"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have” ― Lloyd Alexander (1999)

Guinea-Bissau / Senegal / Guinea	Various	25th November 2012	24th January 2013	Meeting the Invisible Man: Travels And Magic In West Africa	Toby Green***	2001
Guinea	Various	25th January 2013	28th January 2013	In Search of Africa	Manthia Diawara	2000
Sierra Leone	Mogbwemo / Freetown	29th January 2013	21st February 2013	A Long Way Gone	Ishmael Beah	2008
Liberia	Monrovia	22nd February 2013	16th March 2013	Redemption Road	Elma Shaw	2008
Cote D'Ivoire	Nambonkaha / Abenké	16th March 2013	9th April 2013	Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village	Sarah Erdman***	2004
Mali	Nampossela	10th April 2013	16th April 2013	Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali	Kris Holloway***	2006
Niger	Zinder / Matameye	17th April 2013	26th April 2013	Still Waters in Niger	Kathleen Hill***	1999
Benin	Various	27th April 2013	13th May 2013	Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi	Annie Caulfield***	2003
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	14th May 2013	20th May 2013	When Everything Has Fallen	Nathalia Zongo	2007
Ghana	Ketanu / Accra	20th May 2013	4th June 2013	Wife of the Gods	Kwei Quartey	2009
Togo	Lomé	4th June 2013	2nd July 2013	Letters from Togo	Susan Blake***	1991
Nigeria	Enugu / Nsukka	2nd July 2013	12th July 2013	Purple Hibiscus	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2004
Chad	Moundou	13th July 2013	31st July 2013	The Plagues of Friendship	Sem Miantoloum Beasnael	2002
Central African Republic	Bangui	31st July 2013	6th August 2013	Foreign Words	Vassilis Alexakis***	2002
Cameroon	Yaoundé	7th August 2013	13th August 2013	Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle	Alain Patrice Nganang	2006
Sao Tome & Principe	Sao Tome	14th August 2013	14th August 2013	Diplomatic Weekends In Africa	Bryce M. Ternet***	2010
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	14th August 2013	18th August 2013	The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa	Adam Roberts***	2007
Gabon	Abasok	18th August 2013	21st August 2013	Mema	Daniel Mengara	2004
Congo	TBC	21st August 2013	29th August 2013	Johnny Mad Dog	Emmanuel Dongala	2006
Democratic Republic of Congo	Manono / various	29th August 2013	26th September 2013	Radio Congo	Ben Rawlence***	2012
Angola	Luanda	26th September 2013	2nd October 2013	The Book of Chameleons	Jose Eduardo Agualusa	2008
Namibia	Oshanntu	2nd October 2013	18th October 2013	The Purple Violet of Oshaantu	Neshani Andreas	2001
Botswana	Gabarone	18th October 2013	28th October 2013	The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith***	2004
South Africa	Cape Town	28th October 2013	4th November 2013	Disgrace	J. M. Coetzee	1999
Saint Helena (UK)	Jamestown	4th November 2013	8th November 2013	The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St Helena	Julia Blackburn***	1991
Ascension Island (UK)	Georgetown	8th November 2013	9th November 2013	Turtle Island: A Journey to Britain's Oddest Colony	Sergio Ghione***	2002
Tristan de Cunha (UK)	Edinburgh of the Seven Seas	9th November 2013	10th November 2013	The Teatime Islands: Adventures in Britain's Faraway Outposts	Ben Fogle	2004
Lesotho	Maluti mountains / Roma Valley / Mafikeng	10th November 2013	22nd November 2013	Singing Away the Hunger	Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya	1997
Swaziland	Mbabane / Manzini	23rd November 2013	1st December 2013	The Kingdom of Roses and Thorns	Debra Liebenow Daly***	2009
Zimbabwe	Various	2nd December 2013	11th December 2013	An Elegy for Easterly	Petina Gappah	2009
Zambia	Swelini / Lusaka	11th December 2013	14th December 2013	A Cowrie of Hope	Binwell Sinyangwe	2000
Malawi	Masitala	14th December 2013	20th December 2013	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	William Kamkwamba	2009
Mozambique	TBC	20th December 2013	23rd December 2013	Under the Frangipani	Mia Couto	2008
Madagascar	Various	23rd December 2013	26th December 2013	Maverick in Madagascar	Mark Eveleigh***	2001
Réunion	St Denis / various	27th December 2013	27th December 2013	Island Awakening	Lynne Martin***	2006
Mauritius	Blue Bay village	27th December 2013	27th December 2013	Blue Bay Palace	Nathacha Appanah	2003
Kenya / ‘Aburiria’	Eldares	28th December 2013	16th January 2014	Wizard of the Crow	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	2006
Kenya	Isiolo	16th January 2014	18th January 2014	A Small Town in Africa	Daisy Waugh***	1997
Seychelles	Mahé / various	18th January 2014	23rd January 2014	Sweet Seduction and the Third Mermaid	Catherine Olsen***	2009
Comoros	Various	23rd January 2014	27th January 2014	The Kaffir of Karthala	Mohamed Toihiri	1992
Zanzibar	Stone Town	27th January 2014	30th January 2014	Zanzibar	Giles Foden***	2003
Tanzania	Kilwa	31st January 2014	4th February 2014	The Magic of Saida	M G Vassanji	2013
Burundi	Songa County / Kibimba / various	5th February 2014	7th February 2014	This Voice in my Heart	Gilbert Tuhabonye with Gary Brozek	2007
Rwanda	Various	7th February 2014	9th February 2014	Running the Rift	Naimo Benaron***	2013
Uganda	Entebbe / Kampala	9th February 2014	10th February 2014	Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe	Doreen Baingana	2006
South Sudan	Adek	10th February 2014	12th February 2014	Something is Going to Fall Like Rain	Ros Wynne-Jones***	2009
Abyei	Abyei	13th February 2014	15th February 2014	Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village	James Maskalyk***	2010
Sudan	Various	16th February 2014	17th February 2014	The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur	Daoud Hari	2008
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	17th February 2014	18th February 2014	Mamitu: A Life in Ethiopia	Judith T. W. Goh***	2003
Somalia / Puntland	Mogadishu / Bosaso	19th February 2014	27th February 2014	Crossbones	Nuruddin Farah	2013
Somaliland	Sheikh / Aluula / Berbera / Hargeisa	27th February 2014	27th February 2014	The Boy Who Learned To Read	Mohamud Ege	2012
Djibouti	Djibouti	27th February 2014	3rd March 2014	Djibouti	Elmore Leonard***	2011
Eritrea	Asmara / Keren / Awogaro / Derssency / Bekishemnok	3rd March 2014	5th March 2014	My Father's Daughter	Hannah Pool	2006
Yemen	San’a / Aden / Suqutra	6th March 2014	10th March 2014	Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land	Tim Mackintosh-Smith***	1999
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	10th March 2014	23rd March 2014	Girls of Riyadh	Rajaa Alsanea	2006
Kuwait	Kuwait City	23rd March 2014	24th April 2014	The Chronicles of Dathra, A Dowdy Girl from Kuwait	Danderma	2011
Bahrain	Various	24th April 2014	1st June 2014	Yummah	Sarah A. Al Shafei	2005
Qatar	Doha	2nd June 2014	15th June 2014	Diary from the Middle East	Heidi Vaughan***	2006
United Arab Emirates	Dubai / Abu Dhabi	16th June 2014	29th August 2014	Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights	Jillian Schedneck***	2012
Oman	Muscat / various	30th August 2014	27th September 2014	My Year in Oman	Matthew Heines***	2006
Pakistan	Lahore	28th September 2014	31st October 2014	The Wish Maker	Ali Sethi	2009
Kashmir	Srinagar	1st November 2014	28th December 2014	In The Valley of Mist	Justine Hardy***	2009

 

*** Non-native author.

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