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A Broken People’s Playlist – Chimeka Garricks
₦12,000.00A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into the other seamlessly. From its poignant beginning in “Lost Stars” a story about love and it’s fleeting, transient nature to the gritty, raw musical prose encapsulated in “In The City”, a tale of survival set in the all…
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Better Never Than Late – Chika Unigwe
₦11,000.00Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. This richly imagined collage of interconnected stories follows Prosperous and Agu, and the motley community of Nigerian ex-pats who gather at their apartment each week.
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Edge of Here – Kelechi Okafor
₦13,000.00Enter a world very close to our own… One in which technology can allow you to explore an alternate love-life with a stranger.
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Exile and the Kingdom – Albert Camus
₦15,500.00The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider – even in one’s own country – and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.
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Expert In All Styles And Other Stories – I. O. Echeruo
₦6,000.00Expert In All Styles explores the complex and often painful struggles of individuals with desire, despair, and hope within the social constructs of contemporary Nigeria. The twelve stories in the collection range in setting and tone – from the joys of a family excursion in Maiduguri to an American-Nigerian family’s return to Lagos.
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Hail Mary – Funmi Fetto
₦17,500.00She’s been ready to leave her violent husband for some time, but her plans for a quiet departure take an unexpectedly gruesome turn… Nkechi, a housemaid for a rich Lagos family, bears the weight of her Madam’s wrath when she discovers her husband’s dark secret.
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Half Portraits Under Water – Dennis Mugaa
₦12,000.00Half Portraits Under Water is a collection of ten loosely interlinked stories that explore love, loss, and the interconnected nature of human experiences. Through these ten stories set against the moving backdrop of sociopolitical changes in different countries, discover the profound connections that shape our lives, intertwining themes of love, g…
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? – Leo Tolstoy
₦8,000.00Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin’s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.
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Lagos Will be Hard for You: Stories – Ayotola Tehingbola
₦13,000.00These stories are an excavation of what it means to be at the
labyrinthine crossroads of desire, ambition, and tradition. An almost-blind mother pawns her daughter off to save her.
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Love in Colour – Bolu Babalola
Original price was: ₦14,000.00.₦10,000.00Current price is: ₦10,000.00.Bolu Babalola takes the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and rewrites them with incredible new detail and vivacity in her debut collection. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from countries that no longer exist in our…
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Man-Size in Marble and Other Grim Tales – E. Nesbit
₦15,000.00Selected and introduced by Stephen Carver
The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to strangle the thought of it.
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Amos Tutuola
Original price was: ₦16,500.00.₦8,500.00Current price is: ₦8,500.00.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 terrifying beings.
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Ponmo Is A Bird that has no place in a cultured culinary sky and other stories – Benedict Wilfred (author), Adetutu Tayo (author), Ekeoma Ohaegbulam (author), Jesimiel Williams (author), Natasha Mukamba (author), Oluchukwu Nwabuikwu (author), Pearl Bassey (author), Roseline Mgbodichinma (author), Tezor Dedam (author), Abigail Wiredu (author)
₦10,000.00Ponmo Is A Bird That Has No Place in a Cultured Culinary Sky and Other Stories, is a collection of eleven December love stories that take place across Africa. It features a fresh collection of stories from emerging African writers, each capturing a different facet of what it means to love during Africa’s most festive season.
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The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
₦5,000.00The young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband is back in Lagos and has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in…
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Vaults of Secrets – Olukorede Yishau
₦3,000.00The stories in Vaults of Secrets flirt with the limits of freedom and bondage. Yishau examines the nature of man and his ability to make choices and live with the repercussions.
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What it Means when a Man Falls from the Sky – Lesley Nneka Arimah
₦7,500.00A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to “fix the equation of a person” – with rippling, unforeseen reperc…
