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Books selected by Book Cast Ng to spark discovery, reflection and conversation.

Week of 2 November 2026

No Longer at Ease

by Chinua Achebe

Achebe follows Obi Okonkwo, a promising young Nigerian educated in England, as he returns home full of ideals — and watches those ideals erode under the weight of family expectation, money and love. Quiet, devastating and still urgently relevant sixty years on.