Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Unsentimental and unflinching, but always enchanting, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. Set in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Mozambique and Malawi, this book follows Alexandra Fuller from the age of three as her family builds a life in an unforgiving.

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Alexandra Fuller’s classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. Her childhood is a train wreck, but it's hard. This is her story – of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family’s unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller was an amazing look into growing up white in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe. Sub-titled 'An African Childhood,' Alexandra Fuller's memorable account of growing up in the political hotbed of the seventies is as much. As the daughter of white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Alexandra Fullers classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family’s unbreakable bond. With an introduction by author Anne Enright. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her.