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All that it ever meant

a novel
2023
Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.

Hope is our only wing

After her father's mysterious death in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Shamiso and her mother move from England to Zimbabwe to be closer to family. At school Shamiso meets a student with a cancer diagnosis and as their friendship deepens, Shamiso finds the strength to try and discover what happened to her father.

One hundred and four horses

a memoir of farm and family, Africa and exile
Pat and Mandy Rezlaff's life as farmers and ranchers in Zimbabwe was thrown into turmoil in 2001 when armed members of President Robert Mugabe's War Veterans' Association confiscated their farm and forced them to flee, but as they fled with other families across the country they vowed to do something to save the dozens of horses that were also homeless.

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

a novel
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight

an African childhood
Chronicles the author's experiences growing up white in South Africa amid the wars and strife in Southern Africa and in her own family.
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Out of shadows

Robert Jacklin is thrown into the aftermath of war when his family moves from England to Zimbabwe in the 1980s, and when he is enrolled in a prestigious boarding school, he faces racism and violence and must make a difficult decision as a group of white boys decides to protest the country's new government.
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Count your way through Zimbabwe

Uses the Shona words for the numbers from one to ten to introduce the land, history, and culture of Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe

2020
Explores the country of Zimbabwe, including its people, culture, animals, and more.
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Hope is our only wing

2019
After her journalist-father's mysterious death in 2008, fifteen-year-old Shamiso must leave England for boarding school in Zimbabwe, where she and Tanyaradzwa, who is fighting cancer, form an unexpected friendship.
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When a crocodile eats the sun

a memoir of Africa
2008
Peter Godwin recounts the experiences he had after returning to his birthplace in Zimbabwe to be with his dying father, and shares his impressions of the country and the political and social changes that have thrown it into a vortex of brutality and hatred.
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