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A Woman Is No Man – Etaf Rum
₦15,500.00Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. But fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family…
Set in an …
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Afonja: The Rise – Tunde Leye
₦13,000.00When Alaafin Abiodun Adegolu died, the Oyo Empire was in a slow decline. So, when the Oyo Mesi selected a provincial prince, Aole Arogangan to ascend the throne of his fathers, they believed they had an Alaafin they could control.
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Against War – Erich Maria Remarque
₦16,500.00The most famous anti-war novel ever written. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
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An Island – Karen Jennings
₦10,000.00A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Karen Jennings’ An Island explores ideas that are as old as stories themselves—about guilt and fear, friendship and rejection, the meaning of home.
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Animal Farm – George Orwell
₦14,000.00In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience; a traditional novel would take too long to write.
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Beloved – Toni Morrison
Original price was: ₦16,500.00.₦10,000.00Current price is: ₦10,000.00.Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’.
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Beyond the Door of No Return – David Diop
₦17,000.00The last word to escape his lips is a woman’s name: Maram. It reveals a secret history both fantastical and terrible, of his time as a young botanist travelling in Senegal.
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Big Small People – Jesudubami Jemima Aganaba
₦13,000.00A powerful tale told through the eyes of three children from different backgrounds and their devastating encounters with terrorism. But when the school delivers him into the hands of militants, his world shrinks to the trigger of a gun and the promise of paradise.
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Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris
₦15,000.00Cilka’s Journey is a powerful testament to the triumph of the human will. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.
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Desertion – Abdulrazak Gurnah
₦10,000.00But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. After Pearce has recuperated, he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue and meets Hassanali’s sister Rehana; he is immediately captivated.
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Down and Out in London and Paris and the Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell
₦13,000.00George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism.
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Fine Boys – Eghosa Imasuen
₦6,000.00Warri, October 1992: Seething with idleness and nonchalance, sick of watching his parents fight, 16-year-old Ewaen is waiting for university to begin, waiting for something to happen. An incident of petty crime snowballs into tragedy…
Fine Boys is Eghosa Imasuen’s second novel.
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Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
₦7,000.00Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and t…
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Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
₦7,000.00Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about the ways in which love can complicate all of those things.
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Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
₦15,000.00A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our World
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader’s wife.
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Human Acts – Han Kang
₦15,500.00Amid a violent student uprising a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. As his friend searches for Dong-ho’s corpse, we also meet an editor struggling against censorship, a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories, and Dong-ho’s grief-stricken mother.
