Our Kind of People

A sobering, ultimately optimistic exploration of a crisis amplified by poverty and misinformation - Independent on Sunday

Searingly honest, you’ll find it hard not to be touched by the award-winning novelist and doctor Uzodinma Iweala’s account of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa - Pride Magazine

In this unassuming but important book, Uzodinma Iweala gives the AIDS pandemic not just a human face but a human voice - Times Literary Supplement

This is a work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent - Amitav Ghosh on BEASTS

So scorched by loss and anger that it’s hard to hold and so gripping in its sheer hopeless lifeforce that it’s hard to put down. - Ali Smith, Guardian, on BEASTS

This is an extraordinary book … horrifying expose … vivid … It casts a powerful, if gruesome spell - Sunday Telegraph, on BEASTS

Gives a name, a voice and a heart to one of Africa’s innumerable child soldiers … This is urgent writing, starkly unsentimental and convincing - Observer on BEASTS

This sad, unforgettable novel is a fitting testament to the countless Agus who continue to kill and be killed across that most tragic of continents. - Daily Telegraph on BEASTS