A favorite book about Africa, it’s a beautifully written autobiography. Beryl was raised in Kenya and became a record setting female pilot, racehorse trainer and close friend of Bror Blixen and Denys Finch-Hatton.

The life and times of Beryl Markham. If you loved West with the Night, enjoy finding out how Beryl spent the rest of life. This book does not disappoint, it’s fascinating.

Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Paris Wife, takes readers to Kenya in the 1920s, where the beautiful young horse trainer, adventurer and aviator Beryl Markham tells the story of her life among the glamorous and decadent circle of British expats living in colonial East Africa.

Another beautifully written autobiography of a childhood in colonial Kenya. Her family were pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African.

A series of vignettes and stories about Kenya when she returns as an adult in 1933. Lots of society gossip about the same era as Out of Africa.

An autobiography about the time the Danish author spent running a coffee farm in Kenya and her love affair with the charming Denys Finch-Hatton.

The life and times of Denys Finch Hatton. A good read for those who’d like to know more about Denys, before he met Karen Blixen.

The life and times of socialite Lady Idina Sackville. Lady Idina was at the heart of the “Happy Valley” crowd, if you’re fascinated with the wild parties, affairs and strange lives of these Kenyan colonial settlers, you’ll enjoy this book tremendously.

This book explores the murder of Jossyln Hay, Earl of Erroll, a key figure in Kenya’s “Happy Valley” crowd. A lady’s man, Joss Hay ignored the “rules” of society, and indulged himself with whomever caught his eye.

The definitive story of the English in Kenya, from the explorer Joseph Thomson. His exploits inspired Kings Solomon’s Mines, the Happy Valley set of the 1930s, the murder of Lord Erroll and the Mau Mau revolt of the 1950s.

The novel follows a British family from the time they first settle in East Africa through British colonization of Kenya and Kenya’s freedom from colonial rule.

This is a must-read for anyone visiting Kenya, interested in the workings of local politics and the challenges it poses to an educated woman trying to make a difference in the world.

Matigari is the main character, who returns home after being away from his family, to find that the reality is far from what he’s been fighting for.

A lovely novel about a young woman trying to find her way from a simple rural life, to married life in Nairobi in the years leading up to, and post-independence.

A memoir about her life in Kenya – She moved to Kenya from Italy in her 20’s with her son and second husband. They acquired a cattle ranch in Northern Kenya and lived happily until double tragedy struck.

The story about Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing there is something behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth and finds an international conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money.

A humorous account of growing up in Kenya as a white child during the 1970’s and 1980’s.

Palaeontologist Kathryn Widd is called to the Kenyan wilderness to investigate a set of hominid skull fragments. While studying the ancient fossils, she becomes intrigued by the story of a 1908 safari & the British nobleman who died mysteriously near the site of her dig.

The widower Mr. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. A competition ensues with the winner gaining the privilege of asking Ms. Mbikwa to the ball.

A biography about naturalist Joan Root. From her passion for animals to her storybook love affair, to her hard-fought crusade to save Kenya’s beautiful Lake Naivasha, Joan Root’s gripping life story is a stunning and moving tale featuring a remarkable modern-day heroine.

Sherr traces the cultural history of the giraffe, from it’s first sighting in Europe circa 46 B.C. through medieval bestiaries and up to the modern giraffe star of a TV movie.

The first person to successfully raise newborn elephants, Dame Daphne Sheldrick has saved countless African animals from certain death. In this indelible and deeply heartfelt memoir, Daphne tells of her remarkable career as a conservationist and introduces us to a whole host of orphans–including Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope, and the majestic elephant Eleanor.

Tony Fitzjohn does not fit comfortably into our modern world. He is an adventurer born out of his time, a restless spirit driven by a lifelong passion for the wild. At the age of 22, he began working with George Adamson who over the next 18 years reintroduced 30 lions and 10 leopards into the wild.

A true love story between a European woman and an African warrior who met while she was on holiday in Kenya. It combines adventure and the pursuit of passion as two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds try and make it work.

Peter shares his travels through Kenya and Tanzania during the 1960’s with lots of excellent descriptions of nature, culture and politics of the time.

Former director of the Kenya Wildlife Service (now chairman of the African Conservation Centre), describes his career in African wildlife conservation, beginning with his childhood in the bush of Tanzania.

Joyce passionately documents her groundbreaking work with 800 elephants at Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, discovering the intricacies of elephant social structure, sex cycles, communication, intelligence and remarkable empathy.

Cynthia Moss is an American ethologist and conservationist, wildlife researcher, and writer. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless.

A photographic and textual record of eighteen months in the lives of one elephant family in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park presents photographs and a text that offer insights into every aspect of the elephants’ lives.

Joy Adamson was not only a pioneer for the preservation of wildlife, but also a very courageous individual who faced many challenges in her life. In this book we read about the experiences which led this extraordinary woman to write about the animals and the wild life she cared so much for and also for her final legacy to help preserve wildlife for the generations to come.

Joy Adamson’s story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds.

Richard Leakey’s personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became “human” and what being “human” really means.

Richard Leakey recounts his childhood, spent exploring the African wilds with his parents, his involvement in the study of human ancestry, and his struggle against a kidney disease which required a life-saving kidney transplant.