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IF WE SPOKE Vol. 1 by CK Njuguna
The sins of our father by Wambui Kieya
The whorehouse by Njoki Kamande
When you go to bed, the whorehouse wakes up; when you rise in the morning, the whorehouse goes to bed. The gentleman of the whorehouse have no place that they want to go home to; and the ladies of the whorehouse call it home, at least for now. But what happens when the events of the night are exposed to the light of the day?
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
COWARDS DIE SMILING by Ongoma Sakwah
Nairobi's most powerful lawyer is found dead in Karura Forest, and DCI detective Ssereya is handed the case. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: Nairobi has men who decide how investigations begin, how they end, and who the law should protect. They will do whatever it takes to ensure the truth stays buried and lies believable.
As she closes in, Ssereya becomes the one thing these men fear most: a stubborn investigator who refuses to be controlled. Soon, she is the most hunted woman in Nairobi. To survive, she must go rogue and stand against the very system built to shield the men she was employed to send to prison.
Ssereya has learned that in Nairobi, the brave live short, painful lives. Cowards survive long enough to tell the story. She must be brave and survive long enough to tell the story.
Troubled Sunsets by Tiwaine Ole Nchoko
Dream Count: A Novel by Chimamanda Ng...
It Ends With Us by Collen Hoover
Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up
— she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.
Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his "no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.
As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.
The Havoc of Choice by Wanjiru Koinange
Long held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life suffocated by political machinations. When her husband decides to run in the next election, these shadows threaten to consume her home. Unable to bear this darkness, Kavata plots to escape.
As her family falls apart, so too does her country. In the wake of Kenya‘s post-election turmoil, Kavata and her family must find their way back to each other across a landscape of nation-wide confusion, desperation, and heart-rending loss.
Koinange explores the long reach and effects of colonization and corruption within the context of a singular household and the disparate experiences of class and clan they encapsulate.
"The Havoc of Choice is a delicate and deeply personal attempt to understand the root of this spontaneous yet organized conflict and to figure out what healing looks like for the people of Kenya" - Champaca Bookstore Library & Cafe
Tales of Nairobi single Mums: Behind ...
Tales of Nairobi Single Mums takes you behind the smiles, strength, and beautifully made-up faces of women raising children alone in Nairobi. Through powerful, emotional stories, the book reveals the hidden struggles, sacrifices, heartbreaks, resilience, and dreams that often remain unseen. It is a journey of women who have faced rejection, judgment, financial hardship, broken relationships, and motherhood’s unexpected battles, yet continue to rise. Tales of Nairobi Single Mums is more than a collection of stories; it is a voice for women who are often misunderstood, a celebration of resilience, and a reminder that behind every strong woman may be a story the world has never heard.
Women and Their Pastors: A novel by W...
- Women and their Pastors is a tale spanning time and places. From the bare landscape of Nairobi a few dacdes ago all the way to the rolling hills of Taita, to the altar of a modern day mega church. Two generations of women and the men they found themselves hitched to, and the anonymous lives behind the rise of a mega church A piercing exploration of faith, power and the spaces where devotion meets desire.
The Village Left The Girl – by ...
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics o...
Decolonising the Mind is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity.
The book, which advocates for linguistic decolonization, is one of Ngũgĩ’s best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a pre-eminent voice theorizing the “language debate” in post-colonial studies.
Ngũgĩ describes the book as “a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism, and in teaching of literature…” Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays: “The Language of African Literature,” “The Language of African Theatre,” “The Language of African Fiction,” and “The Quest for Relevance.”
1984 by George Orwell
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever.
1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" -a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words.
No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions -a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Nairobi Cocktail by Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki
South Bs Finest by Makena Maganjo
Nairobi in the 1990s.
Three families.
Their lives interweave as the find themselves living across from each other in an idyllic middle-class neighbourhood, Malaba Estate, South B.
As the decade charges on, their lives begin to show similarities in the secrets they keep and the mistakes they make.
Funny. Thought-provoking. Surprising. Endearing.
This is a coming of age story about friendship in all of its varied shades and intrigues. It is the kind of story that you try to savour only to gallop through the pages -- enchanted by characters, gripped by the authors enticing style.
Makena Maganjo is definitely a worthy addition to the corpus of African writers, and South B?s Finest is a fine work of art!
Murdering Romance by Kendi Karimi
A Wakini Kuria Prize & African Writers Awards shortlisted author
Murdering Romance is a story about Mukami who simply wanted to experience an actual authentic moment of genuine love and call it her own. But let the title not lull you into thinking that the book is solely about romance. It is much more. The author first portrays Mukami as this lady who seems to be on a revenge mission disguised as a pursuit of love but as the plot thickens, the storyline evolves into other deeper issues. The book delves deep into several themes including domestic violence, toxic masculinity, femininity, absentee parents and abuse, among others.
Often there is a gulf of difference between fiction and non-fiction but in Murdering Romance, the dissimilarity between the two is too blurred to discern.