A pioneering nineteenth-century novel from Brazil, and historical memoirs of South Sudan and Tahiti are the lead titles to be published by City of Words in Autumn 2025 and Spring 2026.
Bom Crioulo: The Good Black Man is a new translation into English of a pioneering novel of love between men set on a Brazilian naval corvette in the late nineteenth century. I Was a Slave is the autobiography of Macar Cicieth, aka Salim Wilson, the first south Sudanese to travel from Africa to Europe. Paul Keegan’s translation of Noa-Noa – the first parallel-text version of Gauguin’s Tahitian travel memoir – is scheduled for Spring 2026.
Also in 2026, In the City of Words, a compendium of newspaper columns by John Ryle first published in the Guardian in the 1990s. (For review copies of all titles please contact the Publisher.)
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