This collection is set primarily within Nigeria, and the stories here cover varied social themes including spousal abuse, religious dogma, love, bravery, betrayal and vengeance. It speaks of the untamed resilience of the everyday Nigerian who is faced with the vicissitudes of life. ..

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It is 1971, and Nigeria is under military rule, though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven year old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her Mother who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan's brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two Nigerian girls, o..

From Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black,comes the highly anticipated second novel, focusing on the lives of three Black women as they fight their own personal struggles in one of the most egalitarian societies, Sweden.Can a career woman truly have it all?Powerful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi has finally found the man she needs, bu..

Expert In All Styles explores, in richly-textured stories, the complex and often painful struggles of individuals with desire, despair, and hope within the social constructs of contemporary Nigeria.The twelve stories in the collection range in setting and tone – from the joys of a family excursion in Maiduguri in The Lake Chad Club to an American-Nigerian family’s return to Lagos in Communicable D..

A small child is lost in an African forest. He is found and cared for by a family he comes to regard and love as his own. He becomes Fiela's child. The fact that she is black and he is wife is irrelevant - until bureaucrats and the law get to work. ..

Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Ana Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a US publishing house. But desire for Grey still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, she cannot resist. Soon she is learning more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shade..

When Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably. Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy, and being together poses challenges neither of them had anticipated. Ana must learn to share Grey's opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity or independence; and ..

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her..

Warri, October 1992: Seething with idleness and nonchalance, sick of watching his parents fight, 16 year old Ewaen is waiting for university to begin, waiting for something to happen. Months later, Ewaen and friends are finally enrolled as freshmen in the University of Benin. Their routine now consists of hanging out in parking lot trading jibes, chasing girls and sex, and learning to manage the s..

Angela's upbringing is horrendous but what adulthood holds for her is even more excruciating. She moves between achievements and difficulties but, when the metaphysical meets with a mother-in-law's ill-conceived determination to root out a woman from his son's home, the result is devastating. Fire in the Wind shuttles between three countries: Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire. In this moving..

Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."..