We are delighted to welcome two amazing writers and their forthcoming titles into our family. We present these powerful literary fiction titles that explore the depths of human relationships, conflict, loss, love, community, family and what it means to be human.<\/p>\n
WATER BABY by Chioma Okereke<\/strong><\/p>\n Water Baby<\/em>\u00a0is an adventurous and insightful story about Makoko. Through a colourful cast of characters and her evocative portrayal of their floating environment, Chioma Okereke invites us into a dynamic and often overlooked community.<\/p>\n In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With opportunities scarce, Baby jumps at the chance to join a newly launched drone-mapping project, aimed at broadening the visibility of the informal settlement and her community.<\/p>\n When a video of her at work goes viral, Baby finds herself with options she could never have imagined\u2014including the possibility of leaving her birthplace to represent Makoko on the world stage. But will life beyond the lagoon be everything she\u2019s dreamed of? Or has everything she wants been in front of her all along?<\/p>\n Water Baby has been critically appraised as:<\/p>\n \u201cA brilliant, evocative read. In Okereke\u2019s hands, Makoko is a world full of heart and beauty.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cThis novel simmers with beauty and potential and you can\u2019t help but root for its heroine, Baby, as she earns her wings.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cA beautifully written novel, full of vibrant imagery and characters who leap off the page. I loved going on Baby\u2019s journey with her.\u201d About the Author<\/strong> THE ROAD TO THE COUNTRY by Chigozie Obioma<\/strong> When his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission. Kunle\u2019s search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see him conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army and forced to fight a war he hardly understands, all while navigating the prophecies of a local Seer, he who marks Kunle as an abami eda\u2014one who will die and return to life.<\/p>\n
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\nChioma Okereke was born in Benin City, Nigeria. She started her writing career as a poet and performed throughout Europe and the United States before turning her hand to fiction. Her work has been shortlisted in the Undiscovered Authors Competition 2006, run by Bookforce UK, and in the Daily Telegraph\u2019s \u2018Write a Novel in a Year\u2019 Competition in 2007.<\/p>\n
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\nSet in Nigeria in the late 1960s, Chigozie Obioma\u2019s new novel is an odyssey of brotherhood, love, and unimaginable courage set during one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of Africa. Intertwining myth and realism into a thrilling, inspired, and emotionally powerful novel, The Road to the Country is Chigozie Obioma\u2019s masterpiece.<\/p>\n