Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023

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This is a truly stunning book; it's brave by every measure of the word, formally challenging, radical in subject matter, bold in narrative voice. People could be sitting down in a beer parlor casually drinking and the whirlwind would swoop in suddenly to collect a single person from their midst. was a finalist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

I wondered who was the first to break his heart–where he'd gained that knowledge the first time around. She is the winner of the 2021 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction, as well as an ASME Award for fiction. Marginalized, forced underground, or compelled to exist in two different skins, gay, lesbian, transgender, and nonbinary Nigerians still manage to overcome boundaries and soar with pride in this bold, erotic first novel from Lambda Literary Fellow Osunde. When the mysterious self-moving towers that keep humans safe from the Creator's ancient curse rebel, Psal attempts to find the Constant Tower and break the power of the third moon. I was initially surprised that it didn't really have much int he way of a conclusion, but that is kind of the point.

He had heard of the Appalachian Trail, but he had never seriously considered attempting to hike all 2,184. The novel highlights the lives of those who are often invisible in society, including queer individuals, the poor, the displaced, and rogue spirits, as they navigate danger and resistance in their quest for true lives.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. There’s nothing better than discovering new authors, and as we look to 2023, our excitement is growing at the spectacular debuts we have coming to grace our shelves. They were only worried for him, because the family tree seemed to grow toward a warning: madness was wet soil and many people, once they'd stumbled on it, couldn't help hurtling to the end of a too-dark valley.As their lives begin to intertwine-in markets and underground clubs, in churches and hotel rooms-the vagabonds are seized and challenged by the spirits who command the city.

They fought to exhaustion, then hugged and shook hands before heading off together, asking: "So what was that your name again? A great night to feel the beat in your thighs, in your stomach, in your chest, pounding through your veins. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.

They were looking for cardboard for their school project when a small child looked up and said, See oh, see, pointing at the sky. A feast of a book, a marvelous ode to spirits and outsiders that is irreverent (and painfully funny) while being serious enough to drill a hole in one’s chest. Steeped in magical realism and a narrative voice reminiscent of early Salman Rushdie, Eloghosa Osunde's exuberant debut novel. This poetry makes it easy for the author to talk about the city’s ills — crime, corruption, domestic violence, bloodshed — while keeping it light. Most Nigerians remember this match, whether they were born at the time or not; know the story like they know God-with a fervent, fastidious faith.

It sits you down and compels you to look at [its] characters, all of whom are wholly formed and terrifyingly real. But guy, you beat the hell out of me wallahi," and got placating replies: "Sorry, my brother, you know we did what we had to do. readers get the great satisfaction of watching those on the outside intertwine with one another and take command of this mystical being that is controlling Lagos.Perhaps the only common ground between the similarly titled but very different books is that they were both written for people who wander, who find home in those they meet along on the way. Osunde's freewheeling takedown of Nigerian capitalism introduces you to the unforgettable spirits and misfits of Lagos. A book in which love overpowers taboo, and long-repressed truths about Nigerian identity hold the center. Sickly fifteen-year-old Prince Psal, the son of warrior-king Nahas, should have been named Crown Prince of all Wheel Clan lands.