From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds!: an audacious and eye-opening exploration of cross-generational queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond … a vivid, stirring revolution’ YRSA DALEY-WARD
From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds!: an audacious and eye-opening exploration of cross-generational queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond … a vivid, stirring revolution’ YRSA DALEY-WARD
From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds!: an audacious and eye-opening exploration of cross-generational queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond … a vivid, stirring revolution’ YRSA DALEY-WARD
JUNE 2025 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
In this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic, espionage and family secrets that will alter the path of her life forever.
‘Wildly inventive … Allison King is a talent to watch’ LIZ MOORE
‘Necessary Fiction’s Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive’ MARLON JAMES
‘A vital work for our times’ IRENOSEN OKOJIE
‘A homage to the chosen family who accept you as you are’ DEAN ATTA
‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond … a vivid, stirring revolution’ YRSA DALEY-WARD
‘Necessary Fiction’s Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive’ MARLON JAMES
‘A vital work for our times’ IRENOSEN OKOJIE
‘A homage to the chosen family who accept you as you are’ DEAN ATTA
‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond … a vivid, stirring revolution’ YRSA DALEY-WARD
‘A gut punch of a novel’ BOBBY PALMER
‘Thrillingly alive’ ANDREW McMILLAN
‘Everyone should read this’ JUSTIN MYERS
‘A storm of a novel’ LUCY ROSE
A powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door, from the acclaimed author of Good Intentions.
‘A gut punch of a novel’ BOBBY PALMER
‘Thrillingly alive’ ANDREW McMILLAN
‘Everyone should read this’ JUSTIN MYERS
‘A storm of a novel’ LUCY ROSE
A powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door, from the acclaimed author of Good Intentions.
‘Addictive writing wrapped up in a compelling page turner that makes you deeply think and feel’ YOMI ADEGOKE
‘An incisive new voice in fiction’ COCO MELLORS
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‘Riotously audacious and entertaining – cinematic, jazzlike, a humdinger of a novel’ KAMILA SHAMSIE
‘A maximalist epic that grabs you by the collar’THE STATESMAN
‘A wild romp that ends with the scent of river water in your nose and the breath of a flute in your ears’INDIA TODAY
‘Riotously audacious and entertaining – cinematic, jazzlike, a humdinger of a novel’ KAMILA SHAMSIE
‘A maximalist epic that grabs you by the collar’THE STATESMAN
‘A wild romp that ends with the scent of river water in your nose and the breath of a flute in your ears’INDIA TODAY
‘A gut punch of a novel’ BOBBY PALMER
‘Thrillingly alive’ ANDREW McMILLAN
‘Everyone should read this’ JUSTIN MYERS
‘A storm of a novel’ LUCY ROSE
A powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path on the streets outside his door, from the acclaimed author of Good Intentions.
‘Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted’Sunday Times Style
‘Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive’ Daisy Buchanan
‘Mad Men meets White Lotus’Red
‘Stylish and twisting’ The Times
‘A wild ride and a heck of a lot of fun’ iNews
‘Impressive and unsettling’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ECONOMIST
‘Engrossing even as it horrifies’ BIG ISSUE
‘Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Impressive and unsettling’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ECONOMIST
‘Engrossing even as it horrifies’ BIG ISSUE
‘Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’LOS ANGELES TIMES
‘Impressive and unsettling’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ECONOMIST
‘Engrossing even as it horrifies’ BIG ISSUE
‘Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’LOS ANGELES TIMES
