A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a...

In his final days, Aidan Hartley’s father said to him ?we never should have come.” Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family living in Africa. In The Zanzibar Chest,...