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Blogs in January 2020

Mating 23rd January 2020

An American anthropologist is at a loose end in Botswana. She is ferociously intelligent and wonderfully inquisitive. She is also in love with Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who runs an experimental women-only utopian village in the Kalahari. At...

Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin 23rd January 2020

A collection of nineteen folk stories from the Fon people of Benin, about orphans and twins with magical associations, spirits, animals, royalty, and farmers.

Mistress of Rome 22nd January 2020

Passion. Treachery. Murder… A heart-stopping epic about a Jewish slave girl and Rome’s greatest gladiator, who become involved in a plot to assassinate an emperor Orphaned by Rome’s savage legions, Thea, a slave girl from Judaea, has learned what...

Oceans Away 22nd January 2020

Set in Angola and Egypt, this amazing collection of short stories offers readers an insightful glimpse into the worlds of ordinary people who are oceans away. Featuring stories that cover a wide range of emotions and topics, these poignant...

Knowledge of Hell 22nd January 2020

The narrator is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. In...