Forthcoming Publications
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‘I breathed in the splendid, pure air. From now on I was another man.’ ‘[The Tahitians] taught me many things about the science of living… and about the art of being happy. Above all they made me know myself better.’ Memoir / Travel Journal Noa-Noa The Tahitian Journal Paul Gauguin Forthcoming 2027 Translated by Paul…
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‘I know from personal acquaintance that [Wavell] was a great man. This is not a term I use easily.’T.S. Eliot ‘Other Men’s Flowers opened my eyes to the power of verse.’Judi Dench, The New York Times ‘His great love and solace was poetry, and it’s for one book that he will be remembered: Other Men’s…
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‘The ground was scarred by fire. My father came to us with his leopard-skin torn and his ostrich plumes bent and broken, snatching up my brother and gripping me by the hand, taking cover in the glare of the flames. Our land was devastated, warriors slain, women and children carried into captivity, yoked like cattle…’…
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‘These are exceptionally interesting pieces, as fresh and illuminating as when they first appeared. Factual, rooted in event and experience, yet they read like beautiful short stories.’Ian Buruma ‘John Ryle’s writing is compulsively readable: timeless reportage on an eclectic span of issues, erudite and prescient, full of surprising facts and observations.’Lindsey Hilsum ‘John Ryle’s voice…
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‘Grim and profoundly subversive… the world’s first modern gay novel.’Edward Lacey ‘Bom-Crioulo… a powerful, living character, one of Brazilian literature’s tragic heroes.’Robert Howes ‘Too daring to be accepted, too brilliant to be forgiven, Caminha antagonized everyone who mattered, and his work — polemic, provocative, misunderstood — fell into an abyss of silence.’Raul de Sá Barbosa…
Previously Published
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Letters from Isohe
‘If you read no other book this year, read this one. Liz Hodgkin goes to one of the riskiest parts of Africa to teach. In her magical letters home, she shows how the world can be made a better place – for all of us.’Miriam Margolyes Memoir Letters from Isohe Life on the edge in…
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Out of Our Hands
‘An intimate portrait of the thriving world of potters, wood-carvers, weavers, dyers, sword-smiths and glass-blowers in the northernmost island of Japan.’ Reportage Out of Our Hands Encounters with the craftsmen and craftswomen of Hokkaido Willie Jones Published 2022 169 pages. 14 illustrations. Map. ISBN 978-1-9160783-3-8 Out of Our Hands is a lyrical account of the…
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The Amulet
‘A memoir of rare beauty’Nuruddin Farah ‘The book held me spellbound’Magdi el Gizouli ‘Mesmerising… compellingly told’Robert Irwin, The Times Literary Supplement ‘Revealing and interesting’Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Memoir The Amulet My childhood and youth as a nomad in Sudan Hamid Dirar Published 2022 323 pages. Map. Genealogy. Glossary. Gazetteer. ISBN…
