Mugabe by Colin Simpson & David Smith is a biography of Robert Mugabe tracing his rise to the office of executive president of Zimbabwe.The Struggle for Zimbabwe: the Chimurenga War by David Martin & Phyllis Johnson is a popular history of the Second Chimurenga which describes in detail the Zimbabwean perspective of the tragic war that led to the country's independence.Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions is the tale of a young black woman attending a mission school in 1960s Rhodesia.One of Zimbabwe's first internationally recognised black writers, Charles Mungoshi's works include the acclaimed Coming of the Dry Season.Doris Lessing sensitively portrays the country and its people in The Grass is Singing, African Laughter and other works.The action of many of Wilbur Smith's page-turners takes place in Zimbabwe. Check out Men of Men, The Angels Weep and Elephant Song, amongst others, for those long bus journeys.