The Wait
₦5,500.00What kind of life is this? Why am I so unfortunate? Bàámi, this is all your fault.
Ajoke parents give her out in marriage so her husband will be able to send her to the University. When her one and only true love walks back into her life ten years later, their love and commitment to each other are tested.
This love story highlights the girl-child education, arranged marriages and the desire for change in citizenship.
To Love & To Hold
₦3,500.00Fadeke and Chinedu are shocked when they come across each other in the elevator of a building they both work in. Chinedu has searched for her for the past six years while Fadeke is hurt by an incident that happened in Chinedu’s apartment six years ago which he is unaware of. An incident that altered the course of her life, family, and relationships. This love story centres on campus life, tribalism, deceit, and forgiveness.
She Who Knows You
₦7,000.00When there is a call, there is often a response.
Najeeba knows.
She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and boys experience the annual call to the Salt Roads. What’s just happened to Najeeba has never happened in the history of her village. But it’s not a terrible thing, just strange. So when she leaves with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake, there’s neither fanfare nor protest. For Najeeba, it’s a dream come true:
travel by camel, open skies, and a chance to see a spectacular place she’s only heard about. However, there must have been something to the rule, because Najeeba’s presence on the road changes everything and her family will never be the same.
Small, intimate, up close, and deceptively quiet, this is the beginning of the Kponyungo Sorceress.
The Brevity Of Beautiful Things
₦8,000.00Across ten interconnected stories, six former schoolmates navigate adulthood, haunted by the ghosts of their shared past. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Lagos and boarding school life in Ogun state, The Brevity of Beautiful Things weaves through time, revealing the unexpected consequences of childhood trauma.
Kamara wrestles with the shadow of his demanding father. Julius is lumbered with an imaginable burden after his father’s stroke, Iman escapes her family’s suffocating religious ties. Ufedo treads a precarious path in her pursuit of pleasure. Murtala harbours a secret he’s neverfully shared about his sex life. Faramade lives a life that he knows should be better.
Ugo And SimSim Learn About Down Syndrome
₦2,500.00While Ugo and Sim Sim are playing, Sim Sim is called away for her sessions with Mrs. Rotimi. Ugo is disappointed that he can’t join his sister. Mummy sits him down and explains what Down Syndrome is and why Sim Sim sometimes needs extra help with learning new skills.
The Mystic Of Small Dreams
₦7,000.00The Mystic of Small Dreams chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.
In The Mystic of Small Dreams, Oriogun, one of Africa’s most important contemporary poets have written a book that is heavy with lyrical beauty and profound emotions. In his third collection of poems, he has continued his deep engagement with the African diaspora, capturing the heartache, hope, and resilience of those who traverse lands far from their ancestral home. Oriogun’s journeys through diverse cities form the backbone of this collection, and each poem is a melodic exploration of identity, belonging, and the quest of finding home in the lonely conditions of exile.
This collection stands as a testament of his continuous devotion to the craft of poetry, offering readers a poignant glimpse into the life and heart of a poet whose work continues to shape and define the poetic landscape of Africa and beyond.
On A Day Like This
₦12,500.00Some secrets are deadlier than others
On the night she turned fifty-two, Sayo Dosumu’s car tumbled off Falomo Bridge, killing her instantly. Two years later, her presence still overshadows the lives of those she left behind. When her daughter receives a text message insinuating her mother’s death might have been murder, she is determined to uncover the truth. At a weekly family dinner, she soon discovers that everyone in the family—her billionaire father, his perfect new wife, the party-animal heir, the nerdy last son—has a secret they want to keep hidden, and exposing these secrets would set off a chain of events that challenges everything they thought they knew.
Every Drop Of Blood Is Red
₦12,500.00Lives intersect for a young woman on a quest for revenge and a family man with a violent past in this haunting and provocative novel by the author of Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold.
In Jos, Nigeria, Dareng Pamson is slowly winning back the trust of his pregnant wife after his infidelity shook their marriage. When a young Muslim woman comes in out of the rain looking for work in Dareng’s auto repair shop, Dareng cautiously agrees—against his better judgment. She’s passionate and willing to learn. Besides, it’s time he started doing things differently.
After being back in her hometown for only a week, Murmula Denge finds who she’s looking for: Dareng, the Christian man whose cold-hearted ambition and greed shattered her family. At first, she wants only to destroy his tenuous peace by introducing chaos. Until Murmula realises that for true closure and justice, she must go to extremes. Blood for blood.
Neither is prepared for the mysterious turning point that changes their lives forever. As they navigate the quandary of faith and the strange new ties that bind them, coming to terms with the past is only the beginning.
Swallow: Efunporonye Osintinubu
₦13,500.00In 1840, the lives of former lovers’ Ẹfúnṣetán and Efunporonye take divergent paths amid personal and social turmoil. Ẹfúnṣetán faces trial for murder in Ibadan, while Efunporonye copes with loss and business struggles in Abeokuta, seeking solace in a new lover.
Meanwhile, Yoruba kingdoms brace for internal and external conflict, with feudal chiefs, warlords, and colonial forces vying for power. Ẹfúnṣetán’s brother, Kúmúyǐló, and his companions journey to England, encountering magic and racism. Atoke, Ẹfúnṣetán’s cousin, delves into wartime espionage with magical herbs. Despite their divergent paths, their journeys intersect in the crucible of war, fostering new alliances and testing their character.
Swallow Book two chronicles the birth of a new world amidst chaos, highlighting the resilience of women and warriors in the face of war, witchery, love, and loss.