Bessie Head

27 books

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter

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

416 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

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

416 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

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 • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Call Me Woman

Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

288 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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 • first pub 1977 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales

Bessie Head

109 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

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

407 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction short stories informative reflective medium-paced

God's Spies: Stories in defiance of oppression

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

407 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

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 • first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures

Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe

105 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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

480 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous slow-paced

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

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

480 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous slow-paced

A Question of Power
Bessie Head

206 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective slow-paced

A Question of Power

Bessie Head

206 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective 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 • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head

96 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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 • first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced

When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru

Bessie Head with Helen Oyeyemi (Contributor)

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga by Bessie Head

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga
Bessie Head

198 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

reflective sad medium-paced

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga

Bessie Head

198 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

reflective sad medium-paced

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