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“It was felt by Bridget O’Toole, with a little burst of girlish optimism. For the first time in seventeen years, after bearing him nine children, she felt the earth move as her husband climbed on board her ample body. Then the rattling of the crockery on the dresser brought her to her senses. It was just another bomb. ‘God bless the Provos’, she sighed . . ” Read More

“Two people have been murdered in Sierra Leone in what appear to be acts of ritual cannibalism. They are the nephew of the Minister for Natural Resources, and a girl with the American Peace Corps. To his horror, Detective Inspector-Eustace Tucker, a Freetown Creole addicted to Jane Austen, is put in charge of the case. . . . . ” Read More

“Maria begins to piece together her family history during a dull Christmas visit to her grandmother after buying an African carving that she can’t resist. Discovering that Caroline, the long-suffering colonial wife whose letters are still kept, was not her great-grandmother, Maria begins a journey that pieces together the disparate narratives of this rich and intelligent novel . . ” Read More