In an unspecified setting, the stream-of-consciousness narrative of this cult novel traces the fortunes of a group of anarchists in revolt against a military-fascist capitalist opposition. The protagonist is photojournalist Chris, whose camera lens becomes the device through which the plot is cleverly unravelled. In Dambudzo Marechera's second experimental novel, he parodies African nationalist & racial identifications as part of an argument that notions of an 'essential African identity' were often invoked to authorise a number of totalitarian regimes across Africa. Such irreverent, avant-garde literature was criticised upon publication in Zimbabwe in 1980, & Black Sunlight was banned on charges of ' Euromodernism' & as a challenge to the concept of nation-building in the newly independent country. ...

January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor
- covert stammerer & reluctant poet
- anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater

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A tale of the cruelties that took place during the 1947 partition of India, ” Black Taj” is a tragic story about young love s struggle to cross the Indian caste divide. An only child, Simi grows up comfortably in the city of Atmapuri enjoying certainty in her future ahead. Then, unexpectedly, everything changes. Her city, overtaken by the riots that have periodically gripped India since Britain s abrupt withdrawal, is threatening to fall apart along the lines of religion, caste, & community. Shortly before turning twenty-five, Simi meets a wonderful young man. Although he was also raised in Atmapuri, his caste means that he is in many ways from a different world. Without warning, Simi faces difficult new choices but when the past is always present, it can be hard to break free. Against a backdrop of monsoons & heat waves, shanty towns & expensive bungalows, love & tradition, & religious conflict & social upheaval, Simi s life will change forever.” ...

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor Engl&... They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married & buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history. ...

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard & the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor Engl&... They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married & buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history. ...

` Elisa said Yes & I said Yes. We said Yes in all the European languages. Yes. We said yes we said yes, yes to vague but powerful things, we said yes to hope which has to be vague, we said yes to love which is always blind, we smiled & said yes without blinking.` (`A Better Way to Live`) ----------- How does love change us? & how do we change ourselves for love
- or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a broken man; in London, a bird mimics an old-fashioned telephone; in adl&, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour & curiosity, stories about what it means to live & love, together & alone.
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John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian isl&, listening to the rain on the roof & believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something he`s already done. In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own troubled history. They begin an affair
- but can he allow himself to get involved when he knows this might put her at risk? Moving between Europe during the cold war, California & the Civil Rights struggle, & Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 & the decades of military dictatorship that follow, Black Water is an epic novel that explores some of the darkest events of recent world history through the story of one troubled man. Black Water confirms Louise Doughty`s position as one of our most important contemporary novelists. She writes with fierce intelligence & a fine-tuned sense of moral ambiguity that makes her fiction resonate in the reader`s mind long after the final page has been turned.
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John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian isl&, listening to the rain on the roof & believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something he`s already done. In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own troubled history. They begin an affair
- but can he allow himself to get involved when he knows this might put her at risk? Moving between Europe during the cold war, California & the Civil Rights struggle, & Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 & the decades of military dictatorship that follow, Black Water is an epic novel that explores some of the darkest events of recent world history through the story of one troubled man. Black Water confirms Louise Doughty`s position as one of our most important contemporary novelists. She writes with fierce intelligence & a fine-tuned sense of moral ambiguity that makes her fiction resonate in the reader`s mind long after the final page has been turned.
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On a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife`s birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora`s Box. Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins & resolved to make a fresh start. His impulsive act out on the bayou is heroic, but it puts Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that could cost him is practice, his family & even his life. Before he can untangle the mystery that stretches to the highest reaches of corporate power, he must confront the demons of his past. A provocative thriller with an exhilarating climax, ” Black Water Rising” marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent. ...

Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, & nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it`s officially announced that the world will end in one year, & life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird. While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, & keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a sprawling & meta-textual exploration to complement her promises of maturity & responsibility. But as she struggles to make queer love & art without succumbing to self-destructive vice, the boundaries between storytelling & everyday living begin to blur, & Michelle wonders how much she`ll have to compromise her artistic process if she`s going to properly ride out doomsday. ...