Forthcoming Publications
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Bom Crioulo: The Good Black Man (1895) is a pioneering novel of love between an escaped black slave conscripted into the Brazilian navy and a white cabin-boy. Set in the last decades of the nineteenth century…
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Before City of Words became a publishing house it was a newspaper column, written by John Ryle, published in the Guardian from 1995 to 1999…
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Noa-Noa is Gauguin’s journal of his sojourn in Tahiti and his marriage to a young Tahitian. Paul Keegan’s new translation…
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Born in what is now South Sudan, Macar Cithiec (Hatashil Masha Kathish) was taken in slavery as a boy and sold, as he wrote, “for six yards of calico”. Escaping captivity in the 1870s, he became one of the first from the south of Sudan to travel to Europe…
Previously Published
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Hamid Dirar | The Amulet
“It was my early existence as a nomad, harsh and sweet by turns, that made me what I am,” writes Hamid Dirar. ”Under my lab overalls, my early life in nomad encampments is inscribed on every part of my body: a dog’s bite; a scar left by the slash of a cutlass; and scores of…
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Liz Hodgkin | Letters from Isohe
In 2011, following the independence of South Sudan, Elizabeth Hodgkin – a historian and human rights researcher – taught in a village in the remote Dongotono Mountains, joining South Sudanese colleagues in their struggle to keep the school open…
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Willie Jones | Out of our Hands
Out of Our Hands is a lyrical account of the craftspeople and makers of Hokkaido, Japan’s wildest island, an intimate portrait of a thriving world of potters, wood-carvers, weavers, dyers, sword-smiths and glass-blowers.
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