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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Paperback - $18.95
Achebes first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in peoples lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, O ...
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Hardcover - $26.95
Achebe's masterpiece tells the story of Okonkwo, strongman of an Ibo village in Nigeria, as he witnesses the destruction of his culture and the loss of his own place within it.
Duel with a Dictator. an African Woman's Political Struggle
Emmanuel Acheta
Paperback - $49.95
A "DUEL WITH A DICTATOR" may well be a trashcan of rotten African politics. It is a tale of an African dictator parroting democracy. A story of intrigue, gross human rights abuses, and political violence within the tradition of African tyrants. But t ...
The Lambs of London
Peter Ackroyd
Paperback - $21.95
A tour de force in the tradition of Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton, a gripping novel of betrayal and deceit set in the teeming streets of 19th-century London.
At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs: Cha ...
The Plato Papers : A Prophesy
Peter Ackroyd
Paperback - $23.95
From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the "modern" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence.
At the turn of the ...
The Death of the Author
Gilbert Adair
Paperback - $21.95
In a jet-black satire based on a real-life scandal, the leading writer in a school of literary criticism that says authors are meaningless-"dead"-is discovered to have been a Nazi.
Gilbert Adair is the author of "Love and Death on Long Island" and ...
The Four Days
Big Adam
Paperback - $28.95
"Tater,
I have something to tell you..."
Thus begins "The Four Days," the sequel to Big Adam's previous novel "My Friend Tater" and chronicles the personal holocaustic suffering he endured in the days following the death of the man he called ...