Author: Ben Okri

One of 2019's most anticipated novels in THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES and GUARDIAN. 'Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, an...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE FAMISHED ROADIn the chaotic world of his African city, the spirit child Azaro still watches the tumulto...

A Guardian Children's Book of the Year An environmental fairytale made for our times, written to be read by adults and children, from the Booker P...

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel...

Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject...

What do you do when your heart has been made a wasteland by love?Viv, who’s in the House of Lords, had the idea for the festival on the twentieth a...

An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. There is much to...

Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed…An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about the W...

'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' New Yorker 'An artist's ardent p...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE ‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’ The narrat...

Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and p...

To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all...

The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road.'A love story and an account of the conflict between the...

A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Gr...

'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' New Yorker 'An artist's ardent pl...

Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collecti...

‘One of the most beautiful and profound novels I’ve read in ages’ Washington Post‘A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave...

As one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri brings both poetry and story together, paring writing and image down to their essentials. This signif...

Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkne...

The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of ...

Selected as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an anci...

From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-make...