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Unbury Our Dead with Song by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79Unbury 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... -
In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79In 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... -
On Ajayi Crowther Street by Elnathan John
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.39On 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... -
A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.22A 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 Hidden Star by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.94Nolitye 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... -
Avenues By Train by Farai Mudzingwa 9781913175504
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.07When 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... -
Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 9781911115168
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37A 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... -
A Fun ABC by Sade Fadipe
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93Join 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... -
Easy Motion Tourist: An Amaka Series by Leye Adenle
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.07Guy 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... -
Hair: It's A Family Affair by Mylo Freeman
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93A 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... -
German Calendar No December by Sylvia Ofili
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.39Olivia 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... -
Better Never Than Late by Chika Unigwe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.65Charts 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 Whispering Trees by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.65The 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... -
The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.07Rabato 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... -
Sunny and the Mysteries of Osisi by Nnedi Okorafor 9781911115571
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.94Sunny 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... -
The Elevator Kiss by Amina Thula 9781911115236
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.35It'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... -
Princess Arabella Goes to School by Mylo Freeman 9781911115410
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93A 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... -
Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £6.65An 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... -
Obioma Plays Football by Chika Unigwe 9781913175368
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.658 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37One 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... -
Princess Arabella At the Museum by Mylo Freeman 9781913175054
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93Princess 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... -
Obioma (Igbo) by Chika Unigwe 9781913175399
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913175399Author Chika UnigweFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Cassava Republic PressPublisher... -
When Trouble Sleeps by Leye Adenle
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £6.07Amaka 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... -
African Dress Book: 2021 by Mylo Freeman
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93It's a special day in Macy's classroom as all the children come in dressed up in their most stylish African clothing! Zahra's Ethiopian dress is covered in beads, while Malika's Namibian outfit is... -
A Man Who Is Not a Man by Thando Mgqolozana
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79A Man Who Is Not A Man recounts the personal trauma of a young Xhosa initiate after a rite-of-passage circumcision goes wrong. With frankness and courage, this powerful novel details the pain and... -
In the Palace of Flowers by Victoria Princewill
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79Set in Iran at the end of the 19th Century --in the Persian royal court of the Qajars--, In The Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical novel about Jamila, an Abyssinian slave who stands at... -
When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79"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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.29This 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... -
Formation: The Making of Nigeria, From Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.32Formation 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... -
Princess Arabella Mixes Colours by Mylo Freeman 9781911115120
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93Princess 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... -
Love's Persuasion by Ola Awonubi 9781911115205
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.35Things 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... -
Accra Noir by Nana-Ama Danquah
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales-ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one... -
Female Fear Factory: Dismantling Patriarchy's Violent Toolkit by Pumla Dineo Gqola
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.29"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... -
A Small Silence by Jumoke Verissimo
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79Imprisoned 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37"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... -
The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah 9781913175283
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79Aminah 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... -
Mayowa and the Masquerades by Lola Shoneyin 9781911115144
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93Mayowa is unhappy because he has been told he will be visiting his grandmother in Ilisan, Nigeria. When he gets there, Grandma pairs him up with the ever-hungry, fun-loving Denuyi. Together, they... -
Princess Arabella and the Giant Cake by Mylo Freeman
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93A 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... -
Men Don't Cry by Faiza Guene
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.79Mourad and his family live in Nice. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard; his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa. Dounia, the eldest, is a... -
Unfinished Business by Leye Adenle
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.07The third book in the Amaka Thrillers series. Funke's assignation with her pastor lover is cut short when he is assassinated in their hotel room, as she hides naked and terrified inside a sofa...