The Famished Road by Ben Okri children’s non-fictionYou have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit child. Though spirit children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro is born he chooses to fight death: "I wanted," he says, "to make happy the bruised face of the woman who would become my mother." Survival in his chaotic African village is a struggle, though. Azaro and his family must
his changing political beliefs and connections with the left
In 1984 I was thrust into a scary world of strict order and discipline as a teenage school graduate
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they have been involved in changing not only Africa's cityscapes and societies
and her two children were all modelled on real world individuals at Potter's Hill Top farm
Dryad Press’s re-launch of missing underlines the value of a collection that
and in 1946 he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment
By questioning and challenging the preconceived ideas and the media-portrayed examples of what members of the public might deem a modern and developed society
A journey that begins with a sense of purpose deteriorates into a manic and unpredictable expedition
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He sketched the animals he saw and on his return produced one of the first collections of African wildlife paintings
