QUICK DELIVERY
Swift dispatch
My Life in Crime by John Kiriamiti
The late 1960's and early '70s may be remembered as the years of the great bank and other armed robberies in Kenya. This is the true story of one of the participants in some of those robberies, John Kiriamit. In raw and candid language, Kiramiti tells the story of how he dropped out of secondary school when he was only fifteen years old, and for a time became a novice pickpocket, before graduating into crimes like car-breaking and ultimately into violent robbery.
This spell-binding story takes the reader into the underworld of crime, and it depicts graphically the criminal's struggle for survival against the forces of law.
A Surreal Journey of Discovery by Eri...
A Surreal Journey of Discovery is a collection of magical short stories obsessed with obsession, lust, death, loss, memory, imagination, and authenticity. Here you meet the most interesting girl in the world, a priest who no longer believes in God, a comedian who is the saddest man in the world, a beautiful ghost, and a charming unknown man with a gun. These characters will become your friends, you will never forget them.
All About Love by Bell hooks
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood.
She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies.
Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.
Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.
For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by ...
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.
THE CONFEDERATE: A Vanessa Series Boo...
A cyber attack into Somalian government. A penetration and a leak that threatens and could devastate East Central African regional security.
A shootout in the middle of Nairobi.
Vanessa, a girl on the run.
Inspector Letui, a counter terrorism officer who wants to find the truth.
Aisha, a Confidential Informant who has no idea the people she is spying on are far more dangerous than her day job.
The book has several Offensive Cyber Operations, written in detail never since before in a Thriller.
Painful Tears by Wairimu Kibugi
The River and the Source by Margaret ...
In 1995, this novel won both the Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book in the Africa Region. Now reprinted, it remains in great demand.
An epic story spanning cultures, it tells the lives of three generations of women.
It traces the story of Akoko in her rich traditional Luo setting, through to the children who live and die in the 20th century.
Best Before ’09 by Sharon Gwada
Meet Gwas,
The quintessential middle child with the best of both worlds - older siblings to look up to and younger siblings to mentor. He’s the smartest, funniest, and the family’s center of gravity.
Fast forward
Tragedy strikes and he isn’t the perfect child anymore. He still keeps the peace but smiles a lot less and speaks a little softer. Everyone jumps in the wagon and tries to wheel him toward the light at the end of the tunnel, but he’s a boy with a mountain to climb.
Nothing prepares us for what is about to happen
It’s not the end we hope for. And I have come to realize there are two endings in life, as it is in movies, jobs, sports, vacations, children, and books; the ending you want, and the ending you get.
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
Brief Summary
Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious’s house with his many wives and children. Then one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity—a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man she doesn’t truly know.
She acquiesces, but soon realizes that Elikem is not quite the catch he seemed. He sends a stand-in to his own wedding, and only weeks after Afi is married and installed in a plush apartment in the capital city of Accra does she meet her new husband. It turns out that he is in love with another woman, whom his family disapproves of; Afi is supposed to win him back on their behalf. But it is Accra that eventually wins Afi’s heart and gives her a life of independence that she never could have imagined for herself.
A brilliant scholar and a fierce advocate for women’s rights, author Peace Adzo Medie infuses her debut novel with intelligence and humor. For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Candice Carty-Williams, His Only Wife is the story of an indomitable and relatable heroine that illuminates what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world.
Until Further Notice by Samuel Kisika
Until Further Notice is a metaphorical, fictional political novel that draws the reader into the heated tribal-centred campus politics that mirror Kenya’s national politics. Set at the prestigious University of Nairobi, the narrative centres on Kundu, a young first-year student who is, for the first time, caught up in the high-powered, do-or-die world of student leadership elections. Will his preferred candidate, TiBu, an outspoken reformist vying for the coveted SONU Chairmanship, triumph over KM, the long-serving incumbent, well-funded and backed by the university administration? This gripping novel takes you on a captivating journey of political intrigue and the cost of idealism.
Sealed With A Kiss by Brian Mbanacho
Agnes’ world crumbles after she loses the elections, her pregnancy, and her marriage.
But the story does not end here, as Agnes would soon find out. As lightning threatens to strike the same place twice, Agnes realises the music is still playimg and she has the choice to either dance to it, or exit the stage.
Which one will it be?
The Colour of The Sun by Achieng Opiyo
The Colour of the Sun is a delicate series of notes, it is through uncovering these notes that true human nature is revealed to the reader.
It is through the colour of the sun that Ensley sees freedom and realizes that love is not an end in itself but a beginning without end in sight, for her husband, Smith thought to be her soulmate has hidden intentions that take an unintended journey to the forest to be revealed.
She discovers something else, her life has been marked by loneliness and infatuations coiled as love. The Colour of the Sun is a story of love, lust, tears, crime and passion.
Help You? As Who? by Elvis Ondieki
This city never gives you anything easily. Be in need and people will be looking at you through lenses coloured with thick suspicion as you seek help. Good luck getting any assistance at all because this city, Naii, is the capital city of mistrust. "Help You? As Who?" is a novella by Nation Media Group journalist Elvis Ondieki that is a quick read for people of all ages. It is part of the “I Came, I Saw, I Asked for a Chainsaw” series by the author, which shines the spotlight on the conflicts involving urban living.
Eclipse of the Son by Abdirahman A. B...
Through the tragic fate of five successive generations of men from the same family, Eclipse of the Son paints a haunting portrait of a region scarred by intricate web of punitive political decisions, marginalization and insecurity. The book highlights historical injustices and the resilience of the human spirit through fictional narrative. The book is more just a story of loss; it's a raw and unflinching description of history, identity and the enduring struggle of the forgotten.
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Ad...
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria.
In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Brief Summary
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess.
But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.
Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love.
So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored...
After Checkout By Evalyn Oloo
A woman can survive a lonely marriage, an empty bed, a bitter divorce, a boardroom that keeps stealing her work, a family that calls pressure love, and a city that knows how to watch her without appearing to stare.
But what happens when the one person who finally sees her has been watching too closely and lived inside her life literally for months.
Across Cairo, Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam, seven accomplished women are holding their lives together with elegance, discipline and just enough private denial to get through the day.
Nadia has mastered the performance of a beautiful Cairo marriage that no longer touches her. Zara runs a major bank in Accra and returns each night to a house with one untouched side of the bed. Blessing is fighting to keep the technology company she built from being rewritten as her exhusband’s achievement. Dr Seun is newly divorced in Nairobi, funny, brilliant and pretending her freedom does not frighten her. Kefilwe has turned discipline into armour in Johannesburg. Tigist has mistaken endurance for faith in Addis Ababa. Zawadi, in Dar es Salaam, is still waiting to be chosen without being diminished.
Then the men arrive.
They listen, remember, and notice the exact wound each woman has spent years hiding in plain sight. They share songs, asks the right question, brings calm into a legal fight, knows when to wait, speaks the language of faith, family, work, grief and desire so fluently that it feels like love.
For a while, it is almost beautiful.
Until the wrong sentence appears in the wrong hands.
Until a private message becomes public.
Until money moves.
Until a vanished profile leaves behind a trail the world was not supposed to find.
Until one woman realises that being seen by the wrong person can be more dangerous than being ignored.
Silencing Anna by Wanjiru Waithaka
Silencing Anna tells the story of a young female journalist, blacklisted from all the media houses in the country, after exposing a prominent tycoon’s clandestine activities. Kihoto Ndegwa uses his advertising millions to arm-twist editors and media owners into only publishing PR stories about him and killing negative ones in a classic illustration of media capture.
Anna struggles to keep her integrity in an often corrupt newsroom atmosphere while suffering depression and losing her faith in God. When a whistle blower gives her the chance to bring Ndegwa down, Anna takes him on again despite her fear. The resulting drama moves quickly through the streets of Nairobi, the port of Mombasa, the Indian Ocean and ultimately into the wilderness of Tsavo East National Park where Anna faces her greatest test.
An elephant rescued from the wild after poachers killed its mother holds the key to Anna’s survival. Can she be saved before it’s too late? A final heart-breaking twist ends this fast-paced thriller that you won’t want to put down for even one minute.
Click on this link to watch the book trailer: https://youtu.be/i93aniJL8oc
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Ab...
A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to fight for her dreams and choose her own future.
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice”—the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir.
When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing.
But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can—in a whisper, in song, in broken English—until she is heard.