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Judge Stone: A Legal Thriller by Jame...
All rise…for Judge Stone.
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. Everything changes when she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.
Criminally, it’s open-and-shut.
Ethically, there is no middle ground.
Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death.
No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
The Secret Lives of Murderers’ ...
You’ve heard of the men who kill, but what about the women who loved them?
It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. They may look like they lead idyllic lives but behind the false smiles and glittering pools lies the truth: their husbands are some of the country’s most notorious serial killers.
Amidst neighbourhood gossip and pointed fingers, Beverley, Elsie and Margot are fighting to forge new paths for themselves. But when a string of local killings hits the news, the women – underestimated and overlooked – are hurled into an investigation of their own.
The Heist By James Patterson
A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole world is watching.
But bright art student Halston Graham sees an opportunity. One that could secure millions for her future – and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father…
To pull off the crime of the century, she must assemble an unlikely crack team: an expert in forgery, a ruthless mob boss, and an eccentric fashion designer.
In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will Halston’s brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies?
Alchemised: A Novel By Sen Linyu
n a world ruled by necromancers, a woman with missing memories threatens the dark order that keeps her captive - and the man sent to break her. Gothic in tone, epic in scope - this debut is destined to become a modern classic.
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner – of war and of her own fractured mind. The Resistance is crushed, her allies dead, her abilities suppressed.
The world she knew is gone.
Paladia’s corrupt guild families and their necromancer overlords, aided by vile undead creatures now rule - and hold Helena captive.
Resistance records claim she was a healer of little importance. Yet, Helena’s inexplicable memory loss makes her enemies wonder: Is she truly insignificant, or do her missing memories conceal the Resistance’s final secret?
To uncover the truth, Helena is delivered into the hands of the High Reeve – Paladia’s most feared and merciless necromancer.
Trapped on his crumbling estate, she must fight to protect what remains of herself and unearth the secrets buried in her mind, her prison, and her captor . . . whatever the cost.
n a world ruled by necromancers, a woman with missing memories threatens the dark order that keeps her captive - and the man sent to break her. Gothic in tone, epic in scope - this debut is destined to become a modern classic.
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner – of war and of her own fractured mind. The Resistance is crushed, her allies dead, her abilities suppressed.
The world she knew is gone.
Paladia’s corrupt guild families and their necromancer overlords, aided by vile undead creatures now rule - and hold Helena captive.
Resistance records claim she was a healer of little importance. Yet, Helena’s inexplicable memory loss makes her enemies wonder: Is she truly insignificant, or do her missing memories conceal the Resistance’s final secret?
To uncover the truth, Helena is delivered into the hands of the High Reeve – Paladia’s most feared and merciless necromancer.
Trapped on his crumbling estate, she must fight to protect what remains of herself and unearth the secrets buried in her mind, her prison, and her captor . . . whatever the cost.
A Visit To the Farm by Brian Wairegi
The farm is a fun place to visit. When Ben and Amani visit one, they enjoy themselves all day. They also learn the importance of friendship and how to live in peace. Above all, they also learn that sharing is caring.
Bryan Wairegi is a pupil at Royal Brains School. He enjoys reading, writing and watching cartoons. A Visit to the Farm is his first book.
Patents and Beyond: Intellectual Prop...
Dhulma na Abdulrazak Gurnah
Katika mitaa ya Zanzibar na Dar es Salaam, maisha ya vijana watatu–Badar, Karim, na Fauzia–yanasukwa na matukio yasiyotabirika. Badar, kijana maskini asiye na mizizi wala elimu, anajikuta katika dunia ya watu wenye mamlaka na mali. Akiwa mtumishi, bahati inampiga mawimbi anapokutana na Karim–kijana wa mama mwenye nyumba, mwenye ndoto na matarajio makubwa. Wakati huo huo, Fauzia, bado akiwa kaelemewa na changamoto za utotoni, anatafuta njia ya kujinasua.
Vijana hawa wenye njozi tofauti lakini mustakabali uliofungamana, wanapita kwenye safari ya mapenzi, kazi na uzazi, huku urafiki wao ukijaribiwa na tamaa, hofu, mabadiliko ya kiuchumi na teknolojia na hatimaye–usaliti. Je, hatima yetu huamuliwa na hadhi ya kuzaliwa kwetu, au tunaweza kuiandika upya? Hakika simulizi hii inatupeleka kwenye safari ya maisha ya wale wanaotafuta nafasi yao katika ulimwengu unaobadilika haraka, usio na huruma na wenye dhulma bila kujali walipotoka.
Hii ni Tafsiri ya Riwaya ya Kwanza ya Abdulrazak Gurnah baada ya kutunukiwa Tuzo ya Nobel ya Fasihi ya mwaka 2021.
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Great Mistake by Dr. CYPRIEN SIKUBWABO
Great Mistake is an emotional story that lays bare the fragility of love, trust, and hope in the final chapters of a person’s life. It follows Mariko, a 78-year-old widower whose longing for comfort after the death of his first wife leads him into a risky remarriage with Alice, a woman far younger than himself. In seeking a companion to soften the loneliness of old age, Mariko instead finds himself trapped in a union devoid of loyalty, affection, and sincerity, one that gives him neither the wife he hoped for nor the life he imagined.
What begins as a yearning for companionship quickly unravels into betrayal and moral decay. Alice, driven by self-interest, pursues relationships with other men, exposing Mariko to a world of deception he never anticipated. As painful truths emerge, Mariko receives a devastating HIV diagnosis, which he believes to be the consequence of Alice’s reckless actions. The shock and despair that follow leave him emotionally shattered and unable to endure the weight of his circumstances. In a final act of overwhelming hopelessness, Mariko chooses to end his life through self-starvation, a tragic decision that leaves Alice facing a future marked by guilt, uncertainty, and moral reckoning.
Through Mariko’s heartbreaking journey, Great Mistake becomes a powerful cautionary reflection on extreme age-gap relationships and the perils of seeking love too late in life. It shows how, in old age, marriage can be heartbreakingly, so brief that one may lose both the wife and the life hoped for almost immediately after the union begins. What seems like a final chance at companionship can quickly dissolve into profound isolation and painful illusion.
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives to accomplish their goals. But when the group is threatened with exposure, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own to cover their tracks? Savage and powerful yet lively and often comic, Demons was inspired by a real-life political murder and is a scathing and eerily prescient indictment of those who use violence to serve their beliefs.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
There’s a Monster Behind the Do...
In 1980s’ Réunion, monsters lurk beneath the surface of vibrant island life,
ready to pounce at the slightest disturbance.
‘In the heat of the Tropic of Capricorn, on the flanks of an active volcano, the sharks would tear apart your favourite magazine if only they could crawl as far as your beach towel.’
Here, the naïve Dessaintes couple make a failing bid for happiness, soon growing jaded and bitter as the orange tree in their front yard – ‘the branches laden with flowers, the juicy oranges and, eventually, the nests of insatiable weaverbirds and the stench of rotten fruit.’
Even so, sprouting defiantly through the cracks of this postcolonial legacy of violence, poverty and intergenerational trauma, the Dessaintes’ daughter shows an irrepressible zest for life. Amidst the chaos raging behind and beyond the door of her childhood home, our young narrator stubbornly resists her parents’ refrain, ‘that’s the way it is and that’s that!’
Finding refuge in reading and determined to write her own story, she falls in love with words – ‘a group of jumbled black arabesques was dancing on a little white wall ... I worshipped them as sacred beings.’
With clear-eyed, offbeat, buoyant humour, Bélem plunges us into a vivid world of extremes where, ‘quiet times and places are rare.’
Saro by Nike Campbell
On a visit to the coast of Marina, Lagos, Siwoolu and his young family are lured by a traitor to a grand merchant ship where they are captured by slaveholders masquerading as traders. On the way to the new world, they are rescued by abolitionists on a British naval ship and sent to Freetown, a haven for freed slaves.
They settle in their new home, grow their family, and become successful merchants, trading goods between Freetown and Eko. Dotunu, Siwoolu’s wife, falls in love with another man and is caught in a love triangle. But their lives are upended again when they hear that the kingdom has selected the traitor as king. Siwoolu, content with his new life, yet fearful of a curse that lurks in the shadows, refuses to return, but Dotunu is determined to keep the traitor from the throne. She turns to their son, Oșolu, who is running from his own demons, to seize the throne that is rightfully theirs.
A Kind of Madness by Uche Okonkwo
A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend’s behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide whether to cover for her or risk telling the truth to get her the help she needs. A young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium—though when the offer fails to materialize, that envy threatens to turn vicious, pitting them both against their community. And a lonely daughter finds herself wandering a village in eastern Nigeria in an ill-fated quest, struggling to come to terms with her mother’s mental illness.
Across ten stories, Uche Okonkwo’s A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings, and more, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction.
In Our Own Ways by Yejide Kilanko
After a childhood in the backwaters of a Nigerian fishing town, up-and-comer Senami Mausi is proud of the man he has become. His sprawling compound is his castle and the beautiful Fadaka, daughter of the wealthy Silva family, is his queen. Thanks to the right pedigree and connections, Fadaka and Senami are living an enviable life.
However, cracks begin to appear in their marriage when they struggle to get pregnant. Family and the secrets behind the eventual conception threaten to destroy them. The joy from the arrival of the long-awaited child is short-lived as their marriage crumbles.
A master of self-reinvention, Senami disappears into thin air, taking the child and leaving Fadaka behind to pick up the pieces of her shattered reality. As the days stretch, Fadaka faces two choices: stay home and rebuild or fight for what is rightfully hers.
Mayowa and the Sea of Words by Chibun...
Have you ever jumped on a book? Perhaps not. Most people would think it was a rather unusual thing to do.
Ten-year-old Mayowa has always thought that her Grandpa Edward, who dyes his beard emerald green and jumps on books in private, is rather unusual too. Until one day she jumps on a book for herself, and uncovers a huge family secret …
Mayowa can book jump.
How to Make a Space Masquerade by Maz...
How to Make a Space Masquerade artfully blends speculative fiction with Igbo cosmology, seamlessly merging the earthly realm with a dystopian world. It explores the complexities of the human spirit and the intersection of the two worlds. A girl facing erasure for carrying a virus defies the government to save her life through a trial cure. A space engineer must explain the existence of his human love child resulting from a one-night stand with a robot. The twelve stories in this collection stretch the imagination and demand a review of our notions of self-discovery, human connection and traditions.
In the Company of Men by Veronica Tadjo
Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer’s potions nor the medical team’s treatments could cure. Compounding the family’s grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys’ father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.
In a series of moving snapshots, Véronique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned boy cast out of his village for fear of infection. And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future.