QuillstoneIndigo at Kofar MataHauwa Bello Danladi
Novel, 2026
Indigo at Kofar Mata
Hauwa Bello Danladi
Three generations of women at the old dye pits, a debt that will not stay buried, and a daughter who wants out.
N8,500
QuillstoneLetters in the Dry SeasonChidiebere Okoli
Catalogue / Essays
Letters in the Dry Season
Twenty essays written between November and March, on dust, distance, family and the north as home.
N7,000
The story
About the book
Written over one harmattan, these twenty essays move between Enugu and Kaduna, between a mother's kitchen and a borrowed flat, between the language of home and the language of the street. Funny, tender and sharp about what it means to choose a city.
Edited by the Quillstone editorial team over eighteen months, with a cover designed in our Barnawa studio. All books, authors and quotes on this site are invented for this demo.
- Format
- Paperback, sewn binding
- Pages
- 196
- Published
- March 2025
- Size
- 138 x 216 mm
- ISBN
- 978-000-196-25-0 (example)
- Price
- N7,000
From the first essay
Dust arrives in Kaduna the way relatives arrive in December: all at once, without warning, and determined to stay until the end of February. I learned to keep a cloth by the window and a smile by the door.
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In the reading room
Readers on this book
I read it in two sittings and then made my sister read it so I had someone to talk to.
Quiet, precise and devastating in the last forty pages.
Questions
About this edition
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