Books by Noo Saro-Wiwa
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
by Noo Saro-Wiwa
đ Winner of the 2025 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award
“This is a striking book in which Saro-Wiwa goes out in search of so-called âblack ghosts,â the African economic migrants who live and work in the Peopleâs Republic of China. A lot of these individuals are legitimate traders and professionals, but thereâs also an underclass of people living a precarious existence slightly outside of the law because of visa problems and other red tape.” Read more...
Tom Parfitt, Journalist
Interviews where books by Noo Saro-Wiwa were recommended
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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
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The Story of a Heart
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the Worldâs Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt
Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2025, recommended by Sophie Roell
Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2025, recommended by Sophie Roell
Itâs a golden age for nonfiction, with books on a range of important topics written in an accessible way. As 2025 draws to a close, Five Books editor Sophie Roell takes us through some of the books that won important nonfiction book prizes this year, and what they can tell us about the world we live in.
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Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
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On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar
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Slow Trains to Istanbul: ...And Back: A 4,570-Mile Adventure on 55 Rides
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The Place of Tides
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Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britainâs ancient paths
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Wild Twin
by Jeff Young
The Best Travel Books of 2025, recommended by Tom Parfitt
The Best Travel Books of 2025, recommended by Tom Parfitt
Every year, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards highlight the very best of recently published place writing, and select their ‘travel book of the year.’ We asked judge Tom Parfitt, the author and former foreign correspondent, to talk us through the six travel books that made the 2025 shortlist.
