C. S. Nicholls

The Times Literary Supplement called her book objective, accurate, and amusing, good politics, and a book to be recommended strongly to all concerned to help.EH 's biographer, Christine Nicholls , calls it a...

Ruth Harris in the Times Literary Supplement called this one of the few books that really smells of Africa. Darrell Bates in the Sunday Telegraph said that EH knew the black and white Kenyans...

EH 's reputation remains highly controversial. Kenyan novelist, playwright and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o (then writing under the name of James Ngugi ) attacked her in Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and...

The book covers roughly the years 1913-14. In it EH 's parents appear as resourceful, resilient and intrepid a pair of pioneers as ever set out with small knowledge but high hopes,

Nicholls feels that Norah Smallwood missed a trick by failing to jump at the chance when EH first suggested a sequel to The Flame Trees of Thika, which she did when delivering the first...