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Post any books set in Botswana here.

Books set in Botswana:



The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (1st of series)
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
Tales from the Okavango by Thomas J. Larson
Twenty Chickens For A Saddle by Robyn Scott
A Question of Power by Bessie Head
Saturday is for Funerals by Unity Dow
Colour Me Blue by Gaele Sobott-Mogwe
Maru by Bessie Head
Juggling Truths by Unity Dow
Mating by Norman Rush
A Woman Alone by Bessie Head
The Screaming of the Innocent by Unity Dow
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind by Bessie Head
Far and Beyon' by Unity Dow
Cry of the Kalahari by Mark J. Owens
The Tragic Life: Bessie Head and Literature in Southern Africa by Cecil Abrahams
A Gesture of Belonging: Letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979 by Bessie Head
Heavens May Fall by Unity Dow
Whites by Norman Rush
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
Mortals by Norman Rush
The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens van der Post
Botswana Time by Will Randall
Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana by Patti Wheeler and Keith Hemstreet
Why Botswana Prospered by J. Clark Leith
Sands of the Kalahari by William Mulvihill
A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley (1st book in Detective Kubu series)
The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu by Michael Stanley
The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa by Alexander McCall Smith
Prides by Pieter Kat
African Diaries : An Illustrated Memoir of Life in the Bush by Dereck Joubert
Tusk by Robert Watson
Botswana Time by Will Randall
Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS

I have created a Listopia list of books set in Botswana here: Books Set in Botswana. I compiled the list from this thread plus other suggestions and recommendations found elsewhere on Good Reads and the Internet. Feel free to vote for your favorites and/or add books that I missed!

Tales from the Okavango by Thomas J. Larson

White Dog Fell from the Sky by Eleanor Morse

I hope that it's okay for me to share this here. I couldn't find another topic it seemed to fit in. But, I'm doing a giveaway on my blog for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency which is set in Botswana. Link here: http://amandathebookbabe.blogspot.com...

The Lion Children by Angus McNeice

More books set in Botswana:



Anything For Money by Lauri Kubuitsile
Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
Birthday Wishes and Other Stories by Lauri Kubuitsile
Black Mulberries by Caitlin Davies
A Change Of Climate by Hilary Mantel
Children of the Twilight by Moteane Melamu
Claws of a Killer by Lauri Kubuitsile
Clouds of War by Ralph Hayes
Edge of the Rain by Beverley Harper
Entwined by Cheryl S Ntumy
A Far Off Place by Laurens van der Post
Game for Anything by Nikki Meyer
Go Tell the Sun by Wame Molefhe
Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought
In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata and Other Stories by Lauri Kubuitsile
Kalahari by Kalahari
Living and partly living by Moteane Melamu

Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise by Gwynn White

Hi, I'm Evadeen Brickwood. I write novels mostly about my experiences in foreign lands and interesting topics I research.
My latest novel
Singing Lizards
is set in Southern Africa and has a traditional African aspect.
In 1988, Bridget Reinhold's sister Claire disappears in Botswana under mysterious circumstances. Bridget rushes to Africa and is faced with age-old traditions and political change. Struggling to find her place in rural Africa and an urban society with its many distractions, she is getting no closer to the answers she desperately seeks. Should Bridget enlist the help of witchdoctors to find Claire or just accept and live her new exciting life?
I believe there is an excerpt of the book in my profile, otherwise Singing Lizardsis available as a free read on Wattpad until the end of April.
Happy reading

Eleven Miles

A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley

Young Precious

A Bagful of Locusts and the Baboon Woman: Constructions of Gender, Change, and Continuity in Botswana by David N. Suggs.