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Unscathed: Escape From Sierra Leone
A truly amazing story of death-defying bravery and escapeMajor Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His...
Explore!: Benin
Benin was an important kingdom in West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Find out about Benin's magnificent capital city, the objects that Benin traded with Europe and their...
Praise Song For The Butterflies
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded. Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life...
A Spell of Good Things
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.Eniola is tall for...
Water Baby: An uplifting and powerful coming-of-age novel, perfect for
LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE 'Rare is the book that enlightens as much as it entertains. Beautifully imagined and full of characters to love' EMMA STONEX, author of...
Ike Ude Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty
The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to as "Nollywood" is a term coined in the mid-1990s to describe Nigeria's vibrant, film industry consists of movies produced in the country but...
Lonely Planet Pocket Cabo Verde
Lonely Planet's Pocket Cabo Verde is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Explore the spectacular island of Santo Antao, climb Pico do...
Water Baby: An uplifting and powerful coming-of-age novel, perfect for
LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE 'Rare is the book that enlightens as much as it entertains. Beautifully imagined and full of characters to love' EMMA STONEX, author of...
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970
One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence...
The Parlour Wife
' So refreshing...A memorable debut ' Louise Hare, Bestselling Author of This Lovely City Kehinde must put everything on the line to find herself during a time of war. Lagos,...
Our Grandmother's Drums
West Africa. Blinding white light, dust and scrub, salt flats and mangrove swamps, a village called Dulaba in the Gambia. People are scratching a living out of rice, groundnuts, millet....
Jella: From Lagos to Liverpool - A Woman at Sea in a Man's World
This is Dea Birkett's story of her voyage from Lagos, along the West African coast and across the ocean to Liverpool, as a member of crew on a working cargo...
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape forge an unbreakable bond at a Nigerian boarding school, where we meet them for the first time in the middle of a riot. The uprising...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 'Gripping ... remarkably wide-ranging' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of...
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon: The Nebula Award finalist and
The Nommo Award Winner. The Nebula Award Finalist. The World Fantasy Award Finalist. The British Science Fiction Award Nominee. A contemporary fantasy filled with the mythos of Nigeria. Shigidi is...
Water Baby: An uplifting and powerful coming-of-age novel, perfect for
LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE 'Rare is the book that enlightens as much as it entertains. Beautifully imagined and full of characters to love' EMMA STONEX, author of...
Time to Shine at the River School
Welcome to a new term at the River School! Best friends Jummy and Caro are attending together and they're thrilled to discover that they both get to work on Nile...
Jummy at the River School
Jummy has won a place at Unity Hall, the finest girls' boarding school in Southern Nigeria. It's everything she could wish for, until her less fortunate best friend from home,...
The Road to the Country
The latest novel by twice Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma FROM THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the New American Voices...
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century
A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in...
Before We Hit the Ground
'A moving exploration of family, migration, class, queerness and belonging... beautifully rendered' JESSICA ANDREWS 'A deeply observant, perceptive writer' JOANNA CANNON 'Evocative, layered and emotionally resonant... deserves to be on...
One Chance Dance
Jomi's Mum left him to find their destiny in Lagos. Now, Jomi and his friendly bush baby follow her - but their only starting place is a TV dance competition...
Blessings
A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fiction When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment...
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...
Death of the Author: A visionary new science fiction novel from the
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This one has it all' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'As delicious as it is disorienting' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS 'Beautifully evoked' THE GUARDIAN 'Suspenseful, timely, and...
Before We Hit the Ground
'A moving exploration of family, migration, class, queerness and belonging... beautifully rendered' JESSICA ANDREWS 'A deeply observant, perceptive writer' JOANNA CANNON 'Evocative, layered and emotionally resonant... deserves to be on...
The Half-God of Rainfall
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...
The Half-God of Rainfall
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...
Small Worlds
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can...
My Sister, the Serial Killer: The Sunday Times Bestseller
When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong...
The Oracle: Fargo #11
Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo return for a new thrilling adventure North Africa, 533 A.D. The last Vandal ruler faces the invading Byzantines. An oracle predicts defeat unless...
Before We Hit the Ground
'A moving exploration of family, migration, class, queerness and belonging... beautifully rendered' JESSICA ANDREWS 'A deeply observant, perceptive writer' JOANNA CANNON 'Evocative, layered and emotionally resonant... deserves to be on...
Ivory Coast
The Ivory Coast Travel Guide - Expert travel advice and tourist tips on everything from Yamoussoukro and Abidjan highlights to Cote d'Ivoire history and culture. Also featuring natural history and...
Dream Count
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
Dream Count
Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel SUNDAY TIMES A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
Dream Count
Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel SUNDAY TIMES A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
Dream Count
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
The Half-God of Rainfall
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian
'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
Death of the Author: A visionary new science fiction novel from the
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This one has it all' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'As delicious as it is disorienting' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS 'Beautifully evoked' THE GUARDIAN 'Suspenseful, timely, and...
Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FUTURES PRIZE AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE...
Small Worlds
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War
'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
Dream Count
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace . A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED...
Purple Hibiscus
**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller...
Little Rot: 'A masterwork of the form . . . mesmerising.' New York Times
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A masterwork of the form . . . mesmerizing.' New York Times 'A fun, sexy, dangerous, dark thriller about corruption.' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 'A dazzling...
Koku Akanbi: The King of Lost Souls: Book 2 - an epic fantasy
Demon dads. Flaming warriors. Ghostly powers. Welcome back to Olori ...Koku Akanbi's newfound ghostly powers have been wreaking havoc, landing him in detention and a whole heap of trouble. Having...
Blood & Ink
Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the sacred manuscripts of the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali.Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained as a warrior for Allah.Tonight,...