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A Fire in My Head by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak. Ben Okri is known for his electrifying imagery and for his passionate response to the issues of our day. He is a ...Show more
A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking- the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion ...Show more
A Time for New Dreams by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A collection of exquisitely crafted essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics. 'A single line,' writes Ben Okri, 'can lead the mind to terraces of contempla ...Show more
Every Leaf A Hallelujah by Diana Ben; Ejaita Okri
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An environmental fairytale made for our times, written to be read by adults and children, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road. 'It was a sheer joy to be able to read this. It is mysterious and magical and true. Children and those who read it to them will love it and long remember i ...Show more
Mental Fight by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far - art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine and, for many of us, the miracle of free ...Show more
Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking- the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion ...Show more
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Rise Like Lions, Booker Prize winning writer Ben Okri has compiled a collection of poems that celebrate the many voices of politics, from polemics and rallying cries to lyrics and meditations. Many of these poems have resonated with readers over lifetimes and through generations, from William Blake t ...Show more
The Comic Destiny by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
As one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language. Here, the Booker prize-winning author brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet. This significant title st ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The Famished Road Trilogy
Winner of The Booker Prize 1991 So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri; Vanessa Guignery (Introduction by)
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their eff ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace, and uncommon power."--Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "The Freedom Artist represents a heady jumble of influence and inspiration, a tapestry of biblica ...Show more
The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Man Booker-winning The Famished Road, a young woman is arrested for speaking four simple words - Who is the Prisoner?This question resonates throughout the novel, and by the end it has become the question every reader has to ask themselves. The answer is im ...Show more