Blogs in June 2024

Curandera 26th June 2024

This Summer, the award-winning author of Butterfly Fish and Nudibranch will release this extraordinary, thrilling, and mythical novel that will explore the darker elements of shamanism, desire, betrayal and friendship – spanning time and dimensions. Set in the mountainous...

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False Allegiance 16th April 2021

Someone wants Jake Parker dead. He’ll find out why, or die trying… Ex-army, ex-police, widowed husband, estranged son. Jake Parker has no family, no one to care if one of the government-contract jobs he takes goes wrong. So he’s...

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The Madwoman of Serrano 10th December 2020

TRANSLATED BY JETHRO SOUTAR The first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde, and the first to be translated into English, The Madwoman of Serrano is a magical tale of rural ideals and urban ambition,...

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Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes from West Africa and the Caribbean 5th December 2020

Songs about children playing in the schoolyard, sisters braiding each other’s hair at the beach, and parents dancing late into the night mesh together thanks to the music. A wide array of styles–nursery rhymes from Gabon, lullabies from Cape...

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Chiquinho 7th February 2020

Originally published in Portuguese in 1947, Baltazar Lopes’s Chiquinho offers a rich and compelling exploration of Cabo Verde’s unique identity. Tracing the arc of its young protagonist’s life as he approaches adulthood, the novel follows Chiquinho as he leaves...

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