The Mayor of Casterbridge is a non-African novel by Thomas Hardy. It is a social novel written in the Nineteenth Century England. It was written at the time when realism was the order of the day in Literature (Victorian Period). Other novels: Things Full.4part by Chinua Achebe. The Becuinful (Onex. Ale Nor Y'l Burn and Fragments by Avi Kwei Armah are African novels that record colonial and post-colonial experiences in A frical.