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A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
₦14,000.00‘But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?’
A Room of One’s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought. Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a…
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An Essay on Typography – Eric Gill
₦15,000.00Eric Gill’s opinionated manifesto on typography argues that ‘a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture’. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age.
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Becoming Nigerian – Elnathan John
₦12,000.00Sharp satire reveals the unspoken rules of Nigerian life. Through mock-instructional chapters covering everything from handling power failures to performing the role of ‘Pastor’ or ‘Middle-Class Hustler,’ the book exposes the absurdities and contradictions of Nigerian society with biting humour and affection.
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Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China – Noo Saro-Wiwa
₦12,000.00A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVEL
China today is a land of opportunity for African people blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America. This is a story of intersecting cultures told with candour and compassion, focusing on the shared humanity between the sojourner and their hosts.
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Dear Ijeawele – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
₦2,250.00A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response.
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Free Troubles – Obari Gomba
₦10,000.00Free Troubles: A Writer’s Eyes on the World is a collection of beautifully written essays that x-rays, critiques and parodies the ills of modern day society. Obari Gomba employs tropes of satire and social commentary, pyrotechnics of wit, beauty of language, diversity of style, force of imagination and experimentation, and first-person point of vi…
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In Defence of the Republic – Marcus Tullius Cicero
₦18,000.00Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: ‘an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country’.
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Letters from a Stoic – Lucius Seneca
₦10,000.00HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Later in life, Seneca wrote Episulae Morales ad Lucilium, or Letters from a Stoic, detailing these principles in full, sharing the many traditional themes of Stoic philosophy, such as the contempt of death, the value of friendship and virtue as the supreme good.
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Manuwa Street – Sophie Bouillon
₦5,000.00French journalist Sophie Bouillon documents living in Lagos in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown. In this thoughtful narrative non-fiction, Bouillon explores everyday life in Lagos through experiences from her career and personal life.
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Notes On Grief – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
₦3,000.00Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humour—Adichie weaves together her own experience of…
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction – William Zinsser
₦28,000.00On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.
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Psst … Just Saying: Musings of an Exasperated Woman – Obafunke
₦6,500.00In Psst… Just Saying, Obafunke draws readers out of their comfort zone into her orbit without apologising for her viewpoint. Her central argument is that cultural norms evolve and exist for reasons that ensure their survival in the Zeitgeist.
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World – David Deutsch
₦24,000.00A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all…
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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being – Simone Weil
₦21,000.00An icon of twentieth-century French philosophy, Simone Weil was described by André Gide as ‘the patron saint of all outsiders’ and by Albert Camus as ‘the only great spirit of our time’. Written in 1943, when France was occupied and Weil was working in the offices of the Free France in London, The Need for Roots responds to a plea both timely and …
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The Power of Words – Simone Weil
₦13,000.00Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipulation of language by the powerful, the obligations of individuals to one another and the needs – for order, equality, liberty and truth – that make us human. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series.
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The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells
Original price was: ₦20,000.00.₦10,000.00Current price is: ₦10,000.00.Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within t…
