Chris Abani
The Virgin Of The Flames
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
For Black, a mural artist in East L.A., the city's tumbledown landscape is his canvas. Residing in a ramshackle apartment above 'The Ugly Store', he lives for his art and obsesses over Sweet Girl, the transvestite stripp... Buy or find out more →
Song For Night
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier’s lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. The reader is led by the voiceless pro... Buy or find out more →
GraceLand
$20.95 – Paperback book / Picador Us
The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by floods, and beatings by his a... Buy or find out more →
Becoming Abigail
$21.99 – Paperback book / Akashic Books
Tough, spirited and fiercely independent Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. She flees and in the aftermath struggles to find herself in the sh... Buy or find out more →