Forthcoming titles 2027

Bom Crioulo: The Good Black Man is a new translation into English of Adolfo Caminha’s pioneering novel of love between men, set on a Brazilian naval corvette in the late nineteenth century, a neglected masterwork of Brazilian naturalism.

I Was a Slave is a critical edition of the autobiography of Macar Cithiec, aka Salim Wilson, the first South Sudanese to travel from Africa to Europe, republished for the first time with an introduction and glossary..

Also due to appear in 2027: Paul Keegan’s translation of Noa-Noa, a parallel-text version of Paul Gauguin’s notorious Tahitian memoir; a new edition of Lord Wavell’s classic poetry anthology, Other Men’s Flowers, with an introduction by Lindsay Hilsum; and In the City of Words: Dispatches from the late 20th century, a collection of reportage, analysis and commentary by John Ryle, first published in the Guardian.