June 2017 Janua Welcome to a New Year of New Books!

TITLES NEWRY - JUNE 2017 JANUA 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

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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. She currently the prediction toward reality. Their friendship teaches Creative Writing in London. develops into an all-consuming love to which they both surrender. However unknown to Ben, Kat is a sickle cell sufferer and unknown to Kat, Ben is already married.

Jacaranda 8 MURDER IN MONTEGO BAY PAULA LENNON

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!’ PAULA LENNON was born in England to Jamaican Peter Kalu, author of Yard Dogs parents, the sixth child and only girl amongst five boys. She lived in Jamaica during her teens In Montego Bay, Jamaica, privileged Chinese- and attended college in Chapelton, Clarendon. Jamaican brothers Lester and Carter Chin Ellis Back in England, Paula worked for many years as have enjoyed a sheltered life as the heirs to the a commercial lawyer in London, before deciding iced desserts empire Chinchillerz. One fateful to live where the weather was more conducive to night, following a fiery encounter with local law smiling. She currently resides in Jamaica, where she enforcement the brothers are taken to Pelican Walk is always actively plotting, writing, and admiring the Police Station, where Lester is detained for drunk Caribbean Sea. Murder in Montego Bay is her first novel. driving, while Carter is released without charge. Within minutes of leaving the station Carter is shot dead in a drive-by.

Discredited Detective Raytheon 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.

Jacaranda 9 BESTSELLERS AND AWARD WINNERS

AS HEARD BLACK ON BBC HISTORY RADIO 4 HIGHLIGHT

978-1-909762-43-5 978-1-909762-35-0 £9.99 £12.99

BETTY MULTI TRASK AWARD AWARD WINNER WINNER

978-1-909762-22-0 978-1-909762-31-2 £8.99 £7.99

Jacaranda 10 THE BOOK OF HARLAN BERNICE L. MCFADDEN

ISBN: 978-1-909762-43-5 eISBN: 978-1-909762-44-2 OCTOBER 2016 Historical fiction Binding: Demy paperback Extent: 400 pp Price: £9.99 Rights: World, excl. North America & the Caribbean

‘. . . a fascinating exploration of the beauty of the Harlem But after the City of Light falls under Nazi Renaissance, the jazz scene of 1930s Paris and the horror occupation, Harlan and Lizard are thrown into of what black people experienced in the Nazi holocaust.’ Buchenwald—the notorious concentration camp in Samira Ahmed BBC Radio 4, Front Row Weimar, Germany—irreparably changing the course of Harlan’s life. ‘This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty.’ Based on exhaustive research and told in Washington Post McFadden’s mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan skillfully blends the stories of McFadden’s familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters. The Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlan’s parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, BERNICE L. MCFADDEN is the author of nine Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather critically acclaimed novels including Sugar, dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New he eventually becomes a professional musician. York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Notable Books of 2012), Glorious, which was featured Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular in O, The Oprah Magazine and was a finalist for the cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre— NAACP Image Award. She is a three-time Hurston/ affectionately referred to as “The Harlem of Paris” Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient by black American musicians—Harlan jumps at the of three awards from the BCALA (The Black Caucus opportunity, convincing Lizard to join him. of the American Library Association). McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jacaranda 11 EVELYN DOVE: BRITAIN’S BLACK CABARET QUEEN STEPHEN BOURNE

ISBN: 978-1-909762-35-0 eISBN: 978-1-909762-36-7 OCTOBER 2016 Illustrated biography Binding: Paperback, 225 x 166 mm Extent: 160 pp Price: £12.99 Rights: World

The untold story of one of Britain’s most versatile This is a celebration of an extraordinary career singers and performers of the 1920s and 30s punctuated with vertiginous highs and profound lows, and places Dove in historical context with Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical artists of her time, such as Adelaide Hall, Dame theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career Cleo Laine and Dame Shirley Bassey. spanning five decades from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A black British diva with movie star looks; STEPHEN BOURNE has been specialising in black she captivated audiences and admirers around British histories since 1991. He has written over 15 the world, enjoying the same appeal as the books, including the acclaimed Black in the British ‘Forces Sweetheart’ Vera Lynn throughout the Frame, Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music Second World War. and The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen and Women 1939-1945. Refusing to be constrained by her race or middle– class West African and English backgrounds, she Stephen received the 2015 Southwark Arts Forum would become a regular vocalist for the BBC and Award for Literature for Black Poppies: Britain’s a celebrated performer across continental Europe, Black Community and the Great War. He is a regular India and the US. At the height of her fame in contributor to BBC documentaries and has written the 1930s, she worked with the pioneers of black for many publications, including The Voice, The British theatre, replacing Josephine Baker as the Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today. star attraction in a revue at the Casino de Paris and scandalizing her family by appearing on stage semi-nude.

Jacaranda 12 TRAM 83 FISTON MWANZA MUJILA

ISBN: 978-1-909762-22-0 eISBN: 978-1-909762-23-7 OCTOBER 2015 Price: £8.99 Literary fiction Binding: B-format paperback, French flaps Extent: 192 pp Rights: UK & Ireland

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 Tram 83 plunges the reader into the atmosphere of Winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 a gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colourfully exotic. It is an observation of human relationships in In an African city in secession land tourists of all a world that has become a global village, an African- languages and nationalities have only one desire: rhapsody novel hammered by rhythms of jazz. to make a fortune by exploiting the mineral and human wealth of the country. As soon as night falls, FISTON MWANZA MUJILA was born in 1981 they go out to get drunk, dance, eat and abandon in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, themselves in Tram 83, the only night-club of the where he went to a catholic school before studying city, the den of all the iniquities. Literature and Human Sciences at Lubumbashi University. He now lives in Graz, Austria and is Lucien, an aspiring writer, fleeing the exactions and pursuing a PHD in Romance Languages. the censorship, finds refuge in the city thanks to Requiem, a friend. Requiem lives mainly by theft Originally published in French in August 2014 by and swindle, while Lucien only thinks of writing and Éditions Métailié, Tram 83 is Fiston’s first novel and living honestly. Around them gravitate gangsters has been translated into eight languages, picking up and young girls, retired or runaway men, profit- numerous prizes and accolades from both sides of seeking tourists and federal agents of a non- the Atlantic along the way. existent State.

Jacaranda 13 BUTTERFLY FISH IRENOSEN OKOJIE

ISBN: 978-1-909762-31-2 HB ISBN: 978-1-909762-06-0 eISBN: 978-1-909762-14-5 JUNE 2016 Price: £7.99, £12.99 Literary fiction Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 346 pp Rights: World excl. Nigeria & Kenya

A Betty Trask Award winner (2016) warrior, and the brass head’s pivotal connection to them all. “One of the most original and innovative writers to emerge in many a year.” Haunting and compelling, Butterfly Fish is a richly Alex Wheatle MBE told story of love and hope, of family secrets, power, political upheaval, loss and coming undone. “Unique and imaginative.” Diana Evans, Orange Prize winner IRENOSEN OKOJIE is a Nigerian-British writer, curator and Arts Project Manager. Her writing has After the sudden death of her mother, London been featured in The Guardian and The Observer, photographer Joy struggles to pull the threads of and her short stories have been published her life back together with the support of her kind internationally. She has worked with the Royal but mysterious neighbour Mrs Harris. Joy’s fortunes Shakespeare Company, the Southbank Centre, and begin to change when she receives an unexpected the Caine Prize and was Writer in Residence for TEDx inheritance from her mother: a huge sum of money, East End. In 2014, she was the Prize Advocate for her grandfather’s diary and a unique brass artefact the SI Leeds Literary Prize and in 2015 the Evening from the ancient kingdom of Benin. Standard named her as one of the top debut novelists of the summer with for her novel Butterfly Joy’s search for the origins of the artifact takes us on Fish. She is a mentor for the Pen to Print project a journey through time, and as dark family secrets supported by publisher Constable & Robinson and come to light, Joy unearths the ties between her lives in East London. mother, grandfather, the wife of a king, a fearsome

Jacaranda 14 SPEAK GIGANTULAR IRENOSEN OKOJIE

ISBN: 978-1-909762-29-9 eISBN: 978-1-909762-30-5 SEPTEMBER 2016 Price: £8.99 Fiction, Short stories Binding: B-format paperback Extent: 224 pp Rights: World excl. Nigeria & Kenya

For fans of Helen Oyeyemi and Jeannette Winterson Sexy, serious and at times downright disturbing, this brilliant debut collection sizzles with originality. A startling debut short story collection from one of Britain’s rising literary stars. These stories are IRENOSEN OKOJIE is a Nigerian-British writer, captivating, erotic, enigmatic and disturbing. curator and Arts Project Manager. Her writing has Irenosen Okojie’s gift is in her understated humour, been featured in The Guardian and The Observer, her light touch, her razor-sharp assessment of the and her short stories have been published best and worst of humankind, and her unflinching internationally. See page 14 for the full biography. gaze into the darkest corners of the human experience.

In these stories Okojie creates worlds where lovelorn aliens abduct innocent coffee shop waitresses, where the London Underground is inhabited by the ghosts of errant citizens caught between here and the hereafter, where insensitive men cheat on their mistresses and can only muster enough interest to fall for one-dimensional poster girls and where brave young women attempt to be erotically empowered at their own peril.

Jacaranda 15 THE ELEPHANT AND THE BEE BEYOND THE PALE JESS DE BOER EMILY URQUHART

Driven by a childhood urge to ‘Save the World’ naive ‘A graceful, perceptive rendering of a misunderstood Kenyan, Jess de Boer leaves her privileged home condition.’ Kirkus Reviews in Nairobi in exchange for an adventure that spans continents and encompasses a series of jarring and When Emily’s daughter Sadie is born with albinism, often hilarious mishaps. A series of events eventually a rare genetic disorder where pigment fails to form in leads her back to Africa where she discovers her true the skin, hair and eyes, she elects to take an immersive calling: the wonderful world of beekeeping! journey to East Africa and through her own family tree to discover more about the condition. Join this modern day explorer as she tackles the enormous challenges of aid in Africa and Shot through with Emily’s expertise in folklore, this is environmental issues, with all the internet-derived a riveting story that questions our cultural beliefs, hubris of today’s youth. the randomness of our genes and which elicits beauty, amazement and horror. JESS DE BOER was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya where she now works as a beekeeper and is still on a EMILY URQUHART is a writer and folklorist based mission to one day save the world. The Elephant and in Victoria, British Columbia. Her work has appeared the Bee is her first book. in numerous publications, including Reader’s Digest, Flare and The Walrus.

Jacaranda 16 FROM PASTA TO PIGFOOT FROM PASTA TO PIGFOOT: FRANCES MENSAH WILLIAMS SECOND HELPINGS FRANCES MENSAH WILLIAMS

‘A warm and poignant “coming of culture” novel.’ Faye Bonsu returns for another adventure in love! Lesley Lokko Faye now seems to have it all, but with all her friends Under-achieving PA, Faye Bonsu is on a mission to find shifting into yummy-mummy mode, a man who love. A journey that will transport her from London’s seems to have no desire to put a ring on it, tricky leafy Hampstead and closer to her African heritage clients, and an attractive, single boss, things are not and the hectic social whirlpool of Ghana. Here she quite as simple as they might appear. Cue a return to meets the handsome Rocky Asante, a cynical, career- sunny Ghana for what she hopes will be the time of obsessed banker with no time for women . . . until now. her life. But life doesn’t always offer second chances and she is forced to make choices that come with Let loose in a world of food, fun and sun, Faye is forced lasting consequences. to discover that no matter how far you travel, you can’t find love until you find yourself. FRANCES MENSAH WILLIAMS was born in Ghana and grew up in the UK. She is CEO of Interims for FRANCES MENSAH WILLIAMS was born in Ghana Development Ltd and publisher of careers and and grew up in the UK. She is CEO of Interims for business website, ReConnectAfrica.com. Her work Development Ltd and publisher of careers and spans the UK and Africa, and she is the recipient of business website, ReConnectAfrica.com. several professional awards.

Jacaranda 17 SO THE PATH DOES NOT DIE NO MORE HEROES PEDE HOLLIST STEPHEN THOMPSON

African Literature Association Book of the Year (2014) Author of the critically acclaimed novel, Toy Soldiers

So the Path Does Not Die is a touching coming of age It’s July 7, 2005, and Simon Weekes is among the lucky story that follows Finaba through her childhood few to escape a massive bomb blast on the London into adulthood, and from her native Sierra Leone to underground. Seconds after the explosion, he quickly the USA. This contemporary tale addresses issues organises the survivors into an effective rescue team. of ethnicity, sexuality, gender and Female Genital In the days that follow his heroics are subject to the Circumcision, told through the life of a determined, glare of the media and he becomes an overnight young African woman. But above all, it is a story celebrity. The only thing is, he doesn’t want all the of survival. attention. He can’t afford it. He has too much to lose.

PEDE HOLLIST is an associate professor of English at STEPHEN THOMPSON was born in Hackney to The University of Tampa, Florida. Born in Sierra Leone, Jamaican parents. He has written several novels and Pede studied in London for a number of years before plays, and has lectured in Creative Writing at Birkbeck moving to the US. His short story Foreign Aid was College and the University of Edinburgh. He is the shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. recipient of an Arts Council New Writers Bursary and So the Path Does Not Die is his first novel. is a former Hawthornden Fellow.

Jacaranda 18 EVERY BOY SHOULD HAVE A MAN SATANS & SHAITANS PRESTON L. ALLEN OBINNA UDENWE

Imagine a post-human world where Oafs rule what ‘A bold and timely new voice on Nigeria’s ever- is left of the planet. Humans have been reduced strident literary scene.’ to a subspecies called mans and are kept as pets. Diana Evans, winner of the Orange Prize And a boy oaf and his beautiful pet mans will teach us about love, justice and bravery. Determined to overrule the Nigerian President, members of the powerful secret society, led by Chief Every Boy Should Have a Man is an epic fable about Donald Amechi and Christian Evangelist Chris Chuba, love in all its forms, and the unbreakable power employ a terrorist cell to carry out attacks in Northern of hope, set against the backdrop of poverty, Nigeria under the guise of forming an Islamic state. discrimination and environmental destruction. Set against the backdrop of Nigeria’s ongoing PRESTON L. ALLEN is a recipient of a State of Florida terrorism tensions and upcoming elections, Individual Artist Fellowship. Every Boy Should Have a Satans and Shaitans is a powerful story about love, Man is his latest novel and has been nominated for politics, power, religion, terrorism and corruption. the Hurston/Wright Prize for African-American literature. OBINNA UDENWE is a Nigerian writer and political commentator. In 2014 he was named Ebonyi State Literary Icon. Satans and Shaitans is his debut novel.

Jacaranda 19 THE BLINK THAT KILLED THE EYE THE COLOUR BLACK ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU MAIA WALCZAK

‘The Blink That Killed The Eye is a rising flood of life, Includes stunning, intricate illustrations and original poetry and everything in-between.’ artwork by the author Rachel Holmes, The Metropolist Silvia Cruz lives quietly as an artist in San Diego A stunningly crafted debut short story collection, drawing the contours of the human body – Max, taking a poetic torch to the shadows of daily life: Arthur and then one day, Jack. Silvia is inexplicably From building sites to prison cells; from the birth drawn to Jack, and confides in him about her past, of love to the last moments of breath, Anthony revealing a secret that drives them both out of town. Anaxagorou navigates expertly through the tangled nets of invisibility, desperation and power to bring Together they travel across the landscapes of America us time-defining tales of tragedy and hope. to Alaska, looking for answers and finding adventure.

ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU is an acclaimed poet, MAIA WALCZAK is an artist, illustrator and author. prose writer, playwright, performer and educator. Born and raised in London to Polish parents, Maia He has published eight volumes of poetry, a spoken has also lived in Chile, Australia and Poland, word EP and written for theatre. and now resides in Cornwall.

Jacaranda 20 GLASS FASHION AFRICA PATRICK WILMOT JACQUELINE SHAW

A writer in self-imposed exile in London receives a With an introduction by Chris Spring of the call from the Prime Minister of his former country, British Museum inviting him to return to write the Prime Minister’s biography. He soon finds himself thrust into a A comprehensive guide to the designers, materials, world of exceptional wealth, power and corruption, and sustainable practices available in continental Africa. leading to one potentially cataclysmic decision that will change everything. ‘Fashion Africa covers all things African and fashion related without losing direction, or the reader’s attention. An unflinching tale of social reality, politics, love and Strong on passion and factual information with Vogue unmitigated horror in a mythological Caribbean level photography, Fashion Africa is a coffee table book drawn directly from real life. with a conscience.’ Joy Francis, Words of Colour PATRICK WILMOT was born in Jamaica in 1942 and taught Political Sociology in Nigeria for 18 years. JACQUELINE SHAW is the Founding Director of In 1988, he was abducted by Nigerian security police social enterprise Africa Fashion Guide (AFG) and a and forcibly ‘retired’ to London. His début novel was professional fashion designer by trade. She has been Seeing Double (Cape, 2005/Vintage, 2012). a speaker at FIT in New York, WOW Festival, the House of Lords, Ghana Fashion Week and more.

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