Location: Nigeria
Member Since:
Sep. 12, 2020
Kingsley Adrian Banks
Biography
Kingsley Adrian Banks is an independent writer and publisher. He is a Nigerian author of contemporary gay fiction featuring LGBTQ characters, erotic literature, contemporary fiction, women's fiction and thriller. He is best known for his debut novel, Behind Closed Doors, an LGBT-themed Novel set in Lagos Nigeria in the late Nineties and one of the very few books in Nigeria that explore same-sex sexual relationships and gender non-conformity. He is also the author of the books in the Women of Eternity Series and some standalone short fiction.
Kingsley Adrian Banks was born on April 3, 1993, in Onitsha, Nigeria. He is the third of four children and he spent his growing up years in Onitsha.
In 2008, at the age of fifteen, he graduated from High School and took the Nigerian Joint Admissions And Matriculation Board exams the following year from where he gained admission to the university to study Law. He undertook his undergraduate studies, graduated with Honors, then was later called as a lawyer to the Nigerian Bar at the age of 22.
Banks started writing as a teenager aged 14, working on manuscripts long hand in secret. He still has several of those hand-written manuscripts lying around.
Banks' first novel, Behind Closed Doors was self-published in May, 2020 to critical applause from the LGBTQ community in Nigeria who had largely positive feedback for the novel. After that Banks published the first book in his Women of Eternity Series, titled Adamma, in 2021. The book became a bestseller on Bambooks. Other novels from that series are queued for publication.
When not writing, Banks works as a lawyer for his clients and also spends time reading, working out, and blogging, while also learning about digital media and finance.
Kingsley Adrian Banks was born on April 3, 1993, in Onitsha, Nigeria. He is the third of four children and he spent his growing up years in Onitsha.
In 2008, at the age of fifteen, he graduated from High School and took the Nigerian Joint Admissions And Matriculation Board exams the following year from where he gained admission to the university to study Law. He undertook his undergraduate studies, graduated with Honors, then was later called as a lawyer to the Nigerian Bar at the age of 22.
Banks started writing as a teenager aged 14, working on manuscripts long hand in secret. He still has several of those hand-written manuscripts lying around.
Banks' first novel, Behind Closed Doors was self-published in May, 2020 to critical applause from the LGBTQ community in Nigeria who had largely positive feedback for the novel. After that Banks published the first book in his Women of Eternity Series, titled Adamma, in 2021. The book became a bestseller on Bambooks. Other novels from that series are queued for publication.
When not writing, Banks works as a lawyer for his clients and also spends time reading, working out, and blogging, while also learning about digital media and finance.
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Where to find Kingsley Adrian Banks online
Facebook: Facebook profile
Wattpad: KingsleyAdrianBanks
Blog: https://www.adrianbanksbooks.wordpress.com
Wattpad: KingsleyAdrianBanks
Blog: https://www.adrianbanksbooks.wordpress.com
Where to buy in print
Series
Women of Eternity
by Kingsley Adrian Banks
Adamma
Forbidden Woman
The Women of Eternity Series are a series of books involving a character named Adamma. It is the shocking, spellbinding story of Adamma, who, having lost everything her family had at a young age, hits the clubs as a stripper and prostitute. From there she hits the major leagues as a famed musician. At the height of her success, ghosts from her past start making a re-entry into her life, each one with a devastating effect. Hers is a chilling story, of love, survival, family, and ultimately, deaths.
Adamma
Price:
Free!
Forbidden Woman
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Books
Forbidden Woman
by Kingsley Adrian Banks
Series: Women of Eternity.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 148,750.
Language:
Simple English.
Published: December 12, 2022
.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » General, Fiction » Romance » General
Bestselling author Kingsley Adrian Banks picks up where his literary hit, Adamma, left off, continuing the story and characters from the earlier novel. In Forbidden Woman, Banks evokes a compelling portrayal of Adamma and her fight against a terrifying destiny, which threatens to keep her away from everyone she has ever loved.
Adamma
by Kingsley Adrian Banks
Series: Women of Eternity.
Price:
Free!
Words: 125,190.
Language:
English.
Published: December 12, 2021
.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » General, Fiction » Romance » General
Adamma is one of the biggest musicians of her time. She has fame, money and beauty. She also has a deadly past, one that rears up its head when she least expects it. She also has ghosts from this past life, and these ghosts are ready to turn up and haunt her when she least expects it.
Behind Closed Doors
by Kingsley Adrian Banks
Price:
Free!
Words: 86,130.
Language:
English.
Published: November 2, 2020
.
Categories:
Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General, Fiction » Romance » Erotic
Henry Johnson faces a stunning controversy about who he is. He thinks of men and loves men, but the thought thrills him as well as sickens him with disgust. He is terrified of what it would mean to be termed gay, privileged as he is. Phoenix has scraped his entire life and will do anything to rise socially. The lives of these two intersect...explosively when they come together.
Rituals
by Kingsley Adrian Banks
Price:
Free!
Words: 12,150.
Language:
Commonwealth English.
Published: September 13, 2020
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Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
Fidelia is a happily married woman, and her life is perfect...or so she thinks. That perfect life is about to turn into a gruesome nightmare, for her only child suddenly disappears from school. Nothing has prepared Fidelia for such an ordeal. She is struck with fear: that her daughter is in the hands of murderers and has suffered a terrible fate.