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Regular price £10.99 Save £-10.99It all starts with a fire. Seven children, asleep in a big house in the Italian countryside. A forgotten candle. Their parents are not there. They are in a different country, a different continent, Africa, where other siblings are growing as part of the same family but in an entirely different life. Without their parents, the children feel dispersed, trying to keep hold of each other.
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A Quick Ting On: Grime
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Colours of Hatred
Regular price £9.99 Save £-9.99When in service of money and power, is love a deadly game of an eye for an eye?
In this politically charged thriller, Leona, an internationally renowned Sudanese-Nigerian model was in her youth asked by her father to marry Akinola, a billionaire and son of his rival and kill him afterwards, to avenge her mother.
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