Bookshelf

Bookshelf

Five books for aspiring brides

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray. It is a non-fiction self-help book and John Gray’s most famous book for couples who want t

Between poets and their craft

Is there a ‘shift’ in poetry in Nigeria? Odoh Diego Okenyodo, author of the acclaimed collection ‘From a Poem to its Creator’

Why I left the classroom for the bookstore – Dauda Abubakar

Bookshelf: What’s that one thing you love about Booksellers? Dauda Abubakar: It’s the arrangement of the bookstore. Books are arranged in

The secret libraries of history

Beneath the streets of a suburb of Damascus, rows of shelves hold books that have been rescued from bombed-out buildings. Over the past four years, du

Commonwealth Short Story Prize calls for entries

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize awarded for the best unpublished short fiction, of between 2, 000 to 5, 000 words in English, is open for entries.