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In store 📚 – Three Strong Women by Marie NDiayeFrom the acclaimed literary celebrity—the first black woman ever to win t...
29/04/2026

In store 📚 – Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye

From the acclaimed literary celebrity—the first black woman ever to win the Prix Goncourt—a harrowing and beautiful novel of the travails of West African immigrants in France, giving voice as never before to Europe’s most unwanted.
This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white French boyfriend back to France, where his depression and dislocation poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband’s family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin (the aforementioned Fanta) in France (a place she can scarcely conceive). As these three lives intertwine, each woman manages an astonishing feat of self-preservation against the incomprehensibly methodical and relentless humiliation that is the unacknowledged life of those who have made themselves the fastest-growing, and most-reviled, people in Europe. In Marie NDiaye’s luminous narration we see with stunning emotional exactitude the progress by which ordinary women discover unimagined reserves of strength.

Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
KES 2290/-

In store 📚 – An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie ObiomaA young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to...
29/04/2026

In store 📚 – An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and Ndali fall in love, but it is a mismatch according to her family who reject him because of his lowly status. Is it love or madness that makes Chinonso think he can change his destiny?

Set across Nigeria and Cyprus, An Orchestra of Minorities, written in the mythic style of the Igbo tradition, weaves a heart-wrenching tale about fate versus free will.

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
KES 1950/-

We came for “Dealing with the Dead”…but the room was full of life.🖤Reflections were shared,stories were felt,and a board...
29/04/2026

We came for “Dealing with the Dead”…but the room was full of life.🖤
Reflections were shared,stories were felt,and a board was filled.
Thank you to everyone who came through🫶🏿

Men,this is your invite-don’t miss the next one👀.

In store 📚 – The Drinker of Horizons by Mia CoutoIf history is always narrated by the victors, in his Trilogy, Couto per...
29/04/2026

In store 📚 – The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto

If history is always narrated by the victors, in his Trilogy, Couto performs an act of restorative justice, supplying a voice to those silenced by the horrors of colonialism. As he depicts the beauty and terror of war and love, and reveals the devastation of a profoundly unequal clash of cultures, he gives a uniquely personal voice to a little-known period of history. Set against the backdrop of the war between the Kingdom of Gaza, one of the last great pre-colonial African kingdoms, and the Portuguese colonialists, a young African woman Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo have shared an unexpected love.
While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani is enlisted to serve as interpreter to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to Lisbon. Imani will come back only after a decade-long odyssey through the Portuguese empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. For Ngungunyane and his seven wives, it will be a journey of no return.

The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto
KES 3490/-

In store 📚 – Oil On Water by Helon HabilaFrom the desks of Nigeria’s newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find th...
29/04/2026

In store 📚 – Oil On Water by Helon Habila

From the desks of Nigeria’s newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq, an infamous media hack, knows what’s in store, but Rufus, a keen young journalist eager to get himself noticed, has no idea what he’s let himself in for. Journeying into the oil-rich regions of the Niger Delta, where militants rule and the currency dealt in is the lives of hostages, Rufus soon finds himself acting as intermediary between editor, husband, captive and soldier. As they follow the trail of the missing woman, love for the ‘story’ becomes about much more than just uncovering her whereabouts, and instead becomes a mission to make sense of their own muddled lives. In a cruel twist of fate, Rufus finds himself taking on Zaq’s role much more literally than he ever anticipated, and as the body count rises, and the environment burns, he learns that truth can often be a bitter pill to swallow.

Oil On Water by Helon Habila
KES 1750/-

In store 📚 – The Autobiography Of My Mother by Jamaica KincaidXuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy y...
29/04/2026

In store 📚 – The Autobiography Of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother.

Xuela’s vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to another household at the earliest opportunity; of her passion for the stevedore Roland, who fulfils her sexually but not intellectually; and of her husband, who provides her with status and a wealthy lifestyle but whom she is incapable of loving.

Poetic and disturbing, The Autobiography of My Mother is one of Kincaid’s most powerful statements of Afro-Caribbean women’s struggle for identity and independence, against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.

The Autobiography Of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
KES 1650/-

In store 📚 – The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique MukasongaIt was while we were weeding the sorghum field that Mama taught...
29/04/2026

In store 📚 – The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga

It was while we were weeding the sorghum field that Mama taught me most of her memories of the Rwanda that used to be. Alas! I’ve forgotten so many of the secrets Stefania told me, the secrets a mother tells only her daughter
From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Our Lady of the Nile, a haunting, delicately wrought work of non-fiction, memorialising a lost childhood, community and way of life.
When Scholastique Mukasonga’s family are killed in the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda, she is unable to fulfil her mother Stefania’s wish to shroud her body with pagne. So instead, she now weaves her mother’s shroud with words, drawing on inherited traditions of storytelling to offer a devastating, unforgettable tribute.
In beautiful, lucid prose, Mukasonga lays before us the fierce courage and strength of her mother as she fought for her children’s safety, her family’s exile to the Burundi border and her community’s efforts to maintain ritual and tradition. Vivid, evocative and deeply moving, this is a remarkable work of art and act of love.

The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga
KES 1590/-

In store 📚 – Curandera by Irenosen OkojieA cross between Perfume and The Secret History, Curandera explores the darker e...
28/04/2026

In store 📚 – Curandera by Irenosen Okojie

A cross between Perfume and The Secret History, Curandera explores the darker elements of shamanism, desire and friendship.
In the mountainous town of Gethsemane, a mysterious woman’s arrival sparks a series of strange events that will leave the town’s inhabitants changed - men sporadically blind in the afternoons, children disappearing and reappearing without warning and infertile women pregnant with the memories of past births.
In London, Therese, a botanist, is quietly on the hunt for a rare form of pe**te. Therese lives with three friends in a Victorian house, Azacca, a Haitian musician who leaves offerings, Peruvian drifter Emilien who is haunted by the past and adventurous Finn, who is increasingly drawn to living life on the edge. When Therese discovers she can heal the sick, jealousy and resentment fracture their bond.

Curandera by Irenosen Okojie
KES 1790/-

In store 📚 – House of Marionne by J.ElleA modern-day romantasy set in a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbid...
28/04/2026

In store 📚 – House of Marionne by J.Elle

A modern-day romantasy set in a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbidden love, and a dark magic that could destroy the world. Quell Marionne has lived her entire life on the run in order to hide the deadly magic that flows through her veins. Until someone discovers her dark secret and wants her dead. Quell enrols into a society called the Order and sets to pass their three rites of membership. If she is successful she will be able to bury her forbidden magic forever. However things start to get more complicated when she meets her brooding mentor, Jordan. Nothing is quite as it seems in the Order and it isn’t long until Quell realises her enemies may be closer than she thinks .

House of Marionne by J.Elle
KES 2990/-

In store 📚 – House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. MaasBryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―the...
28/04/2026

In store 📚 – House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.

The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. And they’ve never been very good at staying silent.

In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode―and the people who will do anything to save it.

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
KES 2200/-

In store 📚 – House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. MaasThe stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City ...
28/04/2026

In store 📚 – House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath.

Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she’s going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that’s no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust.

Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he’s in the Asteri’s dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce’s fate. He’s desperate to help her, but until he can escape the Asteri’s leash, his hands are quite literally tied.

In this sexy, breathtaking sequel to the #1 bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas’s Crescent City series reaches new heights as Bryce and Hunt’s world is brought to the brink of collapse-with its future resting on their shoulders.

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
KES 3950/-

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