Africa House

A book about Africa, with strong elements of Kuki Gallmann's "I dreamed of Africa", combined with the same spirit as Philip Marsden's "The Bronsky House". It is the story of a lost world and lost time in Africa. In 1912, a rich young man goes to Northern Rhodesia and builds a most magnificent house in the middle of nowhere on the edge of a lake. He builds this mansion in 2000 acres of land, and eventually has 10,000 employees.;Here, he creates a totally British style of living in the form of libraries, billiard rooms, and cocktail parties. Life changes with the political scene in the 1960s and 70s as tragedy hits the family. The home is abandoned overnight. the author, with the founders' grandson. drove for nine hours north of Lenaka and found the crumbling mansion. This is the story of the family and their home.

Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist who, since graduating from Oxford twelve years ago, has lived overseas as a correspondent for the Financial Times in Pakistan and Brazil, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and correspondent for the Sunday Times in South Africa. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, she is an inveterate traveller. Her previous book, Waiting for Allah: Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy, was published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin. She is currently Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times and lives with her husband and young son in London and Portugal.