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Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $15.83An affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and 25-year-old weed dealer Reza was bound to provoke condemnation inconservative Northern Nigeria. Brought together in unusual circumstances, Binta... -
Unbury Our Dead with Song by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $18.54Unbury our Dead With Song is a novel about four talented Ethiopian musicians - The Diva, The Corporal, the Taliban Man and Miriam, who are competing to see who can sing the best Tizita (popularly... -
A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $17.18A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The... -
The Elevator Kiss by Amina Thula 9781911115236
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $10.35It's Christmas Day and Sindi has been invited to her friend's stunning new apartment for dinner. She finds herself in the elevator with a handsome man in a blue cotton suit. Their impromptu kiss... -
Hassan and Hassana by Elnathan John 9781913175405
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $13.09Hassan and Hassana are twins, and they're practically identical. Even though one is a boy and the other a girl, ever since they were babies people have had trouble telling them apart. As identical... -
Sunny and the Mysteries of Osisi by Nnedi Okorafor 9781911115571
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.14Sunny Nwazue is back in this gripping sequel to Nnedi Okorafor's What Sunny Saw in the Flames. Sunny has settled into life at the Leopard Society, with friends Orlu, Chichi and Sasha. Her magic... -
Princess Arabella Mixes Colors by Mylo Freeman 9781911115366
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $12.76Princess Arabella thinks her room is boring. So she decides she's going to do something about that all by herself. She mixes up some paint and in no time at all her room looks fabulous!Mylo Freeman... -
A Fun ABC by Sade Fadipe
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $11.73Join Adanah on an alphabetical adventure as she goes to visit her grandfather in Modakeke, Nigeria. Every letter, from A to Z, is featured in this African alphabet book, including C for a camera to... -
Hair: It's A Family Affair by Mylo Freeman
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $11.73A celebration of natural hair, through the vibrant and varied hairstyles found in a single family. With Mylo Freeman's trademark colourful illustrations, this delightful book will show young black... -
In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $18.54In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new and better world. He meets... -
German Calendar No December by Sylvia Ofili
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.11Olivia Evezi's childhood is a happy one; her days spent listening to highlife records with her father and poring over the colourful postcards her mother receives from Germany. But Olivia is a dreamer... -
The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $14.45Rabato Sabato aka Soni Dike is a Lagos big boy; a criminal turned grandee, with a beautiful wife, a seaside mansion and a questionable fortune. Then one day he disappears and his car is found in a... -
Avenues By Train by Farai Mudzingwa 9781913175504
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.97When seven-year-old Jedza witnesses a tragic incident involving a train and the death of his close boyhood friend in his hometown Miner’s Drift, he is convinced that his life is haunted. Now in his... -
Princess Arabella At the Museum by Mylo Freeman 9781913175054
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $11.73Princess Arabella and her friends go to the museum. There are works of different artists exhibited: some are big and others are small. In some works you can lose yourself and others make you smile... -
Princess Arabella Goes to School by Mylo Freeman 9781911115410
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $11.73A delightful addition to the popular 'Princess Arabella' series. Princess Arabella and her friends embark upon their first day at Princess School. They find themselves taking some very unusual... -
A Small Silence by Jumoke Verissimo
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $18.54Imprisoned for ten years for his rage against society, activist and retired academic Prof resolves to live a life of darkness after his release from prison. He holes up in his apartment, pushing away... -
Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds by Yemisi Aribisala
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $19.92"One of the most enduring myths on the Nigerian Femme Fatale - mammy-water, 'winch' or husband-snatcher - has to do with the cooking of fish stew ...A woman can do what she likes with a man when she... -
When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $18.54"Some of the women walked so slow they were, like, floating. For real. Heads perfectly straight. Hips swaying, left, slow, right, slow, step, slow. If you didn't concentrate you would think they... -
Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa by Sangu Delle
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $26.87This collection tells the story of an emerging, dynamic Africa, through the eyes of some of the youngest and most promising African entrepreneurs. Charting the stories of 17 entrepreneurs working in... -
Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $15.83Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she is in good health and makes the most of it, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche,... -
The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah 9781913175283
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $18.54Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is... -
Princess Arabella is a Big Sister by Mylo Freeman 9781911115717
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $11.73The newest title in the popular Princess Arabella series! Princess Arabella can't wait to have a younger sibling to play with. But what would be most fun- a brother or a sister? Sisters seem great..... -
Princess Arabella Mixes Colours by Mylo Freeman 9781911115120
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $11.73Princess Arabella thinks her room is boring. So she decides she's going to do something about that - all by herself. She mixes up some paint and in no time at all her room looks fabulous.The latest... -
Easy Motion Tourist: An Amaka Series by Leye Adenle
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $14.45Guy Collins, a British hack, is hunting for an election story in Lagos. A decision to check out a local bar in Victoria Island ends up badly - a mutilated female body is discarded close by and... -
On Ajayi Crowther Street by Elnathan John
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.11On the noisy Ajayi Crowther Street in Lagos, neighbours gather to gossip, discuss noise complaints, and faithfully head to church each Sunday. But beneath the surface lies a hidden world of... -
Better Never Than Late by Chika Unigwe
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.83Charts the unconventional lives and love affairs of a group of Nigerian migrants, making their way in Belgium. The collection is centred around Prosperous and her husband Agu, and the various... -
The Hidden Star by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.14Nolitye lives in a shack with her mother Thembi in Phola, a dusty township on the edge of Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones, which she places in a bucket under her bed... -
The Whispering Trees by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.83The magical tales in The Whispering Trees capture the essence of life, death and coincidence in Northern Nigeria. Myth and reality intertwine in stories featuring political agitators, newly-wedded... -
Obioma Plays Football by Chika Unigwe 9781913175368
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.838 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has... -
Why Do You Dance When You Walk by Abdourahman A. Waberi 9781913175320
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $19.92One morning in Paris on the way to kindergarten, a little girl asks her father "Papa, why do you dance when you walk?" The question is innocent and serious. Why does her father limp, why can't he... -
Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 9781911115168
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $19.92A Ghanaian explores the increasing influence of China across the region, a Kenyan student activist writes of exile in Kampala, a Liberian scientist shares her diary of the Ebola crisis; a Nigerian... -
Obioma (Igbo) by Chika Unigwe 9781913175399
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913175399Author Chika UnigweFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint -
The Moon Will Not Burn Us: The Untold Story of the Women Who Liberated Guinea-Bissau 9781913175863
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $26.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913175863Format HardbackImprint Cassava Republic PressPublisher Cassava Republ -
Princess Arabella and the Giant Cake by Mylo Freeman
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $12.76A new title in the popular 'Princess Arabella' series. It is almost Granny's birthday and Princess Arabella and her friends set out to bake the most DELICIOUS and most GIGANTIC cake in the entire... -
Formation: The Making of Nigeria, From Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $31.70Formation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that led to the creation of the modern Nigerian nation: from 1804 when the first Jihadists began their attack on a collection of... -
Becoming Nigerian: A Guide by Elnathan John
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.83In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to the Nigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. It is a... -
Love's Persuasion by Ola Awonubi 9781911115205
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $10.35Things are changing for the staff of Lagos firm City Finance, and not necessarily for the best. But for Ada Okafor, a bright, dedicated and beautiful trainee accountant, the only change worth... -
Henrietta Lacks: The Mother of Modern Medicine by Dawne Allette 9781913175276
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.83Henrietta Lacks: The Mother of Modern Medicine introduces young readers to the remarkable story of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cancer cells revolutionised medical science. This... -
When Trouble Sleeps by Leye Adenle
RRP: $35.58Booksplease Price: $14.45Amaka returns in this gripping sequel to Easy Motion Tourist, and finds herself in more trouble than ever. When a plane crash kills the state gubernatorial candidate, Chief Ojo is picked to replace... -
Female Fear Factory: Dismantling Patriarchy's Violent Toolkit by Pumla Dineo Gqola
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $26.87"Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively." Drawing on examples from around the...