Books by Christina Lamb

In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades and rose gardens. He wanted to share it with the love of his life, the beautiful unconventional Ethel Locke King, one of the first women to drive and fly. She, however, was nearly twenty years his senior, married and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman he had ever cared for, had married another many years earlier. Then he met Lorna's orphaned daughter, so like her mother that he thought he had seen a ghost. It seemed he had found companionship and maybe love - but the Africa house was his dream and it would be a hard one to share.

From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong?

In 1992 Christina Lamb reported on the war the Afghan people were fighting against the Soviet Union. Now, back in Afghanistan, she has written an extraordinary memoir of her love affair with the country and its people.Long haunted by her experiences in Afghanistan, Lamb returned there after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre to find out what had become of the people and places that had marked her life as a young graduate. This time seeing the land through the eyes of a mother and experienced foreign correspondent, Lamb's journey brings her in touch with the people no one else is writing about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war.'Of all books about Afghanistan, Christina Lamb's is the most revealing and rewarding...a personal, perceptive and moving account of bravery in the face of staggering difficulties.' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times'As an account of how Afghanistan got into its present state, and of the making of the grotesque regime of the Taliban, this book could not possibly be bettered. Brilliant.' Matthew Leeming, Spectator'Lamb's book combines a love of Afghanistan with a fearless search for the human stories behind the past twenty-three years of war...Her book is not only a necessary education for the Western reader in the political warring that generated the torture, murder and poverty, but also a stirring lament for the country of ruins that was once better known for its poetry and mosques.' James Hopkin, The Times

A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides.One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, received the news he was dreading - a crowd were at the gate demanding he surrender his home and land. To his horror, his family's much-loved nanny Aqui was at the head of the violent mob that then stole his homestead and imprisoned him in an outhouseBy tracing the intertwined lives of Nigel and Aqui - rich and poor, white and black, master and maid - through intimate and moving interviews, Christina Lamb captures not just the source of a terrible conflict, but also her own conviction that there is still hope for one of Africa's most beautiful countries.

Nujeen: I kørestol og på flugt fra krigen i Syrien Mens krigen raser i Syrien trodser en seksten-årig pige alle odds, og begiver sig ud på en livsfarlig rejse i håbet om et nyt liv. Bag sig efterlader Nujeen Mustafa sig alt: sine forældre, sit hjem og alle sine ejendele, og i seksten måneder risikerer hun sit liv på rejsen fra Syrien til Tyskland – bundet til en kørestol. Inden krigen startede boede Nujeen med sin familie i en lejlighed. Hun kunne ikke gå i skole på grund af spastisk lammelse, og tilbragte derfor dagene foran tv’et. For hende har den dramatiske flugt også været en mulighed for et nyt liv, en mulighed for at kunne rejse sig fra kørestolen og lære at gå. Med stort mod og en selvstændig stemme fortæller Nujeen sin historie. Det er et bevægende vidnesbyrd om en af de største humanitære katastrofer i vores tid. Mens krigen raser i Syrien trodser en seksten-årig pige alle odds, og begiver sig ud på en livsfarlig rejse i håbet om et nyt liv. Bag sig efterlader Nujeen Mustafa sig alt – sine forældre, sit hjem og alle sine ejendele, og i seksten måneder risikerer hun sit liv på rejsen fra Syrien til Tyskland – bundet til en kørestol. Inden krigen startede boede Nujeen med sin familie i en lejlighed. Hun kunne ikke gå i skole på grund af spastisk lammelse, og tilbragte derfor dagene foran tv’et. For hende har den dramatiske flugt også været en mulighed for et nyt liv, en mulighed for at kunne rejse sig fra kørestolen og lære at gå. Med stort mod og en selvstændig stemme fortæller Nujeen sin historie. Det er et bevægende vidnesbyrd om en af de største humanitære katastrofer i vores tid. Christina Lamb er en af ​​verdens førende udenrigskorrespondenter, hun har skrevet flere bøger, herunder bestselleren Jeg er Malala.

Tirsdag den 9. oktober 2012 trængte Taliban op i en skolebus og skød den 15-årige pakistanske pige Malala Yousafzai på klods hold. Hun overlevede det brutale attentat, og hendes historie gav genlyd over hele verden.Fra den ene dag til den anden blev hun et globalt symbol på fredelig protest og kravet om uddannelse til alle børn.Verden hørte første gang om Malala, da hun skrev en anonym blog om en skolepiges hverdag i en pakistansk by, hvor Taliban har sat sig tungt på magten. Bloggen blev modtaget som en sensation, og Malala og hendes far blev hovedpersoner i en amerikansk dokumentarfilm. Til sidst kunne deres identitet ikke længere holdes hemmelig, og de havnede på Talibans dødsliste.Nu fortæller Malala for første gang sin bemærkelsesværdige historie. 'JEG ER MALALA' er en inspirerende og gribende historie om en piges modige kamp og beslutning om ikke at lade sig intimidere af ekstremister. Efter skudattentatet og en nærmest mirakuløs overlevelse har Malala modtaget talrige priser. FN's generalsekretær har udnævnt 10. november til Malala Dag, og der er etableret en international Malala Fond, som skal støtte pigers uddannelse. Malala er modtager af Nobels Fredspris 2014. Nyt forord efteråret 2014