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My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.
Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.
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.
My Husband My Abductor: A Novel by An...
Years after being abducted as a child, Sakunda, now known as Nyokabi, hesitantly agrees to marry her abductor. But she insists that he must take her home for a visit first. Njamba, who is both her abductor and suitor, suggests they visit after their wedding instead. As time passes and children are born, the promise is forgotten. Now that their children are old enough to be left alone, it is finally time to fulfil that long-overdue promise.
When they arrive at her home in Maasai land, Sakunda is claimed as a wife by the man who paid her dowry when she was a toddler. She is detained. His dowry must be refunded, and Njamba must retrieve it from his home in the Agikuyu land. But he never returns. What happened to him? Worried, Nyokabi escapes to 'My Husband, My Abductor'.
WHAT WE DO IN THE QUIET
What We Do in the Quiet is a powerful and emotionally charged novel about the choices we make behind closed doors. Exploring love, identity, betrayal, and redemption, it reminds us that the hardest battles are often fought in silence—and that sometimes the greatest journey is finding your way back to yourself.
Kovu la Almasi
A Confession and Other Religious Writ...
Tolstoy’s passionate and iconoclastic writings–on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality–reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes ‘A Confession,’ ‘Religion and Morality,’ ‘What Is Religion, and of What Does Its Essence Consist?,’ and ‘The Law of Love and the Law of Violence.’
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Pot of Honey Stings (The Great Rift...
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin...
Casey Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and a degree in economics. The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants, Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents. But she has no job, and a number of bad habits.
So when a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth – but at what cost?
As Casey navigates an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures, a clash of values and ambitions plays out against the colourful backdrop of New York society, its many shades and divides. Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut Free Food for Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.
The Loud Silence Between Us by Justic...
In the quiet spaces between tradition and truth, a young woman learns that silence, too, has a breaking point.
Na’ima’s story begins beneath the warm northern sun, where a chance encounter with Junaid, charming, patient, and tied to her family’s past, changes the course of her life. What starts as tender affection grows into a marriage layered with expectations, faith, and the unspoken weight of tradition.
As Na’ima balances her dream of becoming a nurse with her new life as a wife and mother, she begins to sense the cracks hidden beneath love’s surface. Behind closed doors, painful secrets unravel, and she is forced to confront the quiet violences that women are taught to endure.
Torn between loyalty and self-preservation, Na’ima must find her voice in a world that prefers her silent.
Set against the vibrant and complex landscape of Northern Nigeria, The Loud Silence Between Us is a haunting and hopeful story of resilience, womanhood, and the courage it takes to turn pain into purpose.
Instances of Exceptional Moments of H...
The Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) is an initiative of the Africa Export Import Bank that is designed as a strategic programme designed to catalyse and support Africa's creative and cultural industries. CANEX is built to unlock the continent's vast creative potential by providing financing, infrastructure, and capacity‑building resources that help creatives scale their work and compete globally.
In 2024, CANEX launched the CANEX Book Factory, its literary arm, with the CANEX Creative Writing Workshop and the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa. This collection of stories is from the participants, drawn from all over the continent and Africa and its diaspora. Read to experience storytelling through African eyes. Read to experience the drive of these young writers. Read to know that you are amongst the first to read their stories. They will all be stars. You saw them first here. These are their names:
Audrey Obuobisa-Darko • Basma Jaheen • Benjamin Cyril Arthur • Denise Westfield • Eduardo Quive • Evelyn Gachuchu • H. B. Asari • Israel Campos • Jason Kooper • Jazz Sanchez • Keletso Thobega • Lucky Grace Isingizwe • Mercy Chipukunya • Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba • Miora Rakotomalala • Nabunya Hadijah Sebunyah • Rigwell Addison Asiedu • Salma Elnour • Uzoma Ihejirika
Even if the Stars Should Fall: A Nove...
Mid 1950s. Northern Rhodesia.
Angie is devoted to Prophetess Alice Lenshina. She dreams of a country where women take their rightful place as leaders. A world where everyone is treated fairly.
Luka, her husband, fights for equality and justice in a segregated society. His love for Angie is rivalled only by her daughter’s. But the colony churns in turbulent times. A Federation between Rhodesia and Nyasaland has formed, and the African majority fear apartheid from the South will grip them. Forever.
Will Angie and Luka’s love survive the struggle?
Even if the Stars Should Fall is an intimate portrait of a family from an era since erased. A story about the triumph of love when caught in the crossfire of religion and politics, colonisation and freedom.
Love on the Dotted Line: A Novel by O...
Love on the Dotted Line is a romance and family drama that tells the story of an unlikely pair, Ada Okeke and Wande Badejo. Ada, a newly widowed mother of four boys living in Port Harcourt, needs to provide for her sons, but has nothing to her name. After a decade with her cruel late husband, she has sworn never to remarry.
Wande Badejo, a.k.a “The Beast”, has conquered the business world but is powerless in the face of his children’s needs, especially his sickly daughter. Desperate, he needs to make one more acquisition: a woman with a “mother’s heart”. Wande proposes a marriage contract to Ada that both solves their problems. At first, Ada refuses, but circumstances force her to take up the offer.
After a very rocky start, Wande and Ada decide to work together for the good of the now blended families. Falling in love isn’t part of the contract, but it happens. The family is torn apart by a secret that comes to light, but fate brings them together again and they find that love can show up in the most unexpected circumstances, changing everyone around them.
And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kay...
August is a God-fearing track star who leaves Enugu City to attend university and escape his overbearing sisters. He carries the weight of their lofty expectations, the shame of facing himself, and the haunting memory of a mother he never knew. It’s his first semester and pressures aside, August is making friends, doing well in his classes. He even almost has a girlfriend. There’s only one problem: he can’t stop thinking about Segun, an openly gay student who works at a local cybercafé. Segun carries his own burdens and has been wounded in too many ways. When he meets August, their connection is undeniable, but Segun is reluctant to open himself up to August. He wants to love and be loved by a man who is comfortable in his own skin, who will see and hold and love Segun, exactly as he is.
Despite their differences, August and Segun forge a tender intimacy that defies the violence around them. But there is only so long Segun can stand being loved behind closed doors, while August lives a life beyond the world they’ve created together. And when a new, sweeping anti-gay law is passed, August and Segun must find a way for their love to survive in a Nigeria that was always determined to eradicate them. A tale of rare bravery and profound beauty, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is an extraordinary debut that marks Ani as a voice to watch.
Thread of Gold Beads: A Novel by Nike...
Amelia, daughter of the last independent King of Danhome, King Ghehanzin, is the apple of her father’s eye, loved beyond measure by her mother, and overprotected by her siblings. She searches for her place within the palace amidst conspirators and traitors to the Kingdom. Just when Amelia begins to feel at home in her role as Princess, a well kept secret shatters the perfect life she knows.
Someone else within the palace also knows and does everything to bring the secret to light. A struggle between good and evil ensues causing Amelia to leave all that she knows and loves. She must flee Danhome with her brother, to south-western Nigeria. In a faraway land, she finds the love of a new family and God. The well-kept secret thought to have been dead and buried, resurrects with the flash of a thread of gold beads. Amelia must fight for her life and what is left of her soul.
Set during the French-Danhome war of the late 1890s in Benin Republic and early 1900s in Abeokuta and Lagos, South-Western Nigeria, Thread of Gold Beads is a delicate love story, and coming of age of a young girl. It clearly depicts the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversities.
A Revolution of Shadows: Africa Reima...
In this compelling story by John Wamatu, Peter Karanja and Stephen Wabeti, we explore the vibrant, intricate landscape of a transformative era in Africa. Motivated by a deep passion for storytelling and a strong commitment to their homeland, the authors use artificial intelligence to reimagine a hopeful future in a place they call Bantuland.
At the center of this story is Bantu Matata, an exceptional leader who gains power through a democratic election. Bantu isn’t just another politician; he is a symbol of integrity, committed to enacting meaningful policies and development initiatives.
In his efforts to combat corruption, Bantu takes bold actions, including the controversial move to involve the military to ensure accountability. As Bantu’s vision starts to take hold, he gains support from his fellow citizens in Bantuland and admirers across Africa and beyond.
His success inspires others, igniting hope and a sense of possibility. However, his journey is filled with obstacles. Resistance arises from his inner circle and foreign interests, leading to attempts on his life that test his resolve.
Despite these challenges, Bantu Matata charts a path for progress by using strategic thinking and resilience to navigate the turbulent landscape of leadership. This book invites readers to follow Bantu’s journey — a story of courage, determination, and the relentless pursuit of a better future for his people and country.
La Victoria by Ayaz Shah
Camilo appears to live a contented, orderly life in a small Venezuelan town until the day he comes home to find his wife and daughters gone without a trace. Over the next three harrowing days, his frantic search through La Victoria forces him onto both an outer journey through the city’s streets and an inner descent into the labyrinth of his own mind.
Fire in the factory shadows in the sl...
In the shadows of a city built on sweet and silence, the factory gates become battlegrounds and the slums echo with the heartbeat of resistance. When workers refuse to bow to exploitation, a storm of courage, betrayal, and hope unfolds. Fire in the Factory; Shadows in the Slums follows ordinary men, women, and children who dare to rise against systems designed to keep them invisible. Their struggle burns through smoke-filled workshops, crowded alleys, and the corridors of power-revealing how unity can ignite even the darkest corners of society. This is a story of people who have nothing left to lose and everything to win.
This book matters because it shows how the oppressed-armed only with unity, hope, and the truth -can rewrite their own fate. It reminds us that injustice is not distant history, but a living force shaping our world today. Readers will leave these pages inspired, awakened, and more of the power that emerges when people stand together.
A DOUBLE BACK through life
Jimmy has spent his life navigating two worlds: the literal shack of a captive township dog, and the metaphorical kennel of human society, defined and shaped by power and hypocrisy. with a canine's clarity, he picks out betrayal before it is obvious. He yearns to discover more about his past life, and most importantly his relationship with his master. This puts him on an endless road where he has strange dreams which bring him closer to unmasking his deeply held beliefs, and the truth about his master.
With the help of Chele, a co-reincarnate from the previous life, Jimmy occasionally experiences eerie flow states of the life he has lived before. Jimmy is forced to confront the ultimate 'kin recognition'. As the pieces of his life begin to fit together, Jimmy must face the critical question: Is the truth about his master a key to his freedom, or just another collar around his neck?
Still I Breathe
'About the Book'
'Still, I Breathe' is a moving memoir of faith, resilience, and redemption. Through the author's journey in Makueni Women Prison, the author shares how hope, forgiveness, and God's grace transformed her pain into purpose. This inspiring story reminds readers that their past does not define their future and that even in the darkest moments, there is always a reason to keep breathing.