Why read The Africa House?

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Christina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman and his African dream.

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,…

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Nicholas Coghlan

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This is the startling, true-life story of Stewart Gore-Brown, who spent his life building a sprawling Victorian mansion in remote bush-land of what was then Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); The Africa House. Gore Brown emerges as a complex, fascinating character. For most of his adult life life he was obsessed with a long-distance (unconsummated ) affair that he carried out with an aristocratic English woman who was 20 years older - and also his aunt; he ends up marrying her daughter. Meanwhile, in some respects he behaves as the caricature of of a white colonial master, dressing formally for dinner…

From Nicholas' 3 favorite reads in 2024.