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Patsy - by Nicole Dennis-Benn

£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077103 | ISBN 10: 1786077108

From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice A TIME MAGAZINE 'MUST READ BOOK OF 2019' LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020 Patsy yearns to es ... more
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Silence is My Mother Tongue - by Sulaiman Addonia

£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683320 | ISBN 10: 1999683323

A searing novel of love, judgement and sacrifice and the powerful bonds forged in the crucible of refugee camp life from an internationally-acclaimed writer. Saba, the novel’s heroine, arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young gi ... more
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The Hundred Wells of Salaga - by Ayesha Harruna Attah

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115519 | ISBN 10: 1911115510

Aminah lives an idyllic life in the village of Botu, until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that will turn her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the wilful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an im ... more
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What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky - by Lesley Nneka Arimah

£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472239631 | ISBN 10: 1472239636

A stunning collection of short stories from Caine-Prize shortlisted and Commonwealth Writer's Prize winner Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky has been described as 'luminous' (Roxane Gay) 'mesmerising' (Ayobami Adebayo) ... more
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Jagua Nana - by Cyprian Ekwensi

£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241334997 | ISBN 10: 0241334993

Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, pa ... more
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Stay With Me - by Ayobami Adebayo

£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782119609 | ISBN 10: 1782119604

“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking” Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize, this Nigerian debut is the heart-breaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person, a mar ... more
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John Crow's Devil - by Marlon James

£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780748498 | ISBN 10: 1780748493

With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, this stunning debut is set in James�s native Jamaica. On a day beginning with a bad omen - black vultures, locally called John Crows ... more
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Americanah - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007356348 | ISBN 10: 000735634x

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if t ... more
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The Last Gift - by Abdulrazak Gurnah

£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408821855 | ISBN 10: 1408821850

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the da ... more
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Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories - by Dike Okoro (Editor)

£19.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781592217199 | ISBN 10: 1592217192

This anthology aims to represent the best of contemporary African short stories written in English. Familiar names such as Benjamin Kwakye, Tijan Sallah, Zahra Ramij, Freddy Macha, Arja Salafranca, Odun Balogun, Tanure Ojaide, Jackee Budesta Batanda, ... more
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On Black Sisters's Street - by Chika Unigwe

£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099523949 | ISBN 10: 0099523949

Before Efe came to Belgium, she imagined castles and clean streets and snow as white as salt. Belgium, �...a country wey dey Europe. Next door to London'.� At the house on Zwarterzusterstraat four very different women have made their way from Afri ... more
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African Love Stories: An Anthology - by Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo

£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780954702366 | ISBN 10: 0954702360

"African love stories? Is that not some kind of anomaly? This radical collection of short stories, most published in this edition for the first time, aims to debunk the myth about African women as impoverished victims. With origins that span the cont ... more
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Anthills of the Savannah - by Chinua Achebe

£9.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186900 | ISBN 10: 0141186909

'Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass.' Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppressi ... more
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The Map of Love - by Ahdaf Soueif

£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780747545637 | ISBN 10: 0747545634

In 1900 Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, an Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, and American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sha ... more
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