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A Small Silence
£11.99Imprisoned for ten years for his ...Imprisoned for ten years for his rage against society, activist and retired academic Prof resolves to live a life of darkness after his release from prison. He holes up in his apartment, pushing away friends and family, and embraces his ... - Available October 22, 2019.
Better Never Than Late
£9.99Better Never Than Late charts the ...Better Never Than Late charts the unconventional lives and love affairs of a group of Nigerian migrants, making their way in Belgium. The collection is centred around Prosperous and her husband Agu, and the various visitors who gather at their ... -
Born on a Tuesday
£9.99WINNER – BETTY TRASK AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED ...WINNER – BETTY TRASK AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED – NLNG NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2016 SHORTLISTED – REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2016 LONGLISTED – ETISALAT PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2016This novel explores life, love, friendship, loss and the effects of extremist politics and religion on ... -
Cassava Shorts
£9.99Nights of the Creaking Bed is an ...Nights of the Creaking Bed is an unflinching look at life and lust in Lagos. This collection is filled with memorable characters in affecting dramas: a young man who can’t get the image of his naked, beautiful mother out of his ... -
Categories : FictionCloth Girl
Fourteen-year old Matilda Lamptey's life changes ...Fourteen-year old Matilda Lamptey's life changes forever when the suave and sophisticated Gold Coast lawyer Robert Bannerman decides to take her as his second wife. With her childhood snatched away, Matilda finds herself trapped in a jealous household, and finds ... -
Categories : FictionEvery Day is for the Thief
A young man decides to visit ...A young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey back to the family house and all its memories; meetings with childhood friends and above all, facing up to the paradox of Nigeria, whose ... -
Categories : FictionGerman Calendar No December
£15.99Olivia Evezi’s childhood is a happy ...Olivia Evezi’s childhood is a happy one; her days are spent listening to highlife records and poring over colourful postcards from Germany. When she leaves her hometown of Warri behind to live out her Enid Blyton fantasies in a boarding ... -
Categories : FictionImagine This
A compelling story about the human ...A compelling story about the human spirit and resilience against the odds. Imagine This is the journal of Lola Ogunwole which she starts at the age of nine; it charts her survival from childhood to adulthood.Born in London to Nigerian ... -
In Dependence
£11.99In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi ...In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new and better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful ... -
Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun
£9.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS ...SHORTLISTED FOR THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016Dr. Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she has a zest for life and makes the most of it ... -
Categories : FictionMeasuring Time
Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers ...Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers whose mother leaves the world as they enter it. They grow up in a small village in Northern Nigeria with a philandering and domineering father, Lamang. Dreaming of escape, they decide to run away ... -
Nights of the Creaking Bed
£9.99Nights of the Creaking Bed is ...Nights of the Creaking Bed is full of colourful characters involved in affecting dramas: a girl who is rejected in love because she has three brothers to look after; a middle aged housewife who finds love again but has an ... - Available November 13, 2019.
On Ajayi Crowther Street
£15.99On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street ...On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbours gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of clandestine love affairs, hidden pregnancy, spiritual quackery and hypocrisy, ... -
Season Of Crimson Blossoms
£9.99WINNER OF THE NLNG NIGERIA PRIZE ...WINNER OF THE NLNG NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATUREAn affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and 25-year-old weed dealer Reza was bound to provoke condemnation in conservative Northern Nigeria. Brought together in unusual circumstances, Binta and Reza faced a need they ... -
Categories : FictionThe Book Of Memory
The story that you have asked ...The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years ... -
Categories : FictionThe Fishermen
Nine-year-old Benjamin is the youngest of ...Nine-year-old Benjamin is the youngest of four brothers. They live in the rocky hills of Akure. When their civil servant father is transferred to another town, the boys begin misbehaving: smashing windows, severing chicken heads and playing truant to follow ...
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