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Boys, Girls and Beasts

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By Nathaniel Bivan
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Wars are not easy to forestall,

nor are enemies—within or without—easy to destroy.

It is 2068 in the city-state of Malovo, and young Jaka’s life has been shattered to pieces. War ripped the teenager from all he had ever known and loved—took his identity, and future—and has become his world. To survive, he split his consciousness in two: One with a gun, an oath and a raging fury; and the other a youngling who lived, dreamed, and disappeared into his subconscious.

When Jaka discovers once-latent abilities, they draw the attention of mysterious allies and formidable enemies, each with hidden agendas. But the secrets he uncovers along the way reveal a far-reaching conspiracy that threatens not only his survival, but the very fibre of his reality. As he rallies both friend and foe to take a stand, a growing, hungry darkness awaits to consume them all.

Nathaniel Bivan

Nathaniel Bivan is a solutions and conflict journalist whose reporting has taken him to terror zones in Kaduna, Plateau, Niger, and Borno states of northern Nigeria.

Until 2021, he was Arts Editor for Daily Trust, one of his country’s most influential newspapers. He was also Features Editor for HumAngle Media, arguably one of Africa’s fastest growing newsrooms, where he reported about the violent conflict plaguing the region. He has mentored journalists under the Solutions Journalism Africa Initiative and mostly contributes for The Christian Science Monitor among other newsrooms.

His children’s storybook, Flowerblind, was published in 2018 under the African storybook project, and his memoir on the SSA to former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Christian Religious Affairs titled My Time as Chaplian: An Account of Venerable Obioma Onwuzurumba was released in 2022.

"Boys, Girls and Beasts is a superb, action-packed story that holds the reader spellbound from the first page to the last. Nathaniel Bivan spins a wild tale that is both very familiar and exudes a remarkable strangeness. His vivid descriptions give the reader a driver-seat-like view of the unfolding scenes, and lets you taste and feel the world he’s created. I highly recommend this for anyone looking for a tale of adventure that would keep them at the edge of their seat.”

—Mazi Nwonwu, author of How to Make a Space Masquerade & Other Stories

“Grievously flawed characters and inventive world-building collide into a gripping, explosive tale.”

—Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu

“Nathaniel Bivan is a breath-taking writer. Good luck to anyone reading this book because it is likely you’ll read it through a haze of tears. Bivan writes delicately about an incredibly monstrous war. A state and time that is of Bivan’s creation, yet a channelling of ancestral pain I could deeply resonate with. There are books that tell you a story and there are books that become part of your story; Bivan gifts the reader the latter. Sci-fi with soul!”

—Kelechi Okafor, author of Edge of Here

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Book Trim130 x 198mm
Number of Pages200
ISBN (Paperback)978-978-998-792-4
Release DateNovember 15, 2024

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