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The first book I’ve read by the legendary Thomas Harris and I could not put it down. Our protagonist is Will Graham, a once-retired FBI...

The Woman Next Door is brilliant and drenched in macabre. Two old women, one black and recently widowed, the other white and ignorantly...

Emeka is the biography of Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, general and leader of the nation of Biafra, written by English author, Fredrick Forsyth....

Cross' novel (the third I’ve read, after Captive and Luther) tells the story of three characters; Jack Shepherd, originally a family man...

Mr. In-Between is, so far, my least favourite book by Neil Cross. Not only was the content very dark (a lot of violence and gore) but...

This novel is brilliantly written. Set in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, it tells the tale of black women, who worked as maids for...

This is the first A. L. Shields book I’ve read and Oh, boy! Picture a cross (for you series-buffs) between Scandal and Prison Break, but...

What can one say about Junot Díaz? Drown is the second body of work I've read by Díaz, after This Is How You Lose Her, which, dear...

Foreign Gods Inc. tells the tale of Ike, an over-educated middle-aged Nigerian man who drives a taxi in New York, loathes and adores...

This is the second book I’ve read by Dekker, the first being Green. Showdown is set in a small mountain town, Paradise, in Colorado,...

Troubled Horizon & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Nigerian author, Ann Esievoadje, for young adult readers. The five...

This is the second book I've read written by Rivers. Rivers doesn't write a genre I would typically go out of my way to search for --...

The first book by Ryan Singer I’ve read; I quite enjoyed it. It was heavy on technicalities where law and internet encryption are...

I’ve never read anything like this novel before; not a novel written almost entirely in patois, or a novel with such sharp and unexpected...

I struggled through the greater part of this book because I felt Kilanko lifted Atta's template for Everything Good Will Come. The story...

What Achebe does in this collection of 16 essays is to explain to the reader, intentionally and clearly, his views on a number of issues,...

What I love about this book is how original it is. And already, starting a book review like this, it feels as though I will have nothing...

It’s a little difficult to write this review because Bomboy is like no other novel I have read. It has elements of the supernatural, the...

Blackass tells the tale of Furo Wariboko, a frustrated young man in the thickets of job-hunting in Nigeria’s tough labour market, who...

Set in colonial Nigeria (Igbo land) the novel tells the story of Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu (a god) in the village of Umuaro. Ezeulu...