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01/01/2025

The Great Year of Achievements is here.
Don't just go it alone, at Phalanx Books we create our achievements together, to

07/09/2024

On the 3rd September, 2024, Hon. Shadrach Fanan Agyaku, the Publisher and Managing Editor of was announced the winner of the James Currey prize for African Literature, 2024. We at Phalanx Books Makurdi celebrate this great milestone by one of our own, and also appreciate the James Currey Society for finding one of our staff worthy of this prestigious prize and recognition.
Cheers.

17/06/2024

31/05/2023

Former Ghanaian Secretary of Education and renowned author-playwright, Professor Ama Ata Aidoo dies at 81. Her influence in the literary world in Africa will continue to be felt. Rest in Peace

24/01/2023

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
John Stuart Mill

21/01/2023

Did you know?

Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species", first published in 1859, has been called the biggest single idea in the history of thought.

10/01/2023

"Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good."
Niccolo Machiavelli

20/12/2022

Another arrival on the Phalanx Books shelf.

Waves of Pain

A novel by

Iveren Beatrice Damna

21/10/2022

Medical Sociology: A comprehensive Introduction.
By
Emmanuel D. Bojoh

Now out for distribution

08/09/2022

We at join the rest of the world to mourn the death of the Monarch of United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II, whose passing occurred on this day, Thursday, 8th September, 2022. Queen Elizabeth was crowned at the young age of 26 and has ruled the Kingdom for 70 eventful years. She died aged 96. May her gentle soul rest in peace.

09/08/2022

✍️6 Tips To Stretch Your Fiction from Chris Bohjalian
1⃣️Don’t merely write what you know. Write what you don’t know. It might be more difficult at first, but it will also be more interesting.
2⃣️Do some research. Good fiction is rich with minutiae – what people wore, how they cooked, how they filled the mattresses on which they slept – and often the details you discover will help you dramatically with your narrative.
3⃣️Interview someone who knows something about your topic. Fiction may be a solitary business when you’re actually writing, but prior to sitting down with your computer (or pencil or pen), it often demands getting out into the real world and learning how (for instance) an ob-gyn spends her day, or what a lawyer does when he isn’t in the courtroom, or exactly what it feels like to a farmer to milk a cow when he’s been doing it for 35 years. Ask questions. . .and listen.
4⃣️Interview someone else. Anyone else. Ask questions that are absolutely none of your business about their childhood, their marriage, their s*x life. They don’t have to be interesting (though it helps). They don’t even have to be honest.
5⃣️Read some fiction you wouldn’t normally read: A translation of a Czech novel, a mystery, a book you heard someone in authority dismiss as ‘genre fiction’.
6⃣️Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine…and then make them plausible.

09/08/2022

29/07/2022

Did you know?

20/07/2022

This day in History

July 20, 1969, the world witnessed one of the singular most important achievements in history - humans walking on the moon. Neil, Michael and I were proud to represent America as we took those giant leaps for mankind. It was a brilliant moment for the world and one of America’s finest hours.

19/07/2022

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
-Greek Proverb