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Striped Bug

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Clocks of Paris

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

The Land that Shivers by Ebele Ufondu: book review

Note: I received a free copy to independently review. The Land that Shivers (2019) is set in present day Nigeria.  The opening statements are defensive, immediately attempting to set the record straight on the international community’s claims of Nigeria as a corrupt nation.   Twenty-five-year-old Asa Adu has a university degree, graduating top of his class, but he has been out of work for four years. He is travelling with his father Samuel in an overcrowded bus when it has an accident.  After his father’s death, Asa must provide for his mother Caro and three sisters, 13-year-old Abigail, 11-year-old Tonia, and 8-year-old Julie. With no money – his father had not been paid his salary for the past eight months – there is little hope for their future.  Governor Azim is rich, powerful, and corrupt. Dora Adigun, the Petroleum Minister, is rich, powerful, and as corrupt as the Governor. She has just established an oil company, operated by Ben Atta...

Ground Thrush

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Sunday Walk: with pigeons

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

The two-toed sloth

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

White Clematis

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).