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February may
be the shortest month, but wow, has it been a busy one! We are
steadily releasing new titles, which you'll be hearing all about in
this month's newsletter. And because of publishing's constant eye on
the future, we're also working hard on titles for the next year and
beyond (and we can't wait to start sharing some of those with you!
Stay tuned!).
The past month has also been a busy one for many of our authors. This
month's newsletter features a round-up of some of the fantastic
things our authors have been up to, plus you can learn more about two
of our upcoming releases, and finally, the return of our occasional
feature—the not-so-new release—a chance to discover a title you may
have missed.
Happy reading!
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Catalyst Authors in the News
Joanne Hichens
is interviewed in The Big Thrill magazine! She talks with Michael
Sears about her new release Divine
Justice, the first release in her PI Rae Valentine
thriller series. Joanne was also a guest blogger on Murder is Everywhere
where she explores her writing process for the novel.
Huge congratulations to Barbara
Boswell! Her book And
Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism
(Wits University Press) has been longlisted by The National Institute for
the Humanities and Social Sciences in South Africa for
their 2021 awards. We are proud to be the US publisher for Barbara's
novel Unmaking Grace. The
National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences has also
longlisted the fiction anthology Joburg
Noir (Jacana Media), which features contributions by two
Catalyst authors—Sifiso Mzobe (Young
Blood) and Yewande Omotoso (Bom Boy). Congratulations,
all!
Speaking of Sifiso Mzobe,
his forthcoming release, Young
Blood, was included on CrimeReads
list of "25+ New Releases from Black
Authors to Keep You Reading All Year Long."
There's a great new review of Siphiwe
Gloria Ndlovu's novel The Theory of Flight in Rupture magazine!
Reviewer John David Harding writes, "[W]hen I reached the
final pages of Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's The Theory of Flight, I recognized
that I had read something truly rare: an intelligent novel with a big
heart." Read the full review here. Reviewers
have also been praising Siphiwe's most recent release, The History of Man.
Kate Sidley of The
Sunday Times (South Africa) calls it "brilliantly conceived." The History of Man
is out now in South Africa, and we're pleased to be the US publisher
for it. Look for more information about this title later this year!
Congratulations to Futhi Ntshingila!
Her novel We Kiss Them with Rain has just had
it's fifth (!!) release, this time in French. It joins the original
South African release (under the title Do Not Go Gentle), two Portugese
versions (Brazilian and Mozambican), and our US version. The
Francophones among us can read more about the newest version here.
And speaking of Francophones, congratulations to translator Ivanka Hahnenberger.
The book Catherine's
War (HarperAlley) was recently named a 2021 Honor Book
for the Batchelder Award. The award honors "a children’s
book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating
in a country other than the United States and in a language other
than English and subsequently translated into English for publication
in the United States during the preceding year." Ivanka shares
this honor with author Julia Billet and illustrator Claire
Fauve. Ivanka is the translator for our forthcoming graphic novel
release Madame Livingstone,
which you'll be hearing more about in the coming weeks.
And remember, we also share news about Catalyst authors (and so much
more!) in our weekly round-ups of bookish news at our blog. Read the most recent installment here.
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Coming Soon
Young Blood by Sifiso Mzobe,
out April 13: A coming-of-age/crime novel set in the South African
township of Umlazi. Candid and unapologetic, Young Blood
centers on Sipho, a 17-year-old who has fallen deeper and deeper into
a life of crime as part of a carjacking syndicate. Sipho finds out
how far he can push his luck before the damage is irrevocable—and the
consequences deadly. The book was included on CrimeReads' list
of "Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021;" Tsitsi
Dangarembga, author of the Booker-Prize-nominated This Mournable Body,
named it as one of her ten favorite books in Vulture;
and Paul Harding, the Pulitizer-Prize-winning author of Tinkers, writes,
"Sifiso Mzobe has written a compassionate, unsentimental, and
artful portrait of a young man on the threshold of trying to preserve
his life and his humanity by the very means that will almost
inevitably destroy both.” The South African release of the novel also
earned Sifiso several awards, including the Wole Soyinka Prize for
Literature in Africa.
You're a Star,
Lolo by Niki Daly, out May 11: The
third book in author/illustrator Niki
Daly's Lolo
series for beginning solo readers. Featuring four
easy-to-read stories, the Lolo
series invites young readers into the life and adventures of
fun-loving, clever, and curious Lolo, a young girl living in South
Africa. Along with her mother and grandmother, Gogo, she can always
find a way to make the best out of any situation—even when things
don’t go as planned. In You’re
a Star, Lolo, join Lolo as she makes her mom an
extra-special soup, goes on vacation with her Gogo, and even tracks
down the scary Ghorra-Ghorra-Hoooaaah-Bwoooooo-Monster sound she
keeps hearing at night!
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Not-so-new Releases
Books from our catalog to discover and love at any
time
One thing that's so great about books is that they make travel
possible even when it isn't. When we're able to travel the world
again, we'll be finding roads and pathways to exciting new places, or
like Henry Trotter, author of the book Cape Town: A Place Between, we'll be
discovering the magic of places we've called home for years.
Henry's book is the first installment in our Intimate Geographies
Series, a collection of books that explore the heart of places around
the globe. Combining memoir, history, and travel guide, these short
books serve as a city companion, and are just as illuminating for the
physical traveller as the armchair one. Henry also serves as editor
for the Intimate Geographies Series, and you'll be seeing more
volumes covering places like Soweto, Zurich, and Lagos in the
upcoming years.
Learn more about the
Intimate Geographies Series in this introduction by Henry
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