The Leopard's Wife is the fifth novel by British writer Paul Pickering. It was published by Simon & Schuster in the United States and United Kingdom in 2010. The novel was called ‘brilliant’ by The Times, the newspaper for which Pickering writes, and "lackluster" by "Publishers Weekly".; Like Pickering's previous novels, the chief concern of the novel is moral ambivalence both on the margins of order and in an increasingly post American world. Pickering travelled down the Congo River in the last stages of the war from Kisangani to Kinshasa to research the novel but had been planning the story partially based in a public school for 15 years. The novel shows the link between such an education and what has happened to Africa today. Notes External links Debrett's People of Today 21 August 2005 Collected reviews Paul Pickering at Simon & Schuster USA. Paul Pickering at Simon & Schuster UK. Paul Pickering's website 2010 British novels Novels by Paul Pickering Novels set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Simon & Schuster books