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Shop nowA Café on the Nile
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Learn moreThis stirring sequel to The White Rhino is a historical novel of bold romance and grand adventure that sweeps from cosmopolitan Cairo to the wild highlands of East Africa.
A nation sits at the brink of war; a city is fraught with conspiracy. It’s 1935 in East Africa, and at the Cataract Café in Cairo, they gather: professional hunter Anton Rider; his estranged wife and her Italian lover; the pampered American twins, Bernadette and Harriet Mills; an English lord down on his luck; a German freebooter who has stolen a fortune in silver from the Italian army. Under the knowing eye of Goan the dwarf and café proprietor Olivio Alevado, they lay plots and toast alliances. They plan safaris. They gamble with destiny.
Bartle Bull is the author of the widely praised African novels The White Rhino Hotel, A Café on the Nile, and The Devil’s Oasis. He is a member of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club and was the publisher of the Village Voice.
Fred Williams, a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, works in theater, film, television, and radio in England, Ireland, and America. Besides narrating audiobooks, he is a performer in living-history reenactments, an archer, and a poet.
Reviews
“Pulses with entertainment value…The sort of yarn that can keep you up late at night…[a] spirited, sensuous, hot-blooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world.”
“The action is nonstop, the details are rawly authentic and the whole thing makes for a fast-paced and absorbing, if somewhat old-fashioned, read.”
“A breathtakingly entertaining historical novel…packed with daring exploits and sinister intrigues, with larger-than-life characters and exotic locales.”
“[Bull] gives us a rich, exciting picture of a world about to disappear.”
“A Café on the Nile achieves the aim of fiction: The reader gladly suspends disbelief.”
“A breathtakingly entertaining historical novel…packed with daring exploits and sinister intrigues, with larger-than-life characters and exotic locales.”
“An enthralling novel.”
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