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New Titles July - December 2017 BOOKS FROM JACARANDA CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE FOLLOWING VENDORS… Queen’s Park ~ Books ~ West End Lane ~ Books ~ 2 Jacaranda P.1 NEW RELEASES The Writers’ Retreat Murder, Muses and Me The Reactive The Impossible Five Taty Went West Seven Stones Once upon a time in Shaolin P.10 RECENTLY PUBLISHED page 5 page 6 Rest in Power Radio Sunrise Dancing the Death Drill My Beautiful Shadow Swimming with Fishes Murder in Montego Bay P.17 BESTSELLERS AND AWARD WINNERS P.23 BACKLIST page 9 page 10 Jacaranda 3 THE WRITERS’ RETREAT INDU BALACHANDRAN 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 Ideal for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Ayisha Malik. Together, they embark on an unforgettable adventure to finally discover their true selves and ‘A sparky, modern and glamorous romantic story!’ find love in impossibly romantic Santorini. Sareeta Domingo, author of The Nearness of You INDU BALACHANDRAN had a 30-year career in Young Amby Balan has had enough with the 9 to 5 advertising, growing from copy-trainee to Executive life at Citibank. Throwing caution to the wind, she Creative Director at J. Walter Thompson. She quits her job and becomes a Twitter-writer for Krish switched to travel writing, and has published Kumaar, the hunky new Kollywood superstar. articles in Travel Plus, The Lonely Planet, iDiva, The But despite her new exciting job (and having the Sunday Times and reviewed seventy eco-friendly opportunity to ogle her gorgeous boss all day long), destinations all over India for Travel To Care. Amby still craves finally being able to fulfil her dream of becoming a writer. Indu’s writings have featured in five anthologies of short stories. She lives in Chennai and writes humour She comes across an ad for a writers’ workshop in columns for the Sunday Hindu, and prize-winning Greece and cannot pack her bags soon enough. contest slogans for ecstatic relatives. She also On the way to Santorini, she meets Mini Cherian, a fantasizes about doing stand-up comedy at staid best-selling children’s books author who fantasises Tam Brahm weddings. about writing erotic novels, and Bobby Varma, who left behind the advertising world to become a travel writer. 4 New Autumn Fiction OF MURDER, MUSES AND ME CLAUDIA CHIBICI-REVNEANU 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 Quirky crime for fans of Colin Bateman’s With her sanity now in question, Rosalind is even ‘Mystery Man’ series more determined to uncover the truth behind Drubenheimer’s death regardless of the dramatic ‘Delightful’ Lois Lavrisa, author of Homicide by Hamlet consequences. When bestselling author Mark Drubenheimer Of Murder, Muses and Me is a sharp and witty debut is found dead in his studio, Rosalind Waterloo’s by a promising talent. world collapses. The official story is that the author committed suicide, but for his devoted fan, there is CLAUDIA CHIBICI-REVNEANU is a geographically only one explanation: Drubenheimer was murdered, confused Austrian, who currently works as a lecturer and Rosalind is the only person who can expose at the National Autonomous University of Mexico the killer. (UNAM) in León, Mexico. The young woman takes her investigation to London She has published poems, literary essays, and to the heart of the publishing industry where translations and academic articles in different she encounters an intriguing cast of characters; an international magazines such as Celeste, Schreibkraft, eccentric editor, a modest muse, a wounded widow olasciviles and The International Journal of Cultural and a mesmerising mystery man. Policy Studies. In 2000, she won the Austrian award for women writers, Minna Kautsky. New Autumn Fiction 5 THE REACTIVE MASANDE NTSHANGA 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 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a not- Longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature so-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant, life-affirming story about secrets, memory, chemical ‘Woozy, touching . a novel that delivers an unexpected abuse and family, and the redemption that comes love letter to Cape Town, painting it as a place of from facing what haunts us most. frustrated glory. The Reactive often teems with a beauty that seems to carry on in front of its glue-huffing MASANDE NTSHANGA is the winner of the wasters despite themselves.’ Marian Ryan, Slate inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013, and a finalist for the Caine Prize in 2015. He was In a city that has lost its shimmer, Lindanathi born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a and his two friends Ruan and Cecelia sell illegal degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree pharmaceuticals while chasing their next high. in English Studies from UCT, where he became a Lindanathi, deeply troubled by his hand in his creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in brother’s death, has turned his back on his family, Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. until a message from home reminds him of a promise he made years before. When a puzzling He received a Fulbright Award, an NRF Freestanding masked man enters their lives, Lindanathi is faced Masters scholarship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship with a decision: continue his life in Cape Town, or and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared return to his family and to all he has left behind. in The White Review, Chimurenga, VICE and n + 1. He has also written for Rolling Stone magazine. 6 New Autumn Fiction SEVEN STONES VÉNUS KHOURY-GHATA TRANSLATED BY ANEESA ABBAS HIGGINS 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 VÉNUS KHOURY-GHATA is a poet and a novelist. She was born in Lebanon in 1937 and has lived in In Khouf, a city on the windswept fringes of the Sahel Paris since 1972. Considered a major voice in France’s desert, a woman named Noor has been sentenced contemporary literature, she has published a dozen to death for adultery. To the religious authorities, it novels and has many collections of poems. She makes no difference that she was actually raped. The has been awarded, inter alia, the Prix Goncourt for stones that will wash away the family’s dishonour in Poetry and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Française. 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. New Autumn Fiction 7 TATY WENT WEST NIKHIL SINGH 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 ‘A hallucinogenic post-apocalyptic carnival ride – Navigating the collapse of an already chaotic Nikhil Singh has a strange and intriguing mind.’ society, Taty struggles against present danger while Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City confronting the demons of her own past. With moustachioed wrestlers, marauding Buddhist Travellers called the Zone ‘the Land of Strangers’: Punks, a feline voodoo surgeon and the presence the place where anyone could escape anything, of the enigmatic, disfigured Dr. Dali, Taty takes on and where the lost things lay. a highly unique universe and emerges as a heroine whose petulant nonchalance hides a mighty spirit. Taty is a troubled adolescent living with her equally troubled mother in the suburbs of the Lowlands. In NIKHIL SINGH is a Cape Town based artist, writer, a moment of uncontrolled anger she finds her life musician and film-maker. He has fronted the critically changed forever and, hiding a terrible secret, she acclaimed South African art-rock bands The Wild runs away, heading West into the Outzone. Eyes and Hi Spider, as well as releasing a plethora of It is clear that this is no ordinary story when she solo albums under the moniker ‘Witchboy’. is captured by a malicious imp, befriended by an evangelising robotic nun and wooed by a He has illustrated the graphic novels The Ziggurat transgender hoodlum, leading her further down the (Bell-Roberts 2003) by The Constructus Corporation rabbit hole. (now Die Antwoord) and Salem Brownstone with writer John Harris Dunning. Taty Went West is his first novel. 8 New Autumn Fiction THE IMPOSSIBLE FIVE: IN SEARCH OF SOUTH AFRICA’S MOST ELUSIVE MAMMALS JUSTIN FOX 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 A fresh and humorous take on the traditional Travel writer, novelist and photographer JUSTIN African safari.