NEW TITLES JANUARY - JUNE 2017 WELCOME TO A NEW YEAR OF NEW BOOKS! As we move through the remnants of 2016, a look back on the past year might inspire the well-worn adage, “you couldn’t make this stuff up”. The world looks forward to the next few years with anxious hearts and minds. While in 2016 truth may be stranger than fiction, at Jacaranda we enter 2017 with a stellar list of uniquely brilliant and illuminating tales. Whether debut voices, or veteran our authors take us from the darkly funny world of Nigerian satire with Anietie Isong’s RADIO SUNRISE, through the stifling exacting world of Tokyo motherhood, with Rahdika Jha’s exquisite novel, MY BEAUTIFUL SHADOW. Starkly evocative landscapes and searing observations of human cruelty and kindness make this work a stand out feature title for the spring. As we move into the summer, we slip into azure, warm Caribbean waters with two genre fiction offerings: Paula Lennon’sMURDER IN MONTEGO BAY, a crime procedural set in the heart of this famed Jamaican holiday destination and Rasheda Malcolm’s SWIMMING WITH FISHES, a very traditional romantic novel enlivened by its Caribbean setting. These offerings promise a new flavour to well-used recipes, new perspectives on old traditions, and bright new voices in the publishing arena. To say we at Jacaranda are excited about our publishing for next year would be a great understatement; we are ecstatic and sincerely hope you will be too. Valerie Brandes Founder and Publisher Jacaranda 2 CONTENTS P.3 NEW RELEASES Cosmogramma Radio Sunrise Dancing the Death Drill My Beautiful Shadow Swimming with Fishes Murder in Montego Bay P.10 BESTSELLERS AND AWARD WINNERS page 5 page 6 The Book of Harlan Evelyn Dove Tram 83 Butterfly Fish P.16 BACKLIST The Elephant and the Bee Beyond the Pale From Pasta to Pigfoot From Pasta to Pigfoot: Second Helpings So the Path Does Not Die No More Heroes Every Boy Should Have a Man Satans and Shaitans The Blink That Killed the Eye The Colour Black Glass Fashion Africa page 7 page 9 Jacaranda 3 COSMOGRAMMA COURTTIA NEWLAND FEATURED ISBN: 978-1-909762-15-2 eISBN: 978-1-909762-50-3 APRIL 2017 Short stories, sci-fi Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 224 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: World Ideal for fans of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, COURTTIA NEWLAND was born in London and I Robot and The Parable of the Sower. published his first book in 1997, at the age of 23. Further novels followed, including Society Within Cosmogramma is a captivating collection of and Snakeskin. In 2000 he co-edited the anthology speculative fiction short stories by one of the most IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, influential voices in British writing. Newland mixes and his short stories have featured in many other tropes of the science-fiction genre with afro- anthologies including The Time Out Book of London futurism to create compelling universes where circus Short Stories: Vol 2, England Calling: 24 Stories for the performers practice body augmentations, plants 21st Century and Disco 2000. take back the Earth, machines we created to fight our wars rise against us and our loved ones come Newland tours extensively for the British Council, back from the dead craving revenge. and has been writer-in-residence for Trinity College, Dublin and Georgetown University, Washington DC. Poetic, enticing and chilling, Newland’s collection He has also taught creative writing workshops and explores the human condition and revisits the most performed readings in countries as diverse as Russia, pressing existential questions of our times. Gambia, and Singapore. Jacaranda 4 RADIO SUNRISE ANIETIE ISONG ISBN: 978-1-909762-37-4 eISBN: 978-1-909762-38-1 JANUARY 2017 Political satire Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 288 pp Price: £8.99 Rights: World ‘Never cover an assignment without collecting a brown ANIETIE ISONG started his career as a journalist with envelope,’ Boniface had said. ‘It is a real life saver for all Radio Nigeria, in Lagos. His short stories have been journalists in this country.’ published in journals and broadcast on the BBC and Radio Nigeria. He won several awards, including the Ifiok, a young journalist working for the government Commonwealth Short Story Award in 2000 and the radio station in Lagos, aspires to always do the right Remember Oluwale Writing Prize in 2016. thing but the odds seem to be stacked against him. Government pressures cause the funding to his radio Anietie is currently completing a PhD in Media/ drama to get cut off, his girlfriend leaves him when Creative Writing in London. Radio Sunrise is his she discovers he is having an affair with an intern, first novel. 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. Jacaranda 5 DANCING THE DEATH DRILL FRED KHUMALO 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 Paris, 1958. An Algerian waiter at the famous FRED KHUMALO is an award-winning writer restaurant La Tour d’Argent is convicted of the murder of fiction and non-fiction from Durban, South of two customers. As he is awaiting trial, his long- Africa. Khumalo’s work has appeared in various time friend Jerry Moloto helps an opportunistic and publications, including the Sunday Times, the ambitious journalist build a case to defend him. Toronto Star, New African magazine, the Sowetan and Isolezwe. His books include #Zuptasmustfall Through Jerry’s testimony the reader discovers that and Other Rants (2016), Bitches Brew (winner of the the waiter is actually Pitso Motaung, a mixed race European Union Literary Award 2005), Seven Steps South African drafted to fight in the First World War. to Heaven and Touch My Blood, (2005), which was He is also one of the few remaining survivors of the shortlisted for the Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction SS Mendi tragedy, which saw the formidable warship and has been adapted for the stage. 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. Jacaranda 6 MY BEAUTIFUL SHADOW RADHIKA JHA 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) A deeply absorbing novel about the “holes” that power of shopping.’ suddenly appear in women’s lives. My Beautiful Marie Claire, Italy Shadow is a powerful cautionary tale about consumerism gone mad. Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no different from other young RADHIKA JHA was born in India and has studied mothers, but her secret sets her apart. She belongs anthropology and political science in the US. She to a kind of club, which involves luxury, beautiful has worked for Hindustan Times and BusinessWorld, clothes and accessories. as well as the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, where she started up the Interact project for the education of The club makes it possible for Kayo to escape the children of victims of terrorism in different parts her tedious life, to become someone else and of India. She recently moved to Beijing after living to embrace a dazzling new world. But it quickly for six years in Tokyo with her husband and two becomes an obsession, a drug, the way to both children. She regularly contributes to anthologies paradise and hell. Can she find her way out of the and her stories are published in newspapers dark underworld of debt, lies and prostitution? and magazines. Or is she doomed to exchange one form of loneliness for another? Jacaranda 7 SWIMMING WITH FISHES RASHEDA ASHANTI MALCOLM swimming with fishes ISBN: 978-1-909762-45-9 eISBN: 978-1-909762-46-6 MAY 2017 Romance Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 328 pp RASHEDA Price: £7.99 ASHANTI Rights: World MALCOLM Set in rural Jamaica, Swimming With Fishes evokes RASHEDA ASHANTI MALCOLM is a writer, the pain of a love affair between a London-born a playwright and the founder of Candace Magazine, businessman and a native Jamaican and how that aimed at women of colour. Her initiative was affair grows beyond either of their expectations. rewarded by many prizes, including the Black Business Woman of the Year, the National Black Sickle Cell Anaemia sufferer, Kat wants a baby more Women Achievement Award and, more recently, than life itself. When the town herbalist foretells of a the Pandora Award for Publishing. man from across the ocean who will father her child, Kat’s hopes intensify into a dream that must Rasheda’s first novel was a runner-up in the Saga come true. Literary Prize. She initiated the Candace Black Women Achievement Award, and WILDE Her encounter with Londoner Ben years later edges International Network.