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Mad About You By Sinéad Moriarty
₦22,000Emma and James Hamilton have weathered lots of storms in their ten-year marriage. From the heartbreak of infertility, to the craziness of then becoming parents to two babies in one year, to coping with James losing his job, somehow they have always worked as a team.
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Journey
Original price was: ₦6,000.₦4,000Current price is: ₦4,000.‘Journey’ is an entirely fictional Islamic novel, written very much with the non-Muslim reader in mind. The story is one anyone can relate to, regardless of their faith, but which highlights some of the values and practices of the Islamic faith.
Born into affluence and privilege, Zainab has always lived her life as only she sees fit. Faced with and unexpected and devastating disarray of her smooth sailing life, she must now re-evaluate her values and outlook to life.
Through pain and love, she finds her way to a meaningful and more purposeful existence which leads her on a journey to the greatest battle she will face, the outcome of which depends on decisions and actions only she can make.
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Three Daughters of Eve By Elif Shafak [Paperback]
₦4,500In Three Daughters of Eve By Elif Shafak, she has given us a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world.
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
₦3,000“In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life.
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A Life Apart
₦4,000Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds the chance to start a new life when he arrives in England from Calcutta. But to do so, he must not only relive his entire past but also make sense of his relationship with his mother – scarred, abusive and all-consuming.
But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for. Instead he moves to London, where he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of illegal immigrants. However, the story that Ritwik writes to stave off his loneliness – a Miss Gilby who teaches English, music and Western manners to the wife of a liberal zamindar – begins to find ghostly echoes in his life with his aged landlady, Anne Cameron. But then, one night, in the badlands of King’s Cross, Ritwik runs into the suave, unfathomable Zafar bin Hashm. As present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik’s own goes into free fall.
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The Story of a Brief Marriage
₦3,500Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman. For a few brief hours, Dinesh and Ganga tentatively explore their new and unexpected connection, trying to understand themselves and each other, until the war once more closes over them. Told in meditative, nuanced and powerful prose, this shattering novel marks the arrival of an extraordinary new literary voice.
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The Book Thief By Markus Zusak
₦3,500“It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.”
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Exit West
₦5,500LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
GUARDIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLER
THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER
2017 most anticipated books pick — Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New York Times and many more…‘Spare, crystalline prose, mixing the real and the surreal and using old fairy-tale magic… An unnervingly dystopian portrait of what might lie down the road’ Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant FundamentalistNadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing – to fall in love – in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.
Civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind – when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world . . .
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The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari
₦4,500An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey, littered with powerful life lessons that teach us how to abandon consumerism in order to embrace destiny, live life to the full and discover joy.
• This inspiring tale is based on the author’s own search for life’s true purpose, providing a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy.
• It tells the story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life: following a heart attack, he decides to sell all his beloved possesions and trek to India. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he meets Himalayan gurus who offer powerful, wise and practical lessons that teach us to:
– Develop joyful thoughts
– Follow our life’s mission
– Cultivate self-discipline and act courageously
– Value time as our most important commodity
– Nourish our relationships
– Live fully, one day at a time -
The Other Half of Happiness: The laugh-out-loud queen of romantic comedy returns
₦5,500Sofia Khan is just married. But no-one told her life was going to be this way . . .
Her living situation is in dire straits, her husband Conall is distant, and his annoyingly attractive colleague is ringing all sorts of alarm bells. When her mother forces them into a belated wedding ceremony (elopement: you can run, but you can’t hide), Sofia wonders if it might be a chance to bring them together.
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And Then I Gave Up By Umm Zakiyyah
₦12,000And Then I Gave Up By Umm Zakiyyah is a collection of some of the most widely read essays on faith and spiritual crisis by Umm Zakiyyah, internationally acclaimed author of the novels If I Should Speak, Muslim Girl, and His Other Wife, as well as the groundbreaking self-help book for religious survivors of abuse, Reverencing the Wombs That Broke You.
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My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel
₦3,500Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed.
OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn’t really hers.
But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren’t they?
Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. All Katie’s hopes are shattered. She has to move home to Somerset, where she helps her dad with his new glamping business.
Then Demeter and her family book in for a holiday, and Katie sees her chance. But should she get revenge on the woman who ruined her dreams – or try to get her job back? Does Demeter – the woman who has everything – actually have such an idyllic life herself? Maybe they have more in common than it seems.
And what’s wrong with not-so-perfect, anyway?
Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella:
“I almost cried with laughter” Daily Mail
“Hilarious . . . you’ll laugh and gasp on every page” Jenny Colgan
“Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it” Jojo Moyes
“A superb tale. Five stars!” Heat