A Grain of Wheat

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Abdulrazak Gurnah (Introduction by)

It is 1963 and Kenya is on the verge of Uhuru - independence day. The mighty British government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonised and coloniser alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there h...

Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in World War Two: An Authorized History

Mark Urban

In this gripping, authorised account, bestselling historian Mark Urban tells the story of the wartime creation and development of Britain's elite airborne infantry - who ranged from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christians and Jews to communists. Through the fates of six me...