Country*
City
Arrival Date
Departure Date
Title (click
to link to an online review**)
Author
Published
Jordan
Various
Leap of Faith : Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Queen Noor al Hussein
2003
Egypt
Cairo
Taxi
Khaled Al Khamissi
2008
Libya
Tripoli
In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar
2006
Tunisia
Korba / Tunis
Waiting in the Future for the Past to Come
Sabiha Khemir
1993
Algeria
Algiers
The Lovers of Algeria
Anouar Benmalek
2004
Morocco
Tangier
Welcome to Paradise
Mahi Binebine
2004
Gibraltar
Gibraltar
Rock Black: Ten Gibraltarian Stories
M. G. Sanchez
2008
Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)
Western Sahara
Oasis: A Novel
Laureen Vonnegut***
2006
Mauritania
Nouakchott / various
Travels in Mauritania
Peter Hudson***
1991
Senegal
Dakar
Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One
Teacher's Journal
M. Kathleen Madigan***
2010
Cape
Verde
Praia
The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva
Araujo
Germano Almeida
1991
Gambia
Various
Coup D'etat by the Gambia National Army
Lt. Col.
Samsudeen Sarr
2007
Guinea-Bissau /
Senegal /
Guinea
Various
Meeting the Invisible Man: Travels And
Magic In West Africa
Toby Green***
2001
Guinea
Various
In Search of Africa
Manthia Diawara
2000
Sierra Leone
Mogbwemo / Freetown
A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
2008
Liberia
Monrovia
Redemption Road
Elma Shaw
2008
Cote
D'Ivoire
Nambonkaha
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart
of an African Village
Sarah
Erdman***
2004
Mali
Nampossela
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a
Midwife in Mali
Kris Holloway***
2006
Burkina
Faso
Ouagadougou
Exchange Is Not Robbery
John M. Chernoff*** /
Hawa
2005
Ghana
Ketanu
/ Accra
Wife of the Gods
Kwei
Quartey
2009
Togo
Lomé
Letters from Togo
Susan Blake***
1991
Benin
Various
Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi
Annie
Caulfield***
2003
Nigeria
Enugu
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2004
Niger
Zinder / Matameye
Still Waters in Niger
Kathleen Hill***
1999
Chad
Moundou
The Plagues of Friendship
Sem Miantoloum Beasnael
2002
Central
African Republic
Bangui
Foreign
Words
Vassilis Alexakis***
2002
Cameroon
TBC
Your Madness Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon
Juliana Makuchi Nfah
Abbenyi
1999
Equatorial Guinea
TBC
The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless
Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa
Adam Roberts***
2007
Sao
Tome & Principe
TBC
*
Comrades, Clients and Cousins (2nd edition)
Gerhard Seibert***
2006
Gabon
Abasok
Mema
Daniel Mengara
2004
Congo
TBC
Johnny Mad Dog
Emmanuel Dongala
2006
Democratic Republic of Congo
TBC
By The Grace of God: A True Story of
Love, Family, War and Survival from the Congo
Suruba Georgette Ibumando
Wechsler
1999
Angola
Luanda
Good Morning Comrades
Ondjaki
2008
Namibia
TBC
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Neshani Andreas
2001
Botswana
Shakawe
Black Papyrus
Bret Galloway***
2003
South
Africa
TBC
The House Gun
Nadine Gordimer
1999
Lesotho
Maluti mountains / Roma Valley /
Mafikeng
Singing Away the Hunger
Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya
1997
Swaziland
TBC
The Kingdom of Roses and Thorns
Debra Liebenow Daly
2009
Zimbabwe
Various
An Elegy for Easterly
Petina Gappah
2009
Zambia
Lusaka
A Cowrie of Hope
Binwell Sinyangwe
2000
Malawi
Masitala
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba
2009
Mozambique
TBC
Under the Frangipani
Mia Couto
2008
Madagascar
Various
Maverick in Madagascar
Mark Eveleigh***
2001
Mauritius
TBC
Blue Bay Palace
Nathacha Appanah
2003
Seychelles
Various
War on America: Seen from the Indian Ocean
Sir James R. Mancham
2002
Comoros
TBC
Last of the Pirates: The Search for Bob Denard
Samantha Weinberg***
1995
Tanzania
Mara region
Telling Our Own Stories: Local Histories From
South Mara, Tanzania
Jan Bender Shetler (ed)
2002
Burundi
TBC
Life After Violence: A People's Story of Burundi
Peter Uvin***
2008
Rwanda
Various
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be
Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch***
1999
Uganda
Entebbe
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe
Doreen Baingana
2006
Kenya
TBC
Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2006
Somalia
Mogadishu
Links
Nuruddin Farah
2004
Somaliland
TBC
*
Becoming Somaliland
Mark Bradbury***
2008
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Mamitu: A Life in Ethiopia
Judith T. W. Goh***
2003
Sudan
Various
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of
Darfur
Daoud Hari
2008
Abyei
Abyei
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn
Village
James Maskalyk***
2010
South Sudan
Adek
Something is Going to Fall Like Rain
Ros
Wynne-Jones***
2009
Eritrea
Asmara
My Father's Daughter
Hannah Pool
2006
Djibouti
Balbala / various
The Land Without Shadows
Abdourahman A. Waberi
2005
Yemen
Various
Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land
Tim
Mackintosh-Smith***
1999
Saudi
Arabia
Riyadh
Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea
2006
Kuwait
Kuwait City
Invasion Kuwait: An English Woman's Tale
Jehan S. Rajab***
1996
Bahrain
TBC
Yummah
Sarah A. Al Shafei
2005
Qatar
Doha
Diary from the Middle East
Heidi Vaughan***
2006
United
Arab Emirates
Dubai / Various
Hello Dubai: Skiing, Sand and Shopping in
the World's Weirdest City
Joe Bennett***
2010
Oman
TBC
My Year in Oman
Matthew Heines***
2006
Pakistan
Lahore
The Wish Maker
Ali Sethi
2009
Kashmir
Srinagar
In The Valley of Mist
Justine Hardy***
2009
Tibet (China)
Gyantse
A Year in Tibet
Sun Shuyun
2008
Tibet (China)
Lhasa / various
*
Tibet, Tibet
Patrick French***
2003
China (Chongqing)
Fuling
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler***
2002
China
(Guangxi)
Various
*
These Wonderful People of
Guangxi
Lisa Carducci***
2008
Hong Kong (China)
Wanchai / Kowloon
The Ghost of Neil Diamond
David Milnes***
2008
China
(main republic)
Dongguan ( Guangdong province)
Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of
Modern China
Leslie T. Chang
2010
China (Shanghai)
Shanghai
Red Mandarin Dress
Qiu
Xiaolong
2008
China
(main republic)
Ding Village (Henan province)
Dream of Ding Village
Yan Lianke
2011
China
(Ningxia)
TBC
The Diary of Ma Yan
Ma Yan
2004
China (Beijing)
Beijing
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Xiaolu Guo
2008
North
Korea
Chongjin / Pyongyang / various
The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson***
2012
South
Korea
TBC
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
Young-ha Kim
1996
Japan
Tokyo
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
2007
Taiwan
Taipei
Wild Kids
Zhang Huijing
2002
Philippines
Paez / Manila
Soledad's Sister
Jose Y. Dalisay
2008
Brunei
Various
Fifa 192: The True Story Behind the Legend of the
Brunei Darussalam National Football Team
Stanley Park***
2004
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Consumption of Kuala Lumpur
Ziauddin Sardar***
2000
Thailand
Bangkok
Bangkok Days
Lawrence Osborne***
2010
Cambodia
Phnom Phen / various
The Road to Lost Innocence
Somaly Mam
2008
Vietnam
Various
Love After War
Wayne Karlin (Editor), Ho
Anh Thai (Editor)
2003
Laos
Various
Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos
Outhine Bounyavong
2000
Burma
Taungbyon
Smile As They Bow
Nu Nu Yi
2008
India (North East)
Arunachal Pradesh / Assam
To the Elephant Graveyard
Tarquin Hall***
2000
Bhutan
TBC
The Circle of Karma
Kunzang Choden
2005
Nepal
Kathmandu
Arresting God in Kathmandu
Samrat
2001
Bangladesh
TBC
Shame: A Novel
Taslima Nasrin
1997
India (East)
Kolkata
The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta
Andrew O'Hagan (ED)***
2004
India (North)
Delhi
Delhi Noir
Hirsh Sawhney (ed)
2009
India (West)
Mumbai
The Death of Vishnu
Manil Suri
2002
India (South)
Bangalore
The Red Carpet
Lavanya Sankaran
2005
Sri Lanka
Colombo / Matara / Ohiya
A Disobedient Girl
Ru Freeman
2009
Maldives
TBC
Maldives Musings
Liz Banks***
2003
British Indian Ocean Territory / Chagos Islands
Diego Garcia
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S.
Military Base on Diego Garcia
David Vine***
2009
Indonesia
Various
Diverse Lives: Contemporary Stories from Indonesia
Various
1996
Singapore
Singapore
Heartland
Daren Shiau
1999
East Timor
TBC
East Timor: A Nation's Bitter Dawn
Irene Cristalis***
2009
Papua
New Guinea
Various
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua
New Guinea
Kira Salak***
2003
Palau /
Micronesia /
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands
Various
The Edge of Paradise
P F Kluge***
1993
Federated States of
Micronesia
Yap
Adventures in Yap
Clyman Otis***
1994
Federated States of
Micronesia
Pingelap / Pohnpei
The Island of the Colour-blind
Oliver Sacks***
1998
Guam
Guam
The Island of the Colour-blind
Oliver Sacks***
1998
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands
Rota
The Island of the Colour-blind
Oliver Sacks***
1998
Marshall Islands
Ujae
Surviving
Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing
Island
Peter Rudiak-Gould***
2009
Kiribati
Tarawa
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the
Equatorial Pacific
J. Maarten Troost***
2004
Samoa
TBC
Where We Once Belonged
Sia Figiel
1999
Tuvalu
Funafuti
Where the Hell is Tuvalu?
Philip Ells***
2006
Nauru
TBC
Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature
Carl N. McDaniel and John
M. Gowdy***
2000
Solomon
Islands
Mendali
Solomon Time
Will Randall***
2002
Vanuatu
Port Vila
House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu
eds: Margaret Rodman,
Daniela Kraemer, Lissant Bolton, Jean Tarisesei
2007
New Caledonia
Nouméa
Poinciana
Jane Turner Goldsmith***
2006
Fiji
Suva
Moving Through The Streets
Joseph C. Veramu
1994
Tonga
TBC
Kisses in the Nederends
Epeli Hau'Ofa
1995
French
Polynesia
Faaa
Frangipani
Celestine Hitiura Vaite
2005
Pitcairn Islands (UK)
Adamstown
Lost Paradise
Kathy Marks
2009
New
Zealand
Rotorua
Once Were Warriors
Alan Duff
1991
Norfolk Island
Burnt Pine
The Fatal Flaw
Roger Maynard***
2008
Australia (Tasmania)
Franklin River
Death of a River Guide
Richard Flanagan
1997
Australia (Victoria)
Melbourne
The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas
2010
Australia (South Australia)
Adelaide
Slow Man
J. M. Coetzee
2006
Australia (Western Australia)
White Point / various
Dirt Music
Tim Winton
2003
Australia (Western Australia)
TBC
True Country
Kim Scott
1993
Australia (Northern Territory)
Alice Springs
Alice Springs
Nikki Gemmell
1999
Australia (Queensland)
Desperance
Carpentaria
Alexis Wright
2007
Australia (New South Wales)
Sydney
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account
Peter Carey
2001
Australia (Australian Capital Territory)
Canberra
Joe Cinque's Consolation
Helen Garner
2004
Antarctica
Various
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
Sara Wheeler***
1999
Falkland Islands (UK)
TBC
A Little Piece of England
Andrew Gurr
2001
Argentina
Buenos Aires
The Book of Murder
Guillermo Martinez
2009
Uruguay
Ochos Rios
The City of Your Final Destination
Peter Cameron***
2002
Brazil
(South Region)
TBC
The Club of Angels
Luis Fernando Verissimo
2008
Brazil (Southeast Region)
Rio de Janeiro
Lucia: Testimonies Of A Brazilian Drug Dealer's
Woman
Robert Gay*** / Lucia
2005
Brazil
(Northeast Region)
Recife
After Life: An Ethnographic Novel
Tobias Hecht***
2006
Brazil
(Central-West Region)
Brasília
The Five Seasons of Love
João Almino
2001
Paraguay
Asunción / various
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through
Paraguay
John Gimlette***
2005
Bolivia
Río Fugitivo
The Matter of Desire
Edmundo Paz Soldan
2004
Chile
Santiago / Valparaiso / Various
*
Chile: A Traveller's Literary Companion
Various
2003
Peru
Ayacucho / Lima
Red April
Santiago Roncagliolo
2009
Ecuador
Guayaquil
Blood Lake: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery
K. J. A. Wishnia***
2002
Brazil
(North Region)
Acre / Amazonia regions
David Campbell***
2005
French
Guiana
Various / Aluku Maroon region
Equatoria
Richard and Sally
Price***
1992
Suriname
Various
Surinam
Andrew
Westoll***
2009
Guyana
Georgetown
My Father's House
Matthew Carr***
1998
Venezuela
El Dorado
In The Shadow of Papillon
Frank Kane / John Tilsley***
2007
Trinidad & Tobago
(Trinidad)
Various
Trinidad Noir
Lisa Allen-Agostini &
Jeanne Mason (eds)
2008
Trinidad & Tobago
(Tobago)
Plymouth
*
Tide Running
Oonya Kempadoo
2004
Grenada
TBC
Under the Silk Cotton Tree: A Novel
Jean Buffong
1998
St
Vincent & The Grenadines
St Vincent
Shakers of St Vincent
Bradford Keeney (ed)***
2002
Barbados
TBC
Pictures of a Dying Man
Agymah Kamau
1999
St
Lucia
St Cecilia
Rum Justice
Jolien Harmsen***
2008
Dominica
TBC
A Passage to Anywhere
Irving Andre
1997
Guadeloupe
Piment
Devil's Dance
Gisele Pineau***
2006
Antigua
and Barbuda
Holberton / various
My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid
1998
St
Kitts and Nevis
TBC
Live De Life: Caribbean Island Style
Joan F Harrington***
2003
United States Virgin Islands
St John
Tales of St. John and the Caribbean
Gerald Singer et al
2001
British Virgin Islands
Tortola
Murder in Paradise
Lisa Pulitzer***
2003
Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico
San Juan / various
Seven Sins, Seven Stories: Fiction From Puerto
Rico
Ronald C. Flores***
2010
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Burning the Sea
Sarah Pemberton-Strong***
2002
Haiti
Jacmel
After the Dance
Edwidge Danticat
2002
Jamaica
Various
Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's
Calabash Writer's Workshop
Colin Channer (ed)
2006
Colombia
Various
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the
Colombian Jungle
Mark Gonsalves / Tom
Howes / Keith Stansell***
2009
Panama
Panama City / various
Panama
Carlos Ledson Miller
2007
Costa
Rica
Pavones
A Friend Laughs
Jo Freeman***
2008
Nicaragua
La Curva
Meet Me under the Ceiba
Silvio Sirias***
2009
Honduras
Lejamaní / Comayagua / various
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks
From The Heart
Elvia Alvarado
1989
El
Salvador
Milagro de la Paz
A Place Called Milagro de la Paz
Manlio Argueta
1996
Guatemala
Santa Cruz / Coban
The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala
Mark Brazaitis***
1998
Belize
Belize City
In The Heat
Ian Vasquez
2008
Mexico
Mexico City
The Uncomfortable Dead
Subcomandante Marcos /
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
2006
Cuba
Havana
Havana Fever
Leonardo Padura
2009
Guantánamo Bay
Guantánamo Bay
detention camp
My Guant á namo
Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
Mahvish Khan***
2008
Bahamas
Nassau
Thine Is The Kingdom
Garth Buckner
2009
United
States (North East)
New York
The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead
2004
United States (Midwest)
Troy / Dellacrosse
A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore
2009
United
States (South)
Paradise, Louisiana
Deep in the Shade of Paradise
John Dufresne
2001
United
States (West)
Los Angeles / Beverley Hills
Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis
2010
Hawaii (US)
Honolulu
Hotel Honolulu
Paul Theroux
2002
Alaska (US)
Haines
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from
Small-Town Alaska
Heather Lende
2006
Canada
(Northern Canada)
Nunavet region
Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit
Women
Nancy
Wachowich, Apphia Agalakti Awa, Sandra Pikujak Katsak, Rhoda Kaukjak
Katsak
2001
Canada
(Western Canada)
Vancouver
The Gum Thief
Douglas Coupland
2007
Canada
(Eastern Canada)
Toronto
What We All Long For
Dionne Brand
2005
Canada (Quebec)
Various
Sacre
Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
Taras
Grescoe
2001
Greenland
TBC
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
Gretel Ehrlich***
2003
The Arctic
The North Pole
Walking on Thin Ice: In Pursuit of the North Pole
David Hempleman-Adams***
1999
Iceland
Reykjavik
101 Reykjavik
Hallgrímur Helgason
2002
Faroe Islands
Torshavn
Dots on the Map
Colin Leckey ***
2006
Scotland
Glasgow
If it is your life
James Kelman
2010
England (North)
Burley Cross
Burley Cross Postbox Theft
Nicola Barker
2010
Isle of Man
TBC
Murder on the Mountain
T. D. Maughold
2006
Northern Ireland
Belfast
The Redemption Factory
Sam Millar
2005
Republic of
Ireland
Dublin
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors /
Paula Spencer
Roddy Doyle
1996 / 2007
Wales
Cardiff
Cardiff Cut
Lloyd Robson
2001
England (Midlands)
Nottingham
Birthday
Alan Sillitoe
2001
Sealand
Sealand / British Sea Areas
Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the
Shipping Forecast
Charlie Connelly***
2005
Sark
Various
*
Islanders Adventures in Sark
M. J. Vermeulan
2009
Bailiwick of Jersey
Various
*
Bergerac's Jersey
John Nettles***
1988
Bailiwick of Guernsey
Various
The Book of Lies
Mary Horlock
2011
Cornwall
Creek
Up With the Larks: Starting Again in Cornwall
Tessa Hainsworth
2010
England
(South)
London
A Week In December
Sebastian Faulks
2007