The world's bestselling novelist is back with Secrets, a steamy novel chronicling the rise of a lingerie chain. Jerry Cooper of The Predators is back to launch his new empire of intimate women's apparel. He now has a son, Les Cooper, a streetwise young lawyer who slowly uncovers the family's mob involvement, a secret which Jerry has desperately tried to conceal until he finds himself in need of a lawyer. Combining the grit of his early work with the glamour of his later novels, Robbins once again provides readers with a pantheon of street-raised hustlers and anti-heroes who would use their hard-won knowledge to claw their way up the ladder of success.
After an exceptionally successful career as a butcher, Alaba, the protagonist of this play decides that he deserves a life of quiet retirement. Unfortunately beneath the rock on which he has chosen to make his abode are precious mineral deposits. Soon, both Alaba and the rock become a place of more than passing interest to everyone & ndash;from the lowly, to denizens of power. The outcome of this rollicking drama is more than anyone, least of all, Alaba himself, bargained for.Wole Soyinka's latest play, is a powerful satire of the idiosyncracies and excesses of ourcontemporary Nigeria society; the corruption of power; opportunism and cultural alienation.