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Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria. Friends since high school, Egbo, Bandele, Sagoe,...

Author: Wole SoyinkaBinding: HardbackPublished: Africana Publishing Corp., 1972, First U.S. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsNobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends...

Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A must read...!!!' will.i.am 'Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace' David Olusoga WITH A...

Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...

Author: Wole TalabiFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 238mm, 512g, 304 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2024The Nommo Award Winner.The Nebula Award Finalist.The World Fantasy Award Finalist.The British Science Fiction Award...

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...

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...

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. Winner, Book of the Year, People's Choice, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at NSW Premier's Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Shortlisted...

Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo Award-winning author and cultural critic Sarah Ladipo Manyika takes us on aremarkable journey across contemporary cultural...

This is a unique new reference book to English-language writers and writing throughout the present century, in all major genres and from all around the world - from Joseph Conrad...

There once was a rabbit, his name was Grey he went to the woods to pick berries one day . . . Grey, the hero of our story, has heard...

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Nineteenth-century rural France. Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden...

The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the defeat of settler colonialism, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths...

A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is...

As a connoisseur of comedy, Robin Ince has spent decades mining our eccentricities to create gags - and watching other strange individuals do the same. And for years on The...

She was every student's fantasy and he was the teacher's pet. She was older, beautiful and experienced. It was the brush of her hand passing back homework. That special glance....

ONE COP. ONE KILLER. TWO CAPTIVES OF THE PAST. Mat Joubert, once a rising star of the South African police force, had it all. Then his wife was murdered, and...

In Uttar Pradesh-known as the "badlands" of India-a woman's life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after...

Quentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl on books such as The Giraffe and the Pelly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: **Polish - English Text**At the dawn of Romantic literature, Percy Bysshe Shelley unleashed one of the most audacious...

Njambi McGrath, award winning author of Through the Leopard's Gaze, delivers this stunning debut novel examining the validity of fury as response when a young Kenyan girl's mistakes in first...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...

ONE OF THE TIMES ' FAVOURITE NOVELS OF 2023 The first epic novel in THE GLORIOUS YEARS series from the two times winner of the prestigious Prix-Goncourt 'You have the...

How to cut through the labyrinthine contemporary art world - from the complex and animated process starting in the mind of an artist to the end in a museum, collector's...

A WATERSTONES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AT THE 2026 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 'EVOCATIVE' The Guardian 'COMPELLING AND BRILLIANTLY CANDID' Daily Mail 'A...

In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner (then valued at 24 million pounds) were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain, London. Sandy Nairne...

'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'Please read it!' - Philippa Gregory, bestselling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the shadow of a world descending into catastrophic conflict, five families from across the globe — American, German, Welsh, Russian, and...

With warmth, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her...

A breathtaking fantasy world from the award-winning author of The Last Wild . In this spellbinding follow-up to Midnight Treasure , adventure with Tibor and Roza into an empire of...

Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly...

'IT'LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Hannah Beckerman 'Just read it. You'll see' The Times 'Funny, tender and sad' Sunday Express 'If you liked Meg Mason's...

The Superclass - politicians, military leaders, finance gurus, energy barons, media moguls and thought leaders - is the small group that currently plays the greatest role in shaping the progress...

This BookTok sensation is the third in a slow-burn, epic romantasy series following one woman who must risk everything to save her family - and all of mortalkind! Now with...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodDown the rabbit hole and into the extraordinary — Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland remains one of...

'This is the best book I've read this year, hands down ' Conn Iggulden As Hun hordes and Germanic tribes maraud through Imperial lands, two legendary men - Attila the...

David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as "the most exciting male dancer in...

We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up. In When the Rivers Run Dry , Fred Pearce...

Richard Lowry explores the real importance of the Clinton years--the Clinton administration appeasing and ignoring the ever-growing threats to American security from hostile regimes and parties, rogue states, and global...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew authors have captured the thundering tension of the racing world quite like Dick Francis, and this complete and unabridged omnibus collects five of...

In the haunting sequel to Empire of the Sun, Ballard puts his earlier account of a boy's experiences in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the context of a lifetime. After the war,...

The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the...