The Beautiful Side of the Moon by Leye Adenle
ISBN 978-1-912563-01-2
eISBN 978-1-912563-02-9
Marking an exciting new departure by award-winning Nigerian author
Leye Adenle (Easy Motion Tourist, When Trouble Sleeps), The Beautiful
Side of the Moon raises an entirely unexpected and intriguing question –
what would happen if God went on holiday?
In order to get a better understanding of what it’s like to be human,
and to taste humanity’s joys and sorrows, God decides to have a hol￾iday as a human being. During the course of his time off, though, he
completely forgets that he’s God, which leads to some utterly unpre￾dictable outcomes…
A delightful, playful, thoughtful adventure in speculative fiction by one
of Nigeria’s most exciting new writers.

Leye is the winner of the first ever Prix Marianne in 2016, and is a Nigerian writer living
and working in London. His short story, ‘The Assassination’, in the anthology Sunshine Noir,
was a finalist for the 2017 CWA Short Story Dagger award. Leye comes from a family of
writers, the most famous of whom (to date) was his grandfather, Oba Adeleye Adenle I, a
former king of Oshogbo in South West Nigeria.