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The House of the Dead and the Gambler – Fyodor Dostoevsky
₦15,000.00Dostoevsky’s fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison.
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson
₦18,000.00Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson’s story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.
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The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
₦17,000.00WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE BY THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR
ONE OF THE BBC’S ‘100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD’In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’…
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The Writing Life – Annie Dillard
₦15,500.00How do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning? Her perennial guide, which wrestles with the hubris and insanity of the creative process, has been an inspiration and a comfort to writers for nearly forty years.
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Thierry Henry: Lonely at the Top – Philippe Auclair
₦17,500.00Thierry Henry – gifted, charismatic and a genuinely world-class footballer – has passed into Arsenal legend as the hero of a team that finally ended Manchester United’s dominance. But as he approached the autumn of his career, Thierry’s crown began to slip – from the infamous ‘Hand of Gaul’ incident to a dismal World Cup 2010 campaign.
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow
₦40,000.00Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.
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To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
₦14,000.00This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children’s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great …
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What Love Left Unfinished – Esther Okuru
₦10,000.00When Esther met Tobi, she knew her life would change forever. From their first meeting to Tobi’s unforgettable proposal, their love story was powered by faith.