Last Orders at Harrods

by Michael Holman

Book Overview

Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) - a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntu, some threatening letters from London lawyers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349120099
• ISBN13: 9780349120096
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

A satire, and life in Africa

Holman certainly knows Africa and knows it well. He understands the constant to-ing and fro-ing of the self-important international aid and NGO fraternity, the fancy hotels they stay in and the world-important conferences on which much foreign aid money is spent. Holman also knows the life in the African urban townships, which westerners regard as slums. Life is difficult for all, so is the survival of children in these slums, but most of all for the AIDS orphans. You will smile and laugh out loud as the widowed owner of Harrod's Bar and Nightspot, built from three steel shipping containers bests the representatives of Harrods Department Store in London, and makes monkeys of their lawyers. I recommend this book for its satire, and good description of African life.