Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories -

Descriere Midnight in the Morgue and Other Stories -

\nFemi Kayode works in advertising and has written for stage and screen. While studying for an MA in Creative Writing - Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia, he wrote his first novel, Lightseekers (Bloomsbury 2021), which won the Little, Brown/UEA Award for Crime Fiction in 2018. Lightseekers was selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times, was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. His second novel, Gaslight (Bloomsbury 2023) was a Zoe Ball Radio 2 Book Club selection, a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Ian Flemming Steel Dagger. Femi lives in Windhoek, Namibia. \n \nKaren Jennings is a South African author whose novel An Island was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021. Her most recent novel, Crooked Seeds, came out in 2024. She is currently writer-in-residence as a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (LEAP), Stellenbosch University, where she explores history through fiction. Karen is also co-founder of The Island Prize for Debut African Novels. \n \nChika Unigwe is a Nigerian writer and author of four novels. She earned a PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, for her dissertation entitled In the Shadow of Ala: Igbo Women Writing as an Act of Righting. Chika has received a number of awards for her writing, including the 2012 NLNG Prize for Literature, for her novel On Black Sisters' Street. She is the recipient of a number of fellowships, including the 2014 Sylt Fellowship for African Writers. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.\n

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