Jacaranda Books 2018 Catalogue

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War to Windrush

Thinner Than Skin Uzma Aslam Khan

Stephen Bourne

ISBN: 978-1-909762-67-1 eISBN: : 978-1-909762-68-8 April 2018 Literary fiction Binding: Royal paperback Extent: 384pp Price: £16.99 Rights: UK, Ireland, and Commonwealth excluding Canada and Indian subcontinent

ISBN: 978-1-909762-85-5 June 2018 Nonfiction, illustrated Binding: Special format Extent: 192pp Price: £12.99 Rights: World

‘Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer.’ - Mohsin Hamid (Author of ‘Moth Smoke’ and ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’) Uzma Aslam Khan coming to the UK May-June 2018 Thinner Than Skin is a novel that explores forgiveness, transgressions, memory, and acceptance. The story follows a young Pakistani photographer and his American born Pakistani-German lover as they travel from California to Pakistan in an attempt to exorcize their pasts in order to build their shared future. A tragedy at a mountain lake entwines the fates of the two lovers with the people they encounter there, sending all involved on a path of reckoning with their own existences. An expansive look at the intersection of cultures and what happens at those intersections, Thinner Than Skin is a powerful and moving read.

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UZMA ASLAM KHAN was born in Lahore and grew up in Karachi, but has spent much time living in various places around the world. She currently lives in western Massachusetts. Her works have received many accolades, such as a 2003 Commonwealth Prize nomination for her novel Trespassing as well as a placement for her novel The Geometry of God on the Kirkus Review’s Best Books of 2009 list. The Geometry of God also won the Bronze award at the Independent Book Publishers Awards and Thinner Than Skin was nominated for the Man Asian literary prize. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Counterpunch, Drawbridge, Dawn, Herald, among other anthologies and journals.

War to Windrush is a nonfiction book that exposes the lives of black British women during the period spanning from the beginning of World War II to the arrival of the Empire Windrush. In those short years, black British women performed integral roles in keeping the country functioning and set the stage for the arrival of other black Britons on the MV Empire Windrush. The book shows first-hand what life was like in Britain for black women through photography and evocative prose. Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, War to Windrush is a fascinating read that deepens the narrative about how Britain came to be.

STEPHEN BOURNE has specialised in black British histories since 1991. He has written over 15 books, including the acclaimed Black in the British Frame, Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music and The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen and Women 1939-1945. Stephen received the 2015 Southwark Arts Forum Award for Literature for Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and the Great War. He is a regular contributor to BBC documentaries and has written for many publications, including The Voice, The Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today.

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A Book of Secrets

Murder Under the Palms:

Kate Morrison

A Preddy and Harris Investigation Paula Lennon

ISBN: 9781909762695 eISBN: 9781909762701 September 2018 Historical Fiction Binding: Royal hardback Extent: 350pp Price: £16.99 Rights: World

ISBN: 9781909762862 eISBN: 9781909762879 JUNE 2018 Crime, Mystery Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 300pp Price: £8.99 Rights: World

Praise for Murder in Montego Bay ​“A veritable blockbuster of a crime novel!” Peter Kalu, author of Yard Dogs

system heading for chaos, can Preddy identify the murderer and bring his beloved city back from the brink?

​ ook 2 in the n​ew detective series set in the picturesque B Caribbean island of Jamaica, as featured in the Sunday Times Crime Club and The Bookseller

You can find the first Preddy and Harris Investigation, Murder In Montego Bay, on page 18!

MONTEGO BAY: An illustrious career on the criminal bench has created no shortage of enemies for Jamaican Supreme Court Judge Everton Wrenn.

When the judge is found murdered at his seafront villa the investigation falls into the hands of intrepid Detective Raythan Preddy. The return from Glasgow of Detective Sean Harris means that Preddy - while needing the assistance - cannot afford to drop his guard.

As the Pelican Walk officers narrow down their list of suspects a gun goes missing from police custody resulting in the death of a man who is either a prime suspect or a potential witness. With the judiciary threatening an island wide strike and the court

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PAULA LENNON was born in England to Jamaican parents, the sixth child and only girl amongst five boys. She lived in Jamaica during her teens and attended college in Chapelton, Clarendon.

Back in England, Paula worked for many years as a commercial lawyer in London, before deciding to live where the weather was more conducive to smiling. She currently resides in Jamaica, where she is always actively plotting, writing, and admiring the Caribbean Sea. Murder in Montego Bay is her first novel.

A Book of Secrets is the story of a woman named Susan Charlewood living in Elizabethan England. Born in what is now Ghana, Susan was enslaved by the Portuguese and rescued by British sailors, who then brought her to England. Once in England, she was raised and educated in an English Catholic household. When she came of age, the family married her off to an older Catholic man, John Charlewood.

Charlewood ran a printing press and used it to supply the Papist nobility with illegal Catholic texts and foment rebellion amongst the Catholic underclass. When Charlewood dies, Susan takes over the business and uses her new position to find out more about her origins. A look at racial relationships on the eve of the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, A Book of Secrets is a revealing and compelling glimpse into a fraught time.

KATE MORRISON was born in England and studied English Literature at New Hall College, Cambridge.

She currently lives in Bristol and worked as a journalist and a press officer. She was a visiting scholar with the Book, Text, and Place 1500-1700 Research Centre at Bath Spa University. Her short story “Sam Brown” won second prize in the 2011 Asham Award and is in the Asham Award Anthology, Something was There.

A Book of Secrets was longlisted for the Mslexia Unpublished Novel Award in 2015.

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Praise Song for the Butterflies

A Girl Called Eel Ali Zamir Translation by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

Bernice L. McFadden

ISBN: 9781909762817 eISBN: 9781909762824 November 2018 Literary Fiction Binding: Demy paperback wiith flaps Extent: TBC Price: £8.99 Rights: UK Commonwealth and Europe excluding Canada

ISBN: 9781909762886 eISBN: 9781909762893 October 2018 Contemporary Fiction Binding: Hardcover Extent: 264 Price: £18.99 Rights: UK, Commonwealth, Europe, Middle East

“Abeo is unrelenting—a fiery protagonist who sparks in every scene. Bernice L. McFadden has created yet another compelling story, this time about hope and freedom.”—Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun Abebe Tsikata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine- year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Tsikatas’ idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abebe’s father, following his mother’s advice, places her in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as religious atonement for the crimes of his ancestors.

Unspeakable acts befall Abebe for the fifteen years she is enslaved within the shrine. When she is finally rescued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past, endure the revelation of family secrets, and learn to trust and love again.

practice of ritual servitude in West Africa. Spanning decades and two continents, Praise Song for the Butterflies will break and heal your heart.

BERNICE L. MCFADDEN is an African-American award-winning author of ten critically acclaimed novels including The Book of Harlan, Sugar, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), and Glorious.

The Book of Harlan (2016) won the American National Book Award and an NAACP Image award, and has been optioned for a movie deal by Mark Tonderai of Shona Films.

A Girl Called Eel is the story of a young girl adrift in the ocean. Eel is 17-years-old, and when she is cast out from her home, she runs to the ocean to await her impending death. To commemorate her life, she relieves her memories, with the urgency of her tale forcing her to tell her story all in one breath, without any full stops. The story of her life involves her father Know-It-All, her sister Rattlesnake, and the mysterious shipwreck survivor Avid and their lives on the island of Anjouan. A story told in a single sentence, A Girl Called Eel is a memorial, a reckoning, and a powerful read.

ALI ZAMIR was born on Anjouan in the Comoros.

He studied French Literature at the University of Cairo and attained his Master’s degree from there in 2010. He has since returned to Anjouan where he has been the Director of Culture and Cooperative Activities for the island since 2014. A Girl Called Eel is his first novel.

McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.

In the tradition of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee, Praise Song for the Butterflies is a contemporary story that offers an educational, eye-opening account of the

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHAOLIN

BEST SELLERS AND AWARD WINNERS 978-1-909762-29-9 £8.99

CYRUS BOZORGMEHR

978-1-909762-31-2 £7.99

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ISBN: 978-1-909762-65-7 eISBN: 978-1-909762-66-4 NOVEMBER 2017 Music, Business Binding: Demy-format paperback Extent: 284 pp Price: £12.99 Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada

‘An epic battle between colourful, creative maniacal heroes and one of the blandest beta-villains of our time.

Couldn’t put it down.’ Patton Oswalt, comedian and bestselling author of Silver Screen Fiend

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978-1-909762-43-5 £9.99

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978-1-909762-22-0 £8.99

Take a kid with a dream. A legendary hip hop group.

Six years of secret recordings. A casing worthy of a king. A single artifact. Hallowed establishment institutions. An iconoclastic auction house. The world’s foremost museum of modern art. A bidding war. Endless crises of conscience. An angry mob.

A furious beef. A sale. A villain of Lex Luther like proportions. Bill Murray. The FBI. The internet gone wild.

The book documents this story through the eyes of the project’s senior adviser, Cyrus Bozorgmehr, and offers an insight into one of the most popular hip-hop bands in music history while addressing head-on the dramatic devaluation of music in the eyes of the modern consumer.

CYRUS BOZORGMEHR is a creative consultant.

He was the senior adviser to the Once upon a Time in Shaolin project and worked alongside Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and producer Cilvaringz. He lives in Marrakech, Morocco.

Once upon a Time in Shaolin was an extraordinary experiment in music history. The album took six years in the making, culminating in a single, exquisitely packaged, double-CD that would find itself, through auction, in the hands of the Martin Shkrel, the American investor and pharmaceutical tycoon who the US media coined as America’s “most hated man”.

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SEVEN STONES

The Impossible Five:

VÉNUS KHOURY-GHATA

In Search of South Africa’s Most Elusive Animals

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

Justin Fox ISBN: 978-1-909762-63-3 eISBN: 978-1-909762-64-0 NOVEMBER 2017 Literary fiction Binding: B-format paperback, French flaps Extent: 171 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: World English

Shortlisted for the 2007 Renaudot and Femina prizes.

In Khouf, a city on the windswept fringes of the Sahel desert, a woman named Noor has been sentenced to death for adultery. To the religious authorities, it makes no difference that she was actually raped. The stones that will wash away the family’s dishonour in blood are ready in a pile in the village square. Only forty days to go. Confronted with Noor’s resignation at her misguided fate, a French charity worker whose own life has begun to unravel, decides to take on Noor’s plight and fights to have the fatwa reversed, creating a powerful bond between the two women, one that transcends culture and religion.

Without judgement, Venus Khoury-Ghata reveals the complexity of a culture in which it seems a woman must only accept her fate no matter how tragic or unjust. One courageous woman is determined to defy this idea at all costs.

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ISBN: 978-1-909762-55-8 eISBN: 978-1-909762-56-5 OCTOBER 2017 Travel writing Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 192 pp Price: £9.99 Rights: World, excl. South Africa

VÉNUS KHOURY-GHATA is a poet and a novelist.

She was born in Lebanon in 1937 and has lived in Paris since 1972. Considered a major voice in France’s contemporary literature, she has published a dozen novels and has many collections of poems.

She has been awarded, inter alia, the Prix Goncourt for Poetry and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Française.

A fresh and humorous take on the traditional African safari.

Visiting Africa’s game reserves is often all about spotting ‘The Big Five’, the five most dangerous animals on the continent – the Lion, the Leopard, the Elephant, the Rhino and the Buffalo. But what about those animals you have almost zero chance of seeing? Justin Fox draws up a list of the most elusive animals and sets off to find ‘The Impossible Five’ – the Cape Mountain Leopard, the Aardvark, the Pangolin, the Riverine Rabbit and the Naturally Occurring White Lion.

In a humorous, original, off-beat adventure story, Justin travels around Africa in search of these forgotten animals. Along the way he meets some very weird characters, and other absurd mammals.

Travel writer, novelist and photographer JUSTIN FOX was editor of Getaway International magazine.

Fox was a Rhodes Scholar and received a doctorate in English from Brasenose College, Oxford University. He was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town, where he now teaches part time.

Fox’s writing and photographs have been published worldwide and he is the author of over a dozen books. He is a two-time Mondi journalism award winner and his articles have appeared internationally in a wide range of publications, while his short stories and poems have been published in various anthologies. His book Whoever Fears the Sea was longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize and The Marginal Safari was longlisted for the 2011 Alan Paton and 2012 Olive Schreiner awards.

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OF MURDER, MUSES AND ME

TATY WENT WEST NIKHIL SINGH

CLAUDIA CHIBICI-REVNEANU

ISBN: 978-1-909762-61-9 eISBN: 978-1-909762-62-6 OCTOBER 2017 Literary Nonsense, illustrated Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 416 pp Price: £9.99 Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl Canada, Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda

ISBN: 978-1-909762-39-8 eISBN: 978-1-909762-40-4 SEPTEMBER 2017 Crime, literary fiction Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 280 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: World

‘A hallucinogenic post-apocalyptic carnival ride – Nikhil Singh has a strange and intriguing mind.’

Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City Travellers called the Zone ‘the Land of Strangers’: the place where anyone could escape anything, and where the lost things lay.

Taty is a troubled adolescent living with her equally troubled mother in the suburbs of the Lowlands. In a moment of uncontrolled anger she finds her life changed forever and, hiding a terrible secret, she runs away, heading West into the Outzone.

It is clear that this is no ordinary story when she is captured by a malicious imp, befriended by an evangelising robotic nun and wooed by a transgender hoodlum, leading her further down the rabbit hole.

Navigating the collapse of an already chaotic society, Taty struggles against present danger while confronting the demons of her own past.

With moustachioed wrestlers, marauding Buddhist Punks, a feline voodoo surgeon and the presence

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of the enigmatic, disfigured Dr. Dali, Taty takes on a highly unique universe and emerges as a heroine whose petulant nonchalance hides a mighty spirit.

NIKHIL SINGH is a Cape Town based artist, writer, musician and film-maker. He has fronted the critically acclaimed South African art-rock bands The Wild Eyes and Hi Spider, as well as releasing a plethora of solo albums under the moniker ‘Witchboy’.

He has illustrated the graphic novels The Ziggurat (Bell-Roberts 2003) by The Constructus Corporation (now Die Antwoord) and Salem Brownstone with writer John Harris Dunning. Taty Went West is his first novel.

Quirky crime for fans of Colin Bateman’s ‘Mystery Man’ series

Of Murder, Muses and Me is a sharp and witty debut by a promising talent.

‘Delightful’ Lois Lavrisa, author of Homicide by Hamlet

CLAUDIA CHIBICI-REVNEANU is a geographically confused Austrian, who currently works as a lecturer at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in León, Mexico.

When bestselling author Mark Drubenheimer is found dead in his studio, Rosalind Waterloo’s world collapses. The official story is that the author committed suicide, but for his devoted fan, there is only one explanation: Drubenheimer was murdered, and Rosalind is the only person who can expose the killer.

She has published poems, literary essays, translations and academic articles in different international magazines such as Celeste, Schreibkraft, olasciviles and The International Journal of Cultural Policy Studies. In 2000, she won the Austrian award for women writers, Minna Kautsky.

The young woman takes her investigation to London and to the heart of the publishing industry where she encounters an intriguing cast of characters; an eccentric editor, a modest muse, a wounded widow and a mesmerising mystery man.

With her sanity now in question, Rosalind is even more determined to uncover the truth behind Drubenheimer’s death regardless of the dramatic consequences.

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THE REACTIVE

THE WRITERS’ RETREAT

MASANDE NTSHANGA

INDU BALACHANDRAN

ISBN: 978-1-909762-59-6 eISBN: 978-1-909762-60-2 SEPTEMBER 2017 Literary fiction Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 174 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: UK & Commonwealth, excl. South Africa

ISBN: 978-1-909762-51-0 eISBN: 978-1-909762-52-7 JULY 2017 Romance Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 300 pp Price: £7.99 Rights: World, excl. Indian subcontinent

Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature ‘Woozy, touching . . . a novel that delivers an unexpected love letter to Cape Town, painting it as a place of frustrated glory. The Reactive often teems with a beauty that seems to carry on in front of its glue-huffing wasters despite themselves.’ Marian Ryan, Slate In a city that has lost its shimmer, Lindanathi and his two friends Ruan and Cecelia sell illegal pharmaceuticals while chasing their next high. Lindanathi, deeply troubled by his hand in his brother’s death, has turned his back on his family, until a message from home reminds him of a promise he made years before. When a puzzling masked man enters their lives, Lindanathi is faced with a decision: continue his life in Cape Town, or return to his family and to all he has left behind.

Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a notso-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant,

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life-affirming story about secrets, memory, chemical abuse and family, and the redemption that comes from facing what haunts us most.

MASANDE NTSHANGA is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation.

He received a Fulbright Award, an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review, Chimurenga, VICE and n + 1. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine.

Ideal for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Ayisha Malik.

‘A sparky, modern and glamorous romantic story!’

Sareeta Domingo, author of The Nearness of You Young Amby Balan has had enough with the 9 to 5 life at Citibank. Throwing caution to the wind, she quits her job and becomes a Twitter-writer for Krish Kumaar, the hunky new Kollywood superstar.

But despite her new exciting job (and having the opportunity to ogle her gorgeous boss all day long), Amby still craves finally being able to fulfil her dream of becoming a writer.

She comes across an ad for a writers’ workshop in Greece and cannot pack her bags soon enough.

On the way to Santorini, she meets Mini Cherian, a best-selling children’s books author who fantasises about writing erotic novels, and Bobby Varma, who left behind the advertising world to become a travel writer.

Together, they embark on an unforgettable adventure to finally discover their true selves and find love in impossibly romantic Santorini.

INDU BALACHANDRAN had a 30-year career in advertising, growing from copy-trainee to Executive Creative Director at J. Walter Thompson. She switched to travel writing, and has published articles in Travel Plus, The Lonely Planet, iDiva, The Sunday Times and reviewed seventy eco-friendly destinations all over India for Travel To Care.

Indu’s writings have featured in five anthologies of short stories. She lives in Chennai and writes humour columns for the Sunday Hindu, and prize-winning contest slogans for ecstatic relatives. She also fantasizes about doing stand-up comedy at staid Tam Brahm weddings.

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SWIMMING WITH FISHES

MURDER IN MONTEGO BAY

RASHEDA ASHANTI MALCOLM

A Preddy and Harris Investigation PAULA LENNON

ISBN: 978-1-909762-45-9 eISBN: 978-1-909762-46-6 MAY 2017 Romance Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 328 pp Price: £7.99 Rights: World

ISBN: 978-1-909762-41-1 eISBN: 978-1-909762-42-8 JUNE 2017 Crime Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 296 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: World

‘A veritable blockbuster of a crime novel!’ Peter Kalu, author of Yard Dogs In Montego Bay, Jamaica, privileged Chinese-Jamaican brothers Lester and Carter Chin Ellis have enjoyed a sheltered life as the heirs to the iced desserts empire Chinchillerz. One fateful night, following a fiery encounter with local law enforcement the brothers are taken to Pelican Walk Police Station, where Lester is detained for drunk driving, while Carter is released without charge. Within minutes of leaving the station Carter is shot dead in a drive-by.

Discredited Detective Raythan Preddy is put in charge of the murder case and is forced to accept the assistance of Detective Sean Harris, a Scottish lawman seconded to Jamaica. With his superiors watching his every move and the Chin Ellis family interfering with the investigation, Preddy is determined to catch the killer and save his career.

You can find the second Preddy and Harris Investigation, Murder Under the Palms, on page 6!

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PAULA LENNON was born in England to Jamaican parents, the sixth child and only girl amongst five boys. She lived in Jamaica during her teens and attended college in Chapelton, Clarendon. Back in England, Paula worked for many years as a commercial lawyer in London, before deciding to live where the weather was more conducive to smiling. She currently resides in Jamaica, where she is always actively plotting, writing, and admiring the Caribbean Sea. Murder in Montego Bay is her first novel.

‘I dream you last night.’ Mother Cynthy’s smile, like her eyes, courted mischief. ‘Dream you were swimming with fishes. This can mean only one thing…’

tions, and will Ben be the man to make Kat’s dream come true? Or will their relationship amount to no more than a romantic encounter under the bright Jamaican sun?

The Meadows, Jamaica Beautiful young Kat Lewis, artist and daughter of the community, has always wanted a child. She is overjoyed when Mother Cynthy, the town herbalist, sees Kat swimming with fishes in a dream, a vision that can only mean one thing: Kat will soon be a mother.

Tall, handsome Thornton “Ben” Benjamin, a successful Londoner in the real estate business, is on a business trip to The Meadows when he spots Kat on the beach. A mysterious energy draws him to her and despite the warning signs in his head, he is unable to resist. Throwing caution and better judgement to the wind, he pursues her and their initial friendship soon develops into a passionate romance.

But secrets remain untold between them: Kat is suffering from a chronic illness and Ben has a secret life back home. Will their love survive those revela-

RASHEDA ASHANTI MALCOLM is a writer, a playwright and the founder of Candace Magazine, aimed at women of colour. Her initiative was rewarded by many prizes, including the Black Business Woman of the Year, the National Black Women Achievement Award and, more recently, the Pandora Award for Publishing.

Rasheda’s first novel was a runner-up in the Saga Literary Prize. She initiated the Candace Black Women Achievement Award, and WILDE International Network. She currently teaches Creative Writing in London.

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MY BEAUTIFUL SHADOW

REST IN POWER: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

RADHIKA JHA

SYBRINA FULTON and TRACY MARTIN

ISBN: 978-1-909762-47-3 eISBN: 978-1-909762-48-0 MARCH 2017 Women’s fiction Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 232 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: UK, Ireland & Commonwealth, excl. Canada & Indian subcontinent

‘A fascinating book on the seductive (and toxic) power of shopping.’ Marie Claire, Italy Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother.

Outwardly, she is no different from other young mothers, but her secret sets her apart. She belongs to a kind of club, which involves luxury, beautiful clothes and accessories.

The club makes it possible for Kayo to escape her tedious life, to become someone else and to embrace a dazzling new world. But it quickly becomes an obsession, a drug, the way to both paradise and hell.

Can she find her way out of the dark underworld of debt, lies and prostitution? Or is she doomed to exchange one form of loneliness for another?

A deeply absorbing novel about the “holes” that suddenly appear in women’s lives, My Beautiful Shadow is a powerful cautionary tale about consumerism gone mad.

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ISBN: 978-1-909762-57-2 eISBN: 978-1-909762-58-9 FEBRUARY 2017 Memoir, True stories Binding: Demy-format paperback Extent: 336 pp Price: £12.99 Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada

RADHIKA JHA was born in India and has studied anthropology and political science in the US. She has worked for Hindustan Times and BusinessWorld, as well as the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, where she started up the Interact project for the education of the children of victims of terrorism in different parts of India. She recently moved to Beijing after living for six years in Tokyo with her husband and two children. She regularly contributes to anthologies and her stories are published in newspapers and magazines.

New adaptation releasing July 2018 produced by Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and Paramount Productions.

On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighborhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin’s name would be spoken by President Obama, honored by professional athletes, and passionately discussed all over traditional and social media.

Trayvon’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, driven by their intense love for their lost son, launched a nationwide campaign for justice that would change the USA and the world.

Five years after his tragic death, Travyon Martin has become a symbol of social justice activism, as has his hauntingly familiar image: the photo of a young man, wearing his favourite hoodie and gazing silently at the camera. But who was Trayvon Martin, before he became an icon? And how did one black

child’s death become the match that lit a civil rights movement?

Rest in Power, told through the compelling alternating narratives of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, answers those questions from the most intimate of sources. It’s the story of the beautiful and complex child they lost, the cruel unresponsiveness of the police and the hostility of the legal system, and the inspiring journey they took from grief and pain to power, and from tragedy and senselessness to meaning.

SYBRINA FULTON and TRACY MARTIN are the founders of The Trayvon Martin Foundation (trayvonmartinfoundation.org), which aims to create community programming based on non-violent initiatives, and raise awareness of the impact of violent crimes on the family. They are frequent speakers at universities and community organizations, and on national and international media. Fulton and Martin live in Florida.

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DANCING THE DEATH DRILL

Radio sunrise

FRED KHUMALO

Anietie Isong

ISBN: 978-1-909762-53-4 eISBN: 978-1-909762-54-1 FEBRUARY 2017 Historical fiction Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 328 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: UK & Ireland

ISBN: 978-1-909762-37-4 eISBN: 978-1-909762-38-1 JANUARY 2017 Political Satire, Literary Fiction Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 160 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: World

Paris, 1958. An Algerian waiter at the famous restaurant La Tour d’Argent is convicted of the murder of two customers. As he is awaiting trial, his long-time friend Jerry Moloto helps an opportunistic and ambitious journalist build a case to defend him.

Through Jerry’s testimony the reader discovers that the waiter is actually Pitso Motaung, a mixed race South African drafted to fight in the First World War. He is also one of the few remaining survivors of the SS Mendi tragedy, which saw the formidable warship sink off the coast of the Isle of Wight, killing 646 people, including many black South African soldiers.

So how did a brave soldier become a criminal and will Pitso’s name be cleared before it is too late?

Commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the sinking of the SS Mendi, Dancing the Death Drill is a timely novel about life and the many challenges it throws our way.

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FRED KHUMALO is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction from Durban, South Africa.

Khumalo’s work has appeared in various publications, including the Sunday Times, the Toronto Star, New African magazine, the Sowetan and Isolezwe.

His books include #Zuptasmustfall and Other Rants (2016), Bitches Brew (winner of the European Union Literary Award 2005), Seven Steps to Heaven and Touch My Blood, (2005), which was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction and has been adapted for the stage.

‘What is left when there is no hope and everything is for sale? Isong weaves a profoundly personal story of contemporary Nigeria even while dealing with broader societal and cultural issues.’ Chika Unigwe, author of Black Messiah and Night Dancer ‘Never cover an assignment without collecting a brown envelope,’ Boniface had said. ‘It is a real life saver for all journalists in this country.’

Ifiok, a young journalist working for the government radio station in Lagos, aspires to always do the right thing but the odds seem to be stacked against him.

Government pressures cause the funding to his radio drama to get cut off, his girlfriend leaves him when she discovers he is having an affair with an intern, and kidnappings and militancy are on the rise in the country. When Ifiok travels to his hometown to do a documentary on some ex-militants’ apparent redemption, a tragi-comic series of events will make him realise he is unable to swim against the tide.

Radio Sunrise paints a satirical portrait of (post) post-colonial Nigeria that builds on the legacy

of the great African satirist tradition of Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Ayi Kwei Armah.

ANIETIE ISONG has worked as a journalist, speechwriter and public relations manager in the UK and abroad. His writing has received several awards, including a Commonwealth Short Story Award and the Remember Oluwale Writing Prize.

Anietie holds an MA in Communications from the University of Leicester, and completed a PhD in New Media and Writing at De Montfort University, Leicester.

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ISBN: 978-1-909762-35-0

978-1-909762-43-5 | eISBN: 978-1-909762-44-2

978-1-909762-32-9| eISBN: 978-1-909762-09-1

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978-1-909762-31-2 | HB ISBN: 978-1-909762-06-0

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