Books like The beauty of madness and other stories by Adekunle Mamudu

A Highland romance with a dark past, where a widowed lady seeks justice and a man from the past must learn to let go...

Spud, a nearly fifteen‑year‑old boy, returns to his boarding school for a second year, where he navigates awkward puberty, new classmates, and chaotic adventures with his oddball dorm mates, including a cat named Roger.

"A wild, astonishing novel (by arguably England's most accomplished young writer) about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--and the Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit it for his own ends, unaware that the temple is a locus of conspiracies grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with insanity, conspiracy, ingenuity, and adventure, showcasing Beauman's anarchic humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in equal measure"--

A New York socialite embarks on a perilous journey to find true love and independence in a remote Nebraska town, challenging conventions and facing deadly obstacles along the way.

A collection of Anglophone Cameroonian short stories that explore women's everyday struggles and empowerment amid gender oppression, unemployment, and the allure of Western ideals in post‑colonial Cameroon.

A Viking widow, Sigrid, flees a raiding England by surrendering to a Saxon warrior, risking love and survival amid war.