Alot has changed in the writing styles over the years compared to the ancient storylines.
Several authors have long bagged awards for their creative writing skills and delivered superb interface with the readers and told prolific experiences through books.
However, with the changes in technology where people get to have first hand information direct on their fingertips, many have drifted away from the good old golden days of writings and reading and would rather sit for 15mins Infront of a giant screen and get notched information.
Gone are the days of great authors such as the Nigerian Wole Soyinka, Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Uganda’s Okot p’Bitek, Charles Dickens, Ben Carson among the rest.
Today we recommend you some of those good’s books that flipping a page would incorporate you into hundreds of pages and leave you yearning for more for locally and internationally.
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Earnest Hemingway
Earnest, an American novelist tells a fiction troublesome story of a frustrated aged man “Santiago” who heads to the sea for a final catch. He luckily nets a shark that towes his boad into the wilderness of the sea. He get stuck in the stomach of the sea without sight of any living creature. The old man tries to survive the angry sharks and storms to try and find his way home.
The novel was published way back in 1952 written between December and February 1951.
A FAMILY OF HER OWN by Brenda Novak.
Brenda, an American romance author with over 50 books delivers her historical romantic story with contemporary and suspense punchlines.
When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it’s not because she wants to. It’s because she’s disillusioned, broke—and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she’s paying a high price for trusting the wrong man.
Booker Robinson is the man she didn’t trust, the man she’d left behind in Dundee…and the first person she sees when she comes back. But despite Booker’s notorious past, he now has a successful business and a home of his own.
IS THAT REALLY YOU GOD? By Lorren Cunnigham.
Loren Duane Cunningham, an American missionary who by the age of 24 had already founded YWAM in Switzerland by 1960 and a founder of the international missionary organization youth.
Chuck Colson shakes the church from its complacency with a penetrating look at the cost of being Christian in every day life while trying to filter God’s voice and his inner voice. For those who have wondered wheter there isn’t more to Christianity than what they have known — and for those who have never considered the question. Loving God points the way to faith’s cutting edge. Here is a compelling, probing look at the cost of discipleship and the meaning of the first and greatest commandment — one that will strum a deeper, truer chord within even as it strips away the trappings of shallow, cultural Christianity.
THE HAUNTING OF THE HILL HOUSE by Shirly Jackson.
This is one of the award wining gothic books you wouldn’t throw out of your bookshelves if you fancy ghost books. Shirly Jackson’s 1959 gothic horror novel reached the finalist of the National Book Award that has now been translated into films and plays.
A family moves into an ancient, abandoned country house full of excitement and expectations. This is however short-lived when unknown events start unfolding to the new residents. It is Eleanor’s discomfort within the house and her deteriorating mental state that makes Hill House so horrifying. She begins questioning what is happening inside the house, apparently seeing and hearing things the others are not, and she drags us along for all of it.
TESTIMONY OF A HOSPIABLE NATION By Irene Ageno Julu.
A dramatic and a play writer Ageno uncovers a satire that revolves around a middle-aged educated ambitious kiosk owner and his dreams in a middle-income economy. This 6-year-old book published in 2018 will leave you absolutely awed with the eloquence and interface crated by the author. IRENE AGENO JULU. The main character Mukasa through his unique chapatti kiosk ‘Fork and Spoon’ located in a suburb in Kampala, Uganda surprises the community with his leadership skills. Despite the struggles, Mukasa is shocked by the hospitality of the people that surrounds him and refers to it as indescribable hospitality and a big family. The author is not only a witty playwright but a journalist and economist who has managed to use her skills to bring out one of the key problems which is unemployment and responds to it by self employment which we clearly witness at ‘Fork and Spoon’.
THE FASCINATING STORY OF KIBHEO By Ruzindaza Casimir.
Casmir throws in-depth highlights on one of the mysterious happening in the Southern Part of Rwanda that culminated into the current global pilgrimage place.
The book is an experiential story of how the blessed Mary Mother of Jesus appeared to three young college girls that later transformed the entire story of Kibheo, a little-known ancient village in former Butare before the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.
This is the story of the apparitions of Mary at Kibeho in Rwanda on the Saturday 28th November 1981 up to 28th November 1989. Officially she appeared to three school girls: Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka and lastly Marie Claire Mukangango. In her message, she was calling the whole world to repentance and conversion. In a prophetic way, she pointed out man’s ongoing self alienation and enslavement from within.
MISTER PIP By Lyod Jones
If you are a fan of Australia of island life and survival in the medieval era, this should be one of the best book we recommend to you. Jones tell of an escape tale through brutal colonialism to the modernization life into distinct romance.
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