Books

A unique range of recipes from all Kenyan communities, using a wealth of interesting ingredients. Insights into cooking and household management in Kenya, with useful words and phrases in Kiswahili.

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is an acute and bittersweet novel of identity and family, of lost love and abiding friendship, and of the insidious legacy of the British Empire.

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and diasporic Hadhrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya.

The River and The Source won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in 1995 and The Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for the Best First Book, Africa region.

Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya's railroad.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman's extraodinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.

From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.

A powerful contribution to African literature—not only as a memoir but as a challenge to dominant narratives about Africa—offering a complex, authentic voice that celebrates the continent's diversity, contradictions, and beauty.

The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel