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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398506145 | ISBN 10: 1398506141
'This story of love, loss and resilient female friendship is a definite must read.’
Tola Rotimi Abraham, author of Black Sunday
‘Aiwanose Odafen’s novel has entered popular feminist discourse.’ Afrocritik
On a Sunday in 197 ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914344114 | ISBN 10: 1914344111
Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2016.
"A novel of epic proportions... I fully expect to see Butterfly Fish on many an award nomination list." — Yvvette Edwards, author of A Cupboard Full of Coats.
"A stunningly well-written book, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526638250 | ISBN 10: 1526638258
'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri
'A lion of African literature' - Financial Times
'Chronicles is many things at once: a caustic political satire, a murder mystery, a conspiracy story and a ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800751910 | ISBN 10: 1800751915
One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband’s penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will no ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780099587446 | ISBN 10: 0099587440
'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon James
White skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASS
Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has tu ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529359275 | ISBN 10: 1529359279
* AS RECOMMENDED BY MALALA YOUSAFZAI
* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
* A TOP TEN SUNDAY POST BESTSELLERA STYLIST BEST BOOK OF 2020
All you have are your words.
Meet Adunni, a teenage girl born into a rural Nigerian village. Aged f ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571345403 | ISBN 10: 0571345409
Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry. Their troubled child begins to develop separate selves and is prone to fits of anger and grief. When Ada grows up and heads to college in Amer ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786495983 | ISBN 10: 1786495988
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019
Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, 2019
When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912408528 | ISBN 10: 191240852x
Now a classic of world literature, this beautifully written, funny and piercingly honest story of a contemporary Yoruba woman’s coming-of-age in Lagos is a heartfelt drama of family, friendship, community and divided loyalties.
It is 1971, ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571341160 | ISBN 10: 0571341160
The new novel by the legendary Edna O’Brien, author of The Country Girls (dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019).
Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a communit ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241334997 | ISBN 10: 0241334993
Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature.
Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, pa ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782119609 | ISBN 10: 1782119604
“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking”
Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize, this Nigerian debut is the heart-breaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person, a mar ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118138 | ISBN 10: 1782118136
“When music is silent you hear the laughter of the tyrant”
A powerful debut from a new voice in contemporary African writing.
The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Taduno’s homeland, he knows that the time has come ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571268955 | ISBN 10: 0571268951
When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows that it is time to leave. As he travels towards Lagos, he becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a better life.
Their arriva ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910688298 | ISBN 10: 1910688290
Sam, a young Nigerian whose father only speaks to the children once he has taken on enough alcohol, and whose mother won’t accept that Sam is different from his siblings, is formed by the people he meets, the gay young man he cannot rescue from his ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847088383 | ISBN 10: 1847088384
One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a r ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780957548862 | ISBN 10: 0957548869
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
In this dazzling debut novel, four young brothers in a small Nigerian town encounter a madman, whose prophecy of violence threatens the core of their family
Told from the point of view of nine-year ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701188566 | ISBN 10: 0701188561
White skin, green eyes, red hair black ass.
Furo Wariboko born and bred in Lagos wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the streets of Lagos running, Furo finds the dead ends of hi ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784082543 | ISBN 10: 1784082546
From the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a classic love story set in a country trying to come to terms with its past.
An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is a story of doomed love, of star-crossed lovers, separated not by their families, but ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007536108 | ISBN 10: 0007536100
Deola Bello is tired of London, but shes not ready to give up on life. When her charity job takes her home to Nigeria, her thoughts turn to the future, as she questions whether her peripatetic existence is still right for her.
Deola encount ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847088314 | ISBN 10: 1847088317
In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor comforting a troubled student; a mother seeking refug ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444762761 | ISBN 10: 1444762761
A star falls from the sky. A woman rises from the sea.
The world will never be the same.
Three strangers, each isolated by his or her own problems: Adaora, the marine biologist. Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa. Agu, the troub ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571316915 | ISBN 10: 0571316913
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954.
It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terr ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571311538 | ISBN 10: 0571311539
This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the compl ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007356348 | ISBN 10: 000735634x
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571268917 | ISBN 10: 0571268919
Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep.
A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slu ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571279432 | ISBN 10: 0571279430
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process hi ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9789782190109 | ISBN 10: 9782190101
Nigerian short stories. A harassed servant plots his grim revenge, a young woman puts a potential boyfriend to the test, a politician in his finest hour finds himself possessed by a begoggled demon. 26 stories of life and love in the aftermath of aut ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849163750 | ISBN 10: 1849163758
'Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.'
Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that chang ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753826973 | ISBN 10: 0753826976
A vivid, warm and very funny debut novel set against the colourful back-drop of modern Nigeria.
Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his dreams. Being the op ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007306213 | ISBN 10: 0007306210
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.
In ' ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099540335 | ISBN 10: 0099540339
In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice. This ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780349120645 | ISBN 10: 0349120641
'I see dirty water dripping down the white wall beside me. It is coming from the ceiling. At first, it comes down in two thin lines. The the lines widen and swell into one. Then two more lines come down, in spurts, like little spiders gliding down on ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141010076 | ISBN 10: 014101007x
In the small Nigerian village of Keti live Mamo and LaMamo, twin sons of a domineering father. When one day the boys try and escape the village, only LaMamo succeeds and in time becomes a soldier well-versed in the ways of life and death.
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780143185536 | ISBN 10: 0143185535
The Combat, published in 1972, unforgettably recounts the torn friendship between two contenders over the paternity rights of a child they once jointly seem to have fathered by a market girl, now a sophisticated businesswoman. A poignant memori ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846040818 | ISBN 10: 1846040817
We are listeners at the oracle. Those who truly hear are touched and changed.
At one level, Starbook tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781770095267 | ISBN 10: 1770095268
An extraordinary novel of breathtaking beauty, which follows in the tradition of Buchi Emecheta and Chris Abani. Winner of the 2007 Ken Saro-Wiwa Award.
Ngozi Akachi is a somewhat regular village girl of exquisite beauty, light-skinned and h ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007200283 | ISBN 10: 0007200285
The highly anticipated new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria-Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.During this turbulen ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747578864 | ISBN 10: 0747578869
A stunning first novel about spirits, twins and an extraordinary little girl.
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781592214044 | ISBN 10: 1592214045
This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction - the legal status of Muslim women, the limitation ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099479048 | ISBN 10: 0099479044
Identical twins Georgia and Bessi live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not much harmony. Their Nigerian mother puts cayenne peppe ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780954503703 | ISBN 10: 0954503708
Amid the smouldering tension of impending civil war, Pete Ogwu an his wife Teresa are forced to flee their home in western Nigeria, leaving behind a baby son and their housemaid. Adpoted by Madam Cash, Femi grows upto be an idealistic socialist write ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186900 | ISBN 10: 0141186909
'Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass.' Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppressi ... more
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