Paperback fiction published in January 2025

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