Freetown 18th October 2020
“He was a Fula. I say ‘was’, because I haven’t seen him for a long time. I don’t know if he’s still alive or where he might be. He just disappeared.” Maria is independent, unconventional and unafraid. She is...
Blogs in October 2020
The Aphrodite and Adonis Touch 2nd October 2020
Three novellas in one volume! The mischievous goddess of love, Aphrodite, and her lover, Adonis, play a game with tourists to their Mediterranean island of Cyprus each spring and summer. Choosing a couple who might benefit from their special...
The House of Hunger 30th September 2020
Winner of the Guardian fiction prize, this novella and nine short stories describe life in a Zimbabwean township. They are about the brutalization of the individual’s mental processes, until madness, violence and despair become the normal state of affairs...
Old New York: Four Novellas 25th September 2020
Set in the New York of the 1840s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, the four short novels in this collection each reveal the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton’s....
The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories 16th September 2020
“The Wedding of Zein” unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih’s tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of...
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