Blogs in July 2020

No Longer at Ease 25th July 2020

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be corruption. Obi manages to...

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The Joys of Motherhood 25th July 2020

Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children – leaving her little time to make friends.

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The Thing Around Your Neck 25th July 2020

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...

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Way Beyond A Lie 25th July 2020

‘I know exactly what you’ve been going through.’ Ross McKinlay’s fairly ordinary life turns a somersault when his Italian wife, Carla, disappears from inside an Edinburgh supermarket. As the reasons for her disappearance emerge, his moods intensify from anxiety...

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The Stand 25th July 2020

Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. ‘THE STAND is a masterpiece’ (Guardian). Set...

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