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Hoperoad PUBLISHING HOPEROAD PUBLISHING 2020 finds us celebrating our tenth anniversary. Over this period, we have not only published exciting, hand-picked novels but have also added ground- breaking (and prize-winning) Young Adult titles to our list. 2019 was marked by the introduction of our great new imprint SMALL AXES, overseen by Pete Ayrton as Editor. HopeRoad continues to promote equality in literature with a special focus on Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Themes of identity, cultural stereotyping and disability will always be grist to HopeRoad’s busy and productive mill. Rosemarie Hudson, Founder and Publisher, HopeRoad Pete Ayrton, Editor, Small Axes TAHAR BEN JELLOUN ON TERRORISM: Conversations with my daughter Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins Introduction by Jeremy Harding ‘Morocco’s greatest living author ... his impressive body of work combines intellect NON FICTION and imagination in magical fusion’ GUARDIAN Tahar Ben Jelloun’s impassioned, succinct explanation of the seductions and dangers of terrorism in the modern world takes the form of a dialogue between the author and his teenage daughter. Exploring all forms of terrorism in both a historical and contemporary context, the book addresses complex and pressing questions in an everyday, accessible language. Because Ben Jelloun understands that terrorist acts come from the perpetrators’ deep sense of inadequacy, his arguments are all the more powerful. He places a high value on the importance of secular values, with which he believes Islam is compatible. This is an eloquent, timely plea for TAHAR BEN JELLOUN is a tolerance and understanding. Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic. He became known for his 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable. Today he lives in Paris. Non-Fiction | ISBNs: 978-1-9164671-1-8 (PB) 978-1-9164671-6-3 (eBook) | 27 Feb 2020 148pp | 198mm x 129mm | £8.99 | Rights: UK + Commonwealth (except Canada) SMALL AXES ANNA BANTI ARTEMISIA Translated by Shirley D’Ardia Caracciolo Introduced by Susan Sontag FICTION ‘What makes Artemisia a great book – and unique in Banti’s work – is this double destiny of a book lost and re-created. A metaphor for literature, perhaps. And a metaphor for reading, militant reading – which, at its worthiest, is rereading – too’ SUSAN SONTAG Artemisia is a classic of 20th century Italian literature. From its first publication in 1953, Anna Banti’s novel about Artemisia Gentileschi, an iconic 17th century painter, established itself as a feminist masterpiece. Much in Gentileschi’s life marked her out as a victim – rape at the age of 18, a forced marriage to a man she did not love ANNA BANTI, the pen name and, a powerful, patriarchal father, Orazio of Lucia Lopresti, was born in Gentileschi, who failed to value her artistic Florence in 1895. Like Artemisia genius. But Gentileschi did not accept the Gentileschi, Anna Banti was always status of victim. In the years between 1610 and defined by a male mentor – in her 1650; she produced over 50 paintings that have case, her husband Roberto Longhi. established her as one of the great painters of Until his death in 1970, Anna Banti all time. lived in his shadow. Since then she has found an audience able to Published to coincide with a appreciate her genius in its own major retrospective of Artimisia right. The dialogue between author Gentileschi’s work at the National and subject in Artemisia is one of Gallery in London the great literary conversations of our time. Fiction | ISBN: 978-1-913109-00-4 (PB | 978-1-913109-12-7(eBook) | 02 April 2020 256pp | 198mm x 129mm | £9.99 | Rights: UK + Commonwealth (except Canada) SMALL AXES FAR FROM DOUALA MAX LOBE Translated by Ros Schwartz FICTION ‘Lobe’s wonderfully energised voice immediately buttonholes his reader and leads them on an utterly unexpected journey across Cameroon. I only wish this novel had been twice the length. You are in for a treat’ PATRICK GALE On the trail of Roger, a brother who has gone north in search of football fame in Europe, Choupi, the narrator, takes with him the older Simon, a neighbourhood friend. The bus trip north nearly ends in disaster when, at a pit stop, Simon goes wandering in search of grilled caterpillars – the woman who makes the bus wait insists on payment of 2000 CFA. At the police station in Yaoundé, the local cop MAX LOBE was born in Douala, tells them that a feckless boza who wants to go Cameroon. At eighteen he moved to Europe is not worth police effort and their to Switzerland, where he achieved mother should offer to pleasure the police chief a BA in communication and if she wants help! Through a series of sparky journalism and a master’s in public vignettes, Cameroon life is revealed in all its policy and administration. He is ups and downs. Important issues are raised a rising star of Swiss/Francophone - terrorism, poverty, homosexuality, violence- writing. His first novel, 39 Rue de but the tone is light and edgy. Berne, which portrays the lives of illegal immigrants in the red-light district of Geneva, received the 2014 Prix du Roman des Romands. In 2017, his novel Confidences won the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize. Fiction | ISBN: 978-1-913109-01-1 (PB) | 978-1-913109-08-0 (eBook) | 25 June 2020 176pp | 198mm x 129mm | £9.99 | Rights World English SMALL AXES KAMALA MARKANDAYA THE COFFER DAMS FICTION ‘The Coffer Dams is an absorbing tale about mechanical strength and spiritual weakness, physical certainties and moral doubts. It is set in modern India, but the conflict of values at its heart is universal’ JOHN MASTERS, author of BHOWANI JUNCTION Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers, arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife, Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are faced with a formidable challenge, which involves working in daunting mountain and jungle terrain, within a time schedule dictated by the extreme tropical weather. Setbacks occur which bring into focus KAMALA MARKANDAYA (1924 fundamental differences in the attitudes to life – 2004) was born in Mysore, India. and death of the British bosses and the Indian She studied history at Madras workers. A timely reminder of the British University and later worked for contempt for Indian lives and for nature. a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 to pursue a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar in a Sieve, her debut, was an international bestseller. A contemporary of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya is now being rediscovered as an essential figure in the post-colonial canon. Fiction | ISBN: 978-1-913109-02-8 (PB) | 978-1-913109-09-7 (eBook) | 20 July 2020 304pp | 198mm x 129mm | £10.99 | Rights: World ex India and Singapore SMALL AXES DUPPY CONQUEROR FERDINAND DENNIS FICTION ‘Dennis writes with abandoned, poetic relish and a contagious affection’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH First published in 1998, Duppy Conqueror is an epic tale of one man’s quest to fulfil a mission. Marshall Sarjeant is born at the beginning of the 20th century in Paradise, on the island of Jamaica. As a young man, he is entrusted with a mystical quest, to overcome a curse that has been put on his family and he must do this by returning to Africa, whence they were brought as slaves. He travels first to wartime London, where he marries and mixes with musicians and politicians, and then on to Africa and the struggle to escape from the colonial past. FERDINAND DENNIS is a writer, Marshall’s life turns full circle in his epic broadcaster, journalist and lecturer, mission to defeat the duppy, or ghost, which who is Jamaican by birth but at the started him on his voyage. age of eight moved to England, In Duppy Conqueror, first published in 1998, where his parents had migrated in Ferdinand Dennis has created a powerful the late 1950s. Dr James Procter narrative of the Afro-Caribbean experience in notes: “Perhaps as a result of his which the personal and the political seamlessly Caribbean background, Dennis is collide. a writer ultimately more concerned with routes than roots.” Ferdinand Dennis lives in North London. Fiction | ISBN: 978-1-913109-03-5 (PB) | 978-1-913109-10-3 (eBook) | 1 October 2020 352pp | 198mm x 129mm | £10.99 | Rights: World SMALL AXES THE TAINTED CAUVERY MADHAVAN FICTION ‘A moving story, compellingly told’ SHASHI THAROOR ‘A treat of a novel, deliciously detailed, full of living, breathing characters, transporting you effortlessly through time. Cauvery Madhavan has written another unmissable book’ MAGGIE GEE Based on a true story of the Irish Connaught Rangers south-east India in 1920, the novel is set in the fictional town of Nandagiri. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view lies the native part of Nandagiri with its heaving bazaar, reeking CAUVERY MADHAVAN was streets and brothels. Everyone knows their place born and educated in India. She and the part they were born to play – with one worked as a copywriter in her exception. The local Anglo-Indians, tainted by hometown of Chennai (formerly their mixed blood, belong . nowhere. Madras). Cauvery moved to Ireland When news of the Black and Tans’ atrocities thirty-three years ago and has been back in Ireland reaches the troops in India, even in love with the country ever since. their priest cannot cool the men’s rage. Politics Her other books are, Paddy Indian vie with passion as Private Flaherty pays court and The Uncoupling.
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