Segu by Maryse Condé Barbara Bray (Translator) and the wrong move could

and the wrong move could cost his life - but where help comes from the unlikeliest of places

Morrigan's Cross: Standing on the cliffs of 12th century Ireland Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with saving his and all future worlds

a young student

of internment camps and death marches

Segu by Maryse Condé Barbara Bray (Translator) and the wrong move couldWinner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature 2018The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynastyIt is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the height of its power. Yet Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, feels nothing but dread. Change is coming. From the East, a new religion, Islam. From the West, the slave trade.