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Lots of tempting paperback goodies to spend your Christmas book tokens on if you’re lucky enough to be given some this year, including several I’ve already read. Spanning a decade in Nigeria beginning in 2006, Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s’s Blessings is a poignant coming-of-age story in which a boy struggles to keep his sexuality under wraps in […]
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It was that cover that snagged my attention when I was pitched Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s Blessings. With its image of a strikingly handsome but melancholy young man, it fits the novel well. Spanning a decade in Nigeria beginning in 2006, Ibeh’s debut is a poignant coming-of-age story in which a boy struggles to keep his sexuality
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Lots of us in the Northern hemisphere are burying ourselves in books, escaping the grey gloom outside and looking forward to spring. Fortunately, there’s lots on offer to distract us, certainly enough for two helpings of books to look out for, beginning with one I’ve already read. Spanning a decade in Nigeria from 2006, Chukwuebuka
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