From Zamfara up country, to the Niger Delta down south, with a finale in Africa s most populous city, Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella are inspired by newspaper headlines and narrated by a range of Nigerian voices that are elevated to the realm of the sublime by Sefi Atta's distinctive, clinical narrative skill.

Citation from the Noma Award judges: This collection of short stories and a novella represent the work of a first class writer. The gripping stories of the Nigerian quotidian are of consistently high quality and uniformly outstanding. The writer has an immense gift of language and mastery of narrative in which she redefines the Nigerian social imaginary.

Winner of the first Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2006 for her début novel Everything Good Will Come, Sefi's skill with the short story form has always been evident. Twice shortlisted for the Caine Prize and a previous winner of the PEN International 2004/5 David T.K. Wong Prize, her stunning new collection, News From Home (first published as Lawless and other stories in Nigeria) won the prestigious Noma Award in 2009.

"...written with quiet virtuosity. Atta's control of tone is remarkable" – Teju Cole

"Sefi Atta is a brilliant artist... I have been very touched by the beauty and diversity and depth of these stories." – Uwem Akpan; author of Say You're One of Them (Oprah Bookclub Selection)

"...steady, quiet, and yet bold narrative voice... a story teller who is so in tune with the suffering and other life happenstances of her characters" – Mohammed Naseehu Ali; author of The Prophet of Zongo Street