Once you've read the book, please post a review on the Waterstones website. The first book is The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and is available from today.Īll you need to do is Join the GH Book Room on Facebook, then click on the link below and sign up to access your free ebook. We'll be announcing the first book on Friday 25 June - all GH readers will be able to have a read of a sample, with lucky members of the GH online Book Room being able to sign up to access the whole book for free. The range of review books and preview samples will be added to on a rolling basis over the summer. The Summer of Reading launches on 25 June and will run for three months until 17 September. Buy a cheap copy of The First Woman book by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. Each retailer will feature preview samples with pre-order/buy buttons exclusive to that bookshop at the end of the sample. B’s Emporium of Reading Delights and Padstow Books. Participating bookshops and high street retailers include Blackwell’s, Book-ish, Forum Books, Golden Hare Books, Hewson Books, Mr. Jellybooks is offering exclusive online access to a selection of the featured titles in full to members of the online book club, Good Housekeeping Book Room. In 2020, she was selected as one of 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 by New African magazine.Jellybooks is launching a 'Summer of Reading' to give readers a sneak peek of some of this summer’s hottest new books. She was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 and lives in Manchester, where she lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for ‘Let’s Tell This Story Properly’, which featured in her first collection, Manchester Happened (Oneworld, 2019). Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan novelist and short story writer.

Her search will take her away from the safety of her prosperous Ugandan family, plunging her into a very different world of magic, tradition, and the haunting legend of ‘The First Woman’. Where is the mother she has never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? Inquisitive, headstrong, and unwilling to take no for an answer, Kirabo sets out to find the truth for herself.

As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to gnaw at her-questions which the adults in her life will do anything to ignore.

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