Bessie Head

33 books

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Angela Carter with Jamaica Kincaid, Vernon Lee, Andrée Chedid, Suniti Namjoshi, Frances Towers, Colette, Jane Bowles, Ama Ata Aidoo, Elizabeth Jolley, Rocky Gamez, George Egerton, Leonora Carrington, Luo Shu, Grace Paley, Bessie Head, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield

416 pages • paperback • 1986 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

Angela Carter with Jamaica Kincaid, Vernon Lee, Andrée Chedid, Suniti Namjoshi, Frances Towers, Colette, Jane Bowles, Ama Ata Aidoo, Elizabeth Jolley, Rocky Gamez, George Egerton, Leonora Carrington, Luo Shu, Grace Paley, Bessie Head, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield

416 pages • paperback • 1986

fiction short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

Call Me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

Call Me Woman
Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

288 pages • 1985 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Call Me Woman

Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

288 pages • 1985

nonfiction autobiography hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales
Bessie Head

109 pages • paperback • 1977 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales

Bessie Head

109 pages • paperback • 1977

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

God's Spies: Stories in defiance of oppression by Alberto Manguel

God's Spies: Stories in defiance of oppression
Alberto Manguel with Bessie Head, Vladimir Nabokov, Sean O’Faolain, Antonio Skármeta, Reza Baraheni, Wang Meng, Isaac Babel, Anna Seghers, Ken Saro-Wiwa

407 pages • paperback • 1999 (editions)

nonfiction short stories informative reflective medium-paced

God's Spies: Stories in defiance of oppression

Alberto Manguel with Bessie Head, Vladimir Nabokov, Sean O’Faolain, Antonio Skármeta, Reza Baraheni, Wang Meng, Isaac Babel, Anna Seghers, Ken Saro-Wiwa

407 pages • paperback • 1999

nonfiction short stories informative reflective medium-paced

Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures by Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe

Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures
Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe

105 pages • 2002 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures

Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe

105 pages • 2002

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America by Barbara H. Solomon

Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America
Barbara H. Solomon with Bessie Head (Contributor), Khushwant Singh (Contributor), Carlos Fuentes (Contributor), R.K. Narayan (Contributor), Chen Rong (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Contributor), Yasunari Kawabata (Contributor), Wang Meng (Contributor), Wang Anyi (Contributor), Kōbō Abe (Contributor), Yūko Tsushima (Contributor), Yukio Mishima (Contributor), Anita Desai (Contributor), Charles Mungoshi (Contributor), Sawako Ariyoshi (Contributor), Ding Ling (Contributor), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Contributor), Lu Wenfu (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Mahasweta Devi (Contributor), Isabel Allende (Contributor)

480 pages • paperback • 1992 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous slow-paced

Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America

Barbara H. Solomon with Bessie Head (Contributor), Khushwant Singh (Contributor), Carlos Fuentes (Contributor), R.K. Narayan (Contributor), Chen Rong (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Contributor), Yasunari Kawabata (Contributor), Wang Meng (Contributor), Wang Anyi (Contributor), Kōbō Abe (Contributor), Yūko Tsushima (Contributor), Yukio Mishima (Contributor), Anita Desai (Contributor), Charles Mungoshi (Contributor), Sawako Ariyoshi (Contributor), Ding Ling (Contributor), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Contributor), Lu Wenfu (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Mahasweta Devi (Contributor), Isabel Allende (Contributor)

480 pages • paperback • 1992

fiction short stories adventurous slow-paced

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head

96 pages • 2007 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head

96 pages • 2007

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced

When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru by Bessie Head

When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru
Bessie Head with Helen Oyeyemi (Contributor)

352 pages • paperback • 2010 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced

When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru

Bessie Head with Helen Oyeyemi (Contributor)

352 pages • paperback • 2010

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced

AQuestion of Power by Head, Bessie ( Author ) ON Jul-17-1986, Paperback by Bessie Head, Bessie Head

AQuestion of Power by Head, Bessie ( Author ) ON Jul-17-1986, Paperback
Bessie Head, Bessie Head

missing page info • 1973 (editions)

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

AQuestion of Power by Head, Bessie ( Author ) ON Jul-17-1986, Paperback

Bessie Head, Bessie Head

missing page info • 1973

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga by Bessie Head

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga
Bessie Head

198 pages • hardcover • 1986 (editions)

reflective sad medium-paced

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga

Bessie Head

198 pages • hardcover • 1986

reflective sad medium-paced

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