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  • Joe
    Guy Hallowes
    Joe Wacheera escaped the poverty and exploitation of Nairobi’s Kibera slum, to carve out a successful life in London. With his wife Isabel and their three children, they run Anderson Wacheera, a thriving financial and construction enterprise.But beneath this veneer of success, shadows from Joe’s past loom large. Once involved in a dangerous people-smuggling operation on the Lib...
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    19,46 €

  • GLIMPSES OF ANOTHER WORLD
    Guy Hallowes
    Introducing 'Glimpses of Another World' by Guy Hallowes, an enthralling collection of anecdotes spanning forty years of the author’s life and work in Africa.From the exhilarating experiences of growing up on a farm in Kenya, to being charged by an elephant, and encountering dangerous situations on remote roads in Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Mozambique, this bo...
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    14,99 €

  • Winds of Change Trilogy
    Guy Hallowes
    Winds of Change TrilogyNo Happy ValleyAs the Lawrence family struggles to establish a farm in Kenya’s ’White Highlands’ against a backdrop of great social and pollical upheaval in Kenya, Peter Lawrence falls in love with Rafiki, a black woman.Forced confront the horrors of the Mau-Mau insurrection, the Lawrences struggle to deal with the forced acquisition of their land althoug...
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    29,93 €

  • What a Tangled Web
    Guy Hallowes
    Privileged and entitled, David Phillips, realised he had to mend his ways when he faced, not one, not two, but three, crossroad moments in his life. First, he suffered under the guilt of shouldering the blame for losing a crucial rugby game. Second he has to deal with the shame of a drunken episode with a woman who steals him blind during the night, and third, when he is confro...
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    18,23 €

  • Icefall
    Guy Hallowes
    The Ross Ice Shelf in the antarctic, a lump of Ice about the size of France is forecast to collapse into the sea creating a fifteen metre tsunami that will race around the globe destroying much of the world as we know it. This dire prediction, made by the British Antarctic Survey, New Zealand Scientists, and the Pentagon is ignored by most of the world’s population: but not by ...
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    16,70 €

  • Beyond Icefall
    Guy Hallowes
    Smart beautiful, sometimes uncouth Tanya is now the leader of The Settlement, following the death of her father-in law and mentor David. Tanya’s leadership is tested by: Other surviving enclaves taking advantage of the leadership change to attack The Settlement. Dealing with her serially unfaithful husband Mark. Contending with the ambitions of brother-in-law General Jonathan B...
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    16,95 €

  • No Happy Valley
    Guy Hallowes
    A story of struggle, conflict and passion set in 1950’s Kenya during the Mau Mau insurrection.Peter Lawrence battles to build a place of his own in the raw African bush,but the Kikuyu men who work for him are secret members of the Mau-Mau determined to take back their country.When Peter’s wife Jenny dies in an accident he falls in love with Rafiki, a beautiful Kikuyu woman, and...
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    13,67 €

  • Joe
    Guy Hallowes
    Young JOE WACHEERA lives on a small idyllic plot in rural Kenya with his loving parents. The area, however, is fraught with violence, and his father is gruesomely murdered before his eyes. Joe and his mother flee for their lives to Kibera, a large Nairobi slum, where his mother is forced into prostitution by an apparent pillar of the church, REVEREND MWELELI.Determined to escap...
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    17,16 €

  • Rough Diamonds
    Guy Hallowes
    An exciting adventure story set in South Africa in the mid-nineteenth century at the time of the discovery of diamonds…Why are the white invaders ‘gathering like ants in a rainstorm’ seeking little white stones ‘that cannot be eaten and cannot have children?’ Mpande, King of the Zulus, sends tribesman Mapitha and two companions to the Kimberley diamond diggings to find out.Afte...
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    14,05 €

  • No Peace for the Wicked
    Guy Hallowes
    The third book in the 'Winds of Change' trilogy features Kamau, the Nusu-Nusu (Half/Half) son of Peter and Rafiki.The novel takes us through Kamau's first uncertain steps at a now non-racial primary school in Nairobi. It gives a detailed description of his initiation into adulthood as a Kikuyu tribesman and how he unwittingly exploits that. He follows his half-broth...
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    13,76 €

  • What the Crocodiles Don’t Eat
    Guy Hallowes
    'What The Crocodiles Don't Eat...is a sequel to 'No Happy Valley' in the 'Winds of Change' trilogy.The reality of Uhuru, for which Peter and Rafiki fought so bravely, hits them hard when they discover a number of corrupt practices within Government and the Police.From temperate Nairobi, to the inhospitable forests of the Aberdares, the steamy shores of L...
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    13,82 €