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A Fire in My Head by Ben Okri
Category: Gift
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
Category: 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
Category: Non-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
A Way of Being Free by Ben Okri
Category: Reference
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects such as art, politics, storytelling and creativity, A WAY OF BEING FREE confirms Okri's place as one of the ...Show more
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
Category: Fiction
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time ...Show more
Every Leaf A Hallelujah by Diana Ben; Ejaita Okri
Category: 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
In Arcadia by Ben Okri
Category: Fiction
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired. A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo Station in London to Paris and a four hundred year old enigma, the painting by Nicolas Poussin known as ' ...Show more
Justice and Love - A Philosophical Dialogue by Mary Zournazi; Rowan Williams; Ben Okri (Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction
How do we see and act justly in the world? In what ways can we ethically respond to social and economic crisis? How do we address the desperation that exists in the new forms of violence and atrocity? These are all questions at the heart of Justice and Love, a philosophical dialogue on how to imagine an ...Show more
Mental Fight by Ben Okri
Category: Gift
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
Category: 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
Category: Gift
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