Better Never than Late

Similar books (20)

• 

  I Do Not Come to You by Chance

  A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to You by Chance tells the story of one young man and the family who loves him.
  
  Being the opara of the fa…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Parlour Wife

  Kehinde must put everything on the line to find herself during a time of war.
  
  Lagos, 1939
  
  With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

  Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts, from the internationally bestselling author of Nearly All the Men in Lagos…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Nightbloom

  Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel about the unbreakable power of female friendship.
  
  When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they w…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

  A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity with the women who have survived romantic relationships with men in Lagos….it deftly analyses the var…

  Buy this book on Amazon

• Nights of the Creaking Bed

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Under the Udala Trees

  Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.
  
  Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born befo…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Broken People's Playlist

  A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into the other seamlessly. From its poignant beginning in “Lost Stars” a s…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Mechanics of Yenagoa

  Ebinimi, star mechanic of Kalakala Street, is a man with a hapless knack for getting in and out of trouble. Some of his troubles are self-inflicted: like his recurring entanglements in love triangles;…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Good Name

  Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to re-write his story, Eziafa returns to Nigeria to find a woman he can mold to his taste. Eighteen-year-old Zina has b…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Dream Count

  A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their lo…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Wahala

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

  Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?"
  
  Yinka's Nigerian aunti…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right

  Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria's societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pre…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

  African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Whispering Trees

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Hairdresser of Harare

  Like very good dark chocolate this is a delicious novel, with a bitter-sweet flavour. Vimbai is a hairdresser, the best in Mrs Khumalo's salon, and she knows she is the queen on whom they all depend. …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Born on a Tuesday

  From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Rootless

  Buy this book on Amazon