Archives

Monthly Archives

Categories

Authors
- Austen, Jane
- Auster, Paul
- Bauman, Beth Ann
- Blixen, Karen
- Blum, Jenna
- Cranworth, Lord
- Didion, Joan
- Dobyns, Stephen
- Doctorow, E.L.
- Eliot, George
- Enright, Anne
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Forester, C.S.
- Fox, James
- Frayn, Michael
- Gaarder, Jostein
- Gibbons, Stella
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Gordon, George, Lord Byron
- Gottlieb, Lori
- Hare, David
- Hochschild, Adam
- Hollinghurst, Alan
- Huxley, Aldous
- Huxley, Elspeth
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- James, Henry
- Jamie, Kathleen
- Kassobova, Kapka
- Leakey, Lewis
- Markham, Beryl
- McEwan, Ian
- Mitchell, David
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Moore, Lorrie
- Naipaul, V.S.
- Oliver, Mary
- Oyono, Ferdinand
- Patterson, James
- Pierpont, Claudia Roth
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Rosberg, Jr., Carl G. and Nottingham, John
- Sacks, Oliver
- Salih, Tayeb
- Salinger, J.D.
- Stein, Gertrude
- Toíbín, Colm
- Tree, Iris
- Trzebinski, Errol
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Wallace, David Foster
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wheeler, Sara
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Wolf, Maryanne
- Yagoda, Ben
- de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- wa Thiongo, Ngugi
Biographies
- Silence Will Speak
- Too Close to the Sun
Book Reviews
Copyright
Fables
- The Little Prince
- Winter's Tales
Humanitarian work
Life
Memoir
- Kenya Chronicles
- Out of Africa
- Shadows on the Grass
- West with the Night
Non-fiction
- Forks and Hope: An African Notebook
- Kenya: Contrasts and Problems
- Letters from Africa
- Memoir: A History
- Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
- Proust and the Squid
- The Myth of "Mau Mau": Nationalism in Kenya
- White Mischief
Notes to Self
Novels
- A Book of Common Prayer
- A Grain of Wheat
- A House for Mr. Biswas
- Black Swan Green
- Cold Comfort Farm
- Emma
- Fathers and Sons
- Gilead
- Gone with the Wind
- Houseboy
- Invisible
- Madame Bovary
- Middlemarch
- Northanger Abbey
- Portraint of a Lady
- Pride and Prejudice
- Red Strangers
- Season of Migration to the North
- Sophie's World
- The African Queen
- The Bad Girl
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Child in Time
- The Feast of the Goat
- The Line of Beauty
- The Master
- The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
- Those Who Save Us
- Weight
On Being Female
Plays
- Beppo
- Copenhagen
- Wall: A Monologue
Poems
- Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play
- The Door
- The way we live
- Where We Are (after Bede)
- Who Kill'd John Keats?
- Wild Geese
Publishing
Research for Novels
Short stories
- Self-Help
The Great Themes
- Art and transcendence
- Articulating the inarticulable
- Critical thinking
- Family patterns across generations
- Fidelity to facts
- Humiliation and love
- Integrity under fire
- Limitations on compassion
- Prudishness
- Reading and class distinctions
- The inessentialness of humanity
- The nature of fiction
- The nature of greatness
- The perils of insularity
- The power of writing
- The role of the novelist
- The value of debate
- The value of reading
- The well-told story
- Unconditional love of life
Video
Writing my novels