Foreign Gods Inc tells the story of Ike, a highly educated Nigerian barely making a living driving a cab in New York city.  A bad marriage and his addiction to gambling and alcohol - not to mention financial demands from family in Nigeria - have pushed him into crisis. After learning about a high end Manhattan art dealer specializing in the sale of "foreign gods", Ike hatches a desperate plot..

Ada has always been unusual. As an infant in southern Nigeria, she is a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents successfully prayed her into existence, but she becomes a troubled child, prone to violent fits of anger and grief; developing separate selves within her. Ada is more than just volatile — she is an ogbanje, born "with one foot on the other side." When Ada travels to America for..

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Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for FictionIncludes the Story "Breastmilk," Shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize for African WritingA debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral tiesIn this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning t..

David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. His decision eventually brings tragedy.Filled with passion, regret ..

I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. Bu..

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Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, Pip is haunted by figures from his past--the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham, and her proud and beautiful wa..

CHRISTIAN GREY exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty - until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right t..

In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the co..

Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagine..

John Braimoh, an assistant superintendent of the Nigerian police, becomes involved in a seemingly noble cause corruption case - the killing of five apparently deviant youths in Abuja, a situation in which his closest friend and colleague, and four others are deeply embroiled. The killings attract the attention of Nigeria's human rights and civil society organisations. John is summoned to testify b..