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Alexandra Fuller

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The United Kingdom

Website

http://alexandrafuller.org/

Genre

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Alexandra Fuller has written five books of non-fiction.

Her debut book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Random House, 2001), was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense best non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage.

The Legend of Colton H Bryant was published in May, 2008 by Penguin Press and was a Toronto Globe and Mail, Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008.

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness was published in August 2011 (Penguin Press).

Her latest book, Leaving Before the Rains Come, was publ ...more

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Alexandra Fuller’s books

Average rating: 3.89 · 132,197 ratings · 10,056 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 57,449 ratings — published 2001 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 52,408 ratings — published 1885 — 2892 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness 3.91 avg rating — 12,855 ratings — published 2011 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaving Before the Rains Come 3.81 avg rating — 6,606 ratings — published 2012 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scribbling the Cat 3.81 avg rating — 5,174 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travel Light, Move Fast 4.04 avg rating — 2,380 ratings — published 2019 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Legend of Colton H. Bryant 3.95 avg rating — 2,093 ratings — published 2008 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fi: A Memoir of My Son 3.89 avg rating — 1,647 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quiet Until the Thaw 3.50 avg rating — 1,381 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	He Looked Good on a Horse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat

tags: life, writing

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“You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

tags: africa, grief, grieving

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“How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

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January BoTM Nominations ~ Books Set in Southern Hemisphere ~ 1st Poll

Top five books move onto 2nd poll.

Three Wishes

by Liane Moriarty

16 votes, 30.2%

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by Isabel Allende

13 votes, 24.5%

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8 votes, 15.1%

The Birthday Boys

by Beryl Bainbridge

4 votes, 7.5%

We Need New Names

by NoViolet Bulawayo

4 votes, 7.5%

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

by Alexandra Fuller

2 votes, 3.8%

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard

2 votes, 3.8%

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

2 votes, 3.8%

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by Michael Smith

2 votes, 3.8%

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