PTH:

i'm not sure that was "wages of sin". I think the main figure in the book was a randy man who went about sleeping with women around town until nemesis caught up with him.

The Wages of Sin is definitely the title of the book I described (though I do not know the name of the author so I cannot confirm if it is Ibe Oparandu).

i cant remember much of the stories anymore lol
i used to have a whole library of them but. . . time is a thief of memories.

Pacesseter novels and African Writers series. Now, those ones are also classics, and it is unfortunate that the series is no longer being published. I think those series actually gave some publicity to African writers. Now is there an umbrella that all African writers, the new generation could publish, so that their works can be classifed as African literary pieces?

SMC:

I used to love Pacesetters when I was a wee lass.

The Delinquent, The Undesirable Element, Sis, Too Cold for Comfort, Sweet Revenge, Love on the Rocks, Bloodbath at Lobster Close, The Cyclist, For Mbata and Rebecca (I hope I got the spelling right), e.t.c.

I could go on and on. Who can remember the title of the pacesetter where the guy had a girlfriend. He went abroad i think and she was promiscuous and kept sleeping around. When he came back he wanted to marry her despite people telling him of her infidelity. To cut a long story short, they went sightseeing somewhere in igboland and inside the cave the girl disappeared to shag another guy, so the protagonist dumped her. By the time the she had been through the mill and came back to beg him, he was already married and his wife was preganant.

If you remember this book, please post the title on this thread.

my favourite was Evbu my love. there was one about two brothers, i think they could fight. i can't really remember the name or the storyline. but anyone who has an idea should please say it.

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SMC:

The Wages of Sin is definitely the title of the book I described (though I do not know the name of the author so I cannot confirm if it is Ibe Oparandu).

You're very right, the book i was confusing it with was "death is a woman" by Dickson Igbavini! Classic!

"On the road" by Kalu Okpi was a bomb! that guy could write. Coup by the same author was also very good. I think he was the best of the lot. Phillip Phil-Ebosie was another very interesting pacesetter author.

As a child i had a very active imagination, after reading "sweet revenge" i thought of carving my own gun and pulling off my own bank heist, thank God i did not have the requisite carving skill.

I also loved "tell me no more" i remember the book was so captivating and i could not drop it, i was reading in under my desk while my English teacher was delivering his lecture. he noticed i was not paying attention and on close examination he discovered what i was doing, he promptly seized the book. when i tried begging him to return the book after the lecture he harshly told me "tell me no more" to give you this book. he eventually returned it after about 4 weeks when i caught him reading it in the staff room.

If you can recall the storyline in "The Cyclist", the bicycle repairer told his wife to enter the room and prepare for conjugal activity when he learnt that the woman's 1st husband had just returned from the Biafra war. back in those days that part of the story seemed like full blown pornography. i remember visiting that particular page several times afterwards. ( i was under 10 yrs at the time). i used to get a kick by just reading that portion over and over again.

i can go on and on about the funny experiences i had with each of those books.

pacesetter, back in primary school,if u weren't reading those then u weren't "in".

has anyone bought any books off the website that was recommended? i need to know fast, as i have a huge list of books i want to order! this thread brought back too many memories. i spent all my pocket money on novels when i was in school. i need to build up my long lost collection once again.

At the last Nigerian International Book fair, the books were on display and i realise that they are still available. They requested that i should write some stories for them but i had to decline because i wouldn't have the time.

This may however be an opportunity for those may want to approach Macmillan with their manuscripts. Who knows,

I must have read all the Pacesetters novels that were available then. I had most of them but I have no idea where they are now. I can't remember most of the story lines except Love on the rocks. I read it many times over.

I also was a BIG fan of the Pace-setters novels - just wondering if Nollywood ever thoght of using Pace-setters novels as a movie script.

i loved loved pace setters that was what brought me into the world of romance novels, after my lady bird & Enid blyton series,

When i first read 'Undesireable element' i thought that was the bomb until i started reading others, "ebvu my love", "rich girl poor boy" e.t.c i read a whole lot of them until i stopped seeing them, i even re-read some. very delicious. i loved the African setting, i loved d modesty in d ladies & men in those books. Its a real scary movie to what we have now.

yeah really good one here.i remember them very well.the cyclists,evbu my love etc.i wonder if they are still in the markest.

awww, thanks for bringing back the golden memories of my time in naija. I beg who didnt read pacesetter series? That was when reading culture was in naija, when you see a primary school kid reading a novel with more than 200 pages. OMG our reading culture has dramatically gone down the rail! I remember when i first read "The Undesirable Elements" i couldnt stop reading it! How I wish naija could be like it was b4!

Why cant the Nollywood use pacesetter series to do their movies instead of the useless storyline they re now using?

halo nnenna, if this is u kindly write me back, u attended bonny camp pry school with me, and ur friend saviour. anyhow if this is the nnenna we are looking for, it will be great 2 reunite with us again. reply me at themba.okoye@gmail.com

the pacesetter series were definitely IT!!!! this thread has brot back some good old memories, if they r really in the market, then am surely back in,

Mark of the Cobra. On the Road.
I cant even remember the other pacesetter books I read but I know they were definately interesting.

too cold for comfort
evbu my love etc ooooooooooooooooh good old days.from MacMillan readers to pacesetters

Uhh, Pacesetters! I remember the books with amazing fondness! Tho i can hardly remember most of the story lines, i recall such titles as 'Love on the rock' ( I remember taking dat title literally at some point) 'The Cyclist', 'Undesirable element'( my fav), 'Sacrificial Child'(hope i got dat right), Sisi, Too cold for comfort, Obsessed (spooked me like crazy) the Director and several more i can't recollect.
Those books flagged up my appetite for reading and right down to this day, I'm an ardent reader of a variety of good books.

lami4life:

Uhh, Pacesetters! I remember the books with amazing fondness! Tho i can hardly remember most of the story lines, i recall such titles as 'Love on the rock' ( I remember taking that title literally at some point) 'The Cyclist', 'Undesirable element'( my fav), 'Sacrificial Child'(hope i got that right), Sisi, Too cold for comfort, Obsessed (spooked me like crazy) the Director and several more i can't recollect.
Those books flagged up my appetite for reading and right down to this day, I'm an ardent reader of a variety of good books.

Ooops! I meant 'Possessed' and not 'Obsessed'. What was i thinking?

Yes O! i remember the first i read was Sisi, then Evbu my love, Bloodbath at lobsters close, the cyclist, Felicia, Too cold for comfort, christmas in the city, mark of cobra, on the road, tell me no more, agony in her voice, the worshippers, money doublers, stop press: murder, for Mbatha and Rebecca, rich girl poor boy, wages of sin and the list goes on and on, i had so many of them,

hell to the yeah!! remember secondary schl days when i was addicted literarily to pacesetters and i can confidently say i v read all the pacesetters published, remember a funny incident when i was reading in class and this funny classmate of mine then dapo tapped me while i was reading and i jumped up,grabbed a stick i found and chased him outside lol lmao

Can't forget them ever!

Evbu my love
The hopeful lovers
Sisi
For Mbatha and Rabecca
Bloodbath at lobster close
Undesirable element
The delinquent
Felicia
Too cold for comfort
Synphony of destruction
Too young to die
Agony in her voice
Meet me in Conakry
The smugglers
The betrayer
The cyclists
Christmas in the city
Coup
Director
Equitorial assignment. . .

Read too many of 'em! Still have many of them stacked somewhere in my house in naija!

oh my God! I remember those books. . .my favs in no particular order
Evbu My love,
Sisi
Too Cold for Comfort
Bloodbath at Lobster(sp) close.
Time Changes Yesterday

Gah! I'd so love to get my hands on those books again.

@Candy
May the Lord bless your might heart!!!

Thanks for the list.

Sisikill:

@Candy
May the Lord bless your might heart!!

AMEN! ! !

I loved Pacesetters. Bloodbath at Lobster's Close- I read it for that fantastic title and had a fantastic time! My favourite Pacecesetter author was Victor Thorpe. His books were funny as hell and terribly imaginative, with a motor-mouth,one-legged journalist getting into all sorts of otherworldly wahala. He wrote The Instrument and The Worshippers.The only one I didn't like was The Cyclist.Hated the ending. But there's so much innocence in those books, they're such a wonderful series and the stories were so marvelous.There's even a sort of James Bond in the series, some black South African guy who pursues baddies all over the globe.

In all I have read:

Agony In Her Voice
Angel Of Death
The Betrayer
The Black Temple
Blackmailers
Stranger’s Son
Tell Me No More
Stone Vengeance
Stop Press: Murder!
Too cold for Comfort
The Undesirable Element
Vicious Circle
Wages Of Sin
The Worshippers
Cross-Fire
The Cyclist
Death Is Woman
The Delinquent
The Equatorial Assignment
Bloodbath At Lobster Close†
Christmas In The City
Evbu My Love
The Extortionist
Director!
Double Trouble
Felicia
For Better For Worse
For Mbatha And Rabeka
A Fresh Start
Hopeful Lovers*
The Instrument
Love On The Rocks
Mark Of The Cobra
On The Road
Possessed!
Race Against Rats
Rich Girl, Poor Boy
Sisi
The Smugglers
State Secret

Why did they let this amazing series die?

OMG, I remeber those pacesetter novels, use to go crazy reading them,

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