OPTIONED BOOKS IN DEVELOPMENT
OPTIONED BOOKS IN DEVELOPMENT
DANCE OF THE VULTURES
Author: Peter Nwankwo
While working in bustling Lagos, Pat Jenkins meets a fellow Englishman who mysteriously asks him to look after a padlocked box. The next day, Pat is shocked to find the man’s photograph adorning the front page of the news: Englishman Murdered. Pat is shaken up so his boss offers to get rid of the box for him, but this is just the beginning of a dangerous journey filled with murky characters who all want to get their hands on the contents of that box.
TRUTH IS A FLIGHTLESS BIRD
Author: Akbar Hussain
American Pastor Duncan Bernado is picking up his old friend (and college crush), Nice, from the Nairobi airport. Seemingly innocent Nice is coming for some R&R - she's the last person you'd expect to actually be smuggling narcotics. Duncan’s car crashes on the way home and he awakes to find himself captive to a sociopathic policeman and his charmingly amoral associate - Nice is gone. Plucked from his expat bubble, Duncan must plunge into the moral complexities of the under-city to get her back. But how deep can Duncan go without destroying his faith and himself?
THE MADAMS
Author: Zukiswa Wanner
The Madams follows the picture-perfect life of Thandi - a black woman who lives in one of the wealthier areas of racially charged, post-apartheid South Africa. Thandi loves her bourgeois little life; she has a happy marriage, a happy son, and two best friends she adores - Nosizwe, her uni friend with an occasionally alarming shopping problem, and Lauren, her naïve yet mostly well-intentioned white neighbour. Despite her good life, Thandi finds herself struggling to maintain the balance of being a sexy desirable wife, a badass employee, and a nurturing mom. And our story begins when Thandi decides to shake the status quo by becoming a true 'madam' and hiring not just a maid, but a white one.
