• The New Tribe (African Writers Series)

    When a baby girl is abandoned at birth, Reverend Arlington and his wife Ginny are only too happy to adopt her. The media cover this moving story, and a Nigerian woman living in England takes more than a passing interest in the Arlingtons. She decides that they world provide the right Christian home for her own baby, Chester. Shortly afterwards, Chester is delivered to social services with a letter explaining that the Arlingtons should be his new parents. So young Chester enters the vicarage of the sleepy seaside village of St Simon. He is the only black child for miles around.

    The New Tribe tells the story of Chester’s long search for his true identity, and the challenges he faces as a black child in a white family.

  • Taking A Stand (The Judacan Adventures 6)

    When a secret is uncovered, Nagela is angry enough to want payback. She wants the offender to feel her anger and humiliation but is revenge her answer?

    Dorm mate Joy, on the other hand, is doing all she can, to make a difference until she lets the feelings of others railroad her away from focus.

    Both girls are taking a stand but for what? The girls are back…

  • The Lost Princess

    Suitable for JHS students and children between 12 and 15 years

    Bakoma: Abandoned in a cave as a baby with obscure origins but found by some women. Bakoma grows from a nobody in the palace of Nton, with the kind of beauty kings and princes would die for. She falls in love the heir apparent to the throne, Prince Gyakari, a man she couldn’t have. This was a taboo and yet she couldn’t help herself. Prince Gyakari: Heir apparent to the Nton throne, tall, handsome, a proven warrior and backed by an immense wealth. He is determined to have Bakoma as his wife even through tradition forbids him to marry a commoner. His inheritance is at stake and though his head warns him to desist, his heart would not let him go. Will these two star crossed lovers ever overcome the obstacle of tradition and be together?

  • Kidnappers in Action

    Age Range: 6 – 12 years

    In this exciting story, a young boy must outsmart a band of kidnappers.

  • A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series, AWS36)

    Barack Obama, via Facebook: “A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.”

    The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s best-known novel

    Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya’s independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village’s chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers’ tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.

  • Between Wars

    In a single twist of war, two sister, Enkaakye and Timaa, find their lives turned upside down. Enkaakye resiliently waits for the return from war of the one she loves. Timaa chooses to give up hope and patience, and move on with her life. The sisters’ choices lead to consequences that threaten their bond of sisterhood to its core.

    As war drums begin to beat in their community once more, will their relationship survive the imminent danger?

    Between Wars is a heartwarming story of love, loss, family, and friendship. Above all, it shows how wisdom and courage can be found in the most unexpected of places.

    Between Wars

    40.00
  • A Cowrie of Hope (African Writers Series)

    “These were the nineties,” reflects the narrator of A Cowrie of Hope, and for the young widow Nasula they are years of relentless economic hardship and privation. She dreams of a better life for her beautiful daughter, Sula, free from poverty and independent of marriage. But when Nasula finds herself unable to pay for Sula’s education, her hopes seem to have been extinguished – until a friend advised her to go to Lusaka and sell her last sack of highly sought-after Mbala beans. Nasula makes the journey, but in the city she finds herself exposed to new, and predatory, dangers.

    In A Cowrie of Hope Binwell Sinyangwe captures the rhythms of a people whose poverty has not diminished their dignity, where hope can only be accompanied by small acts of courage, and where friendship has not lost its value.

  • Mine Boy (African Writers Series, AWS6)

    When Xuma move to Johannesburg he is a naive country boy, but the impact of harsh city life awakens him to the new ways and values of  radically different world. His vision of a ‘man without colour’, a raceless society, is shattered by the realities of his underprivileged existence.
    First published in 1946, this novel was one of the first books to expose universally the condition of black South Africans under a white regime. Abrahams’ forceful but restrained images of discrimination in the gold mines, the appalling housing and Xuma’s simple, humanitarian act of defiance, struck a chord around the world. Mine Boy has remained a central influence on South African fiction for over fifty years.
  • Back to School (The Judacan Adventures 5)

    It is the stand of a brand new year and the commencement of the second term. The girls are excited to return to school (most of them anyway). They are red up; new classes to attend, extracurricular activities to engage in, seniors to outwit and teachers to please.

    They can't wait to share all their holiday experiences with their mates; and who is the new girl in St. Frances Dorm 6?

    Judacan girls are going 'back to school' and banking on an eventful term.

  • Miss Fresher (The Judacan Adventures 3)

    Joy loves her role as a lady in shining armour; ready to race in and save her dorm mate Diane from classroom tyranny. Or is she secretly worried? Freshers' Night is back on and St. Francis House is not have a walk in the park. Which house will emerge as the overall winner? And who will take the all important Ms. Fresher crown? The twists and turns continue at St. Jude's Academy for Girls.

  • No Vengeance

    Age Range: 13+ years

    Colonel Barlow had cheated death many years back. He had been forced into exile by the man who had wanted him dead at the time of the uprising. He is back and must meet his adversary. He has returned with his son Kit, a battle tested soldier.

    Why does Sonday refuse to meet him face to face? Does he fear reprisal? And what is the cause of his nightmares? Meanwhile where is the blue diamond ring?

    No Vengeance

    40.00
  • A Girl Says No! – An Anthology

    Efua, a young and charming student, never dreamt about doing the things some other girls did to get money. She relied on her father for all her financial needs, but now that her father has refused to care for her, what was she to do? Could she continue to say NO to all the temptations coming her way?

    ***

    Kwame was dangerously broke. The bills kept piling up, the debtors kept coming, and tension rose to unbearable proportions. What would he do? He believed in miracles, but he didn’t expect one so soon. But when it came, he couldn’t believe it. Where did this large sum of money his son brought home come from?

    ***

    You are in for a real adventure as you read these and other short stories in this book.

  • Studying at Home

    This book brings to you practical advice on your studies at home: doing your homework, using time wisely, and being disciplined. It is important to know that there is time for everything – time for play and time for your studies.

    You will also learn about the danger in copying your friend’s work during exams. The book also shows you how to pass your exams and pass well.

    It is a practical guide for boys and girls in primary and junior secondary schools.

  • Đe Modzaka: Book 1 (Ewe)

    This book  is a collection of four(4) illustrated folktales in Ewe

  • Men of the South

    In Johannesburg three men’s lives revolve around one woman. Mfundo is a struggling jazz musician. All hope of ever becoming famous end when he gets into a macho fight with an international R&B artist. No one is keen to employ him any longer, and Mfundo takes the role of house-husband. But his girlfriend Sli is not willing to be the ‘man’ of the house. Mzilikazi is a gay man in a heterosexual marriage. One of the few people in his life who do not question the decision he makes is his best friend, Sli. Tinaye is a Zimbabwean struggling to gain citizenship in South Africa hence his current situation – underpaid and overqualified. The only way to gain citizenship is to marry Grace. But then he meets Sli…

    Men of the South

    135.00

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