Aminatta Forna

London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech....

In the aftermath of Sierra Leone’s 1990s civil war, British psychologist Adrian Lockheart comes to work at the Freetown hospital...

The Hired Man, is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders....

In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma, and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the nonhuman world....

Praised as "a shining example of what autobiography can be: harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful"....

A poignant story about friendship, betrayal, obsession and second chances – this novel is an immensely powerful portrayal of human resilience....

Abie returns home from England to West Africa to visit her family after years of civil war, and to reclaim the family plantation, Kholifa Estates, formerly owned by her grandfather....

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it....

Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes....

Beyond the boundaries of the town of Gost, Croatia, an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life....

An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the postindependence period....