best i…

Winner of the German Foundation for Book Art and Design, best designed book from developing countries. This beautifully produced book, with many vivid colour photographs, is a collaboration between rural Africa…