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Thanks so much.I didn't know that rule.
Just checking in on the inclusion of this new title. Thanks
Thank you Liralen. I wasn't sure what made some of them "work" and others not? There was no difference between the ways I uploaded the adding details. I'll try the bumping method.
Just checking in on the inclusion of this new edition update. Thanks
Hellolast year I added 11 x new titles/editions for Karavan Press and only 3 are visible online. Please could you let me know about these below -
New titles:
Sipho Banda - A Crowded Lonely walk
Dawn Garisch - What remains
Diane Awerbuck - Inside Your Body there are Flowers
Frankie Murrey - Everyone Dies
Sindiwes Gift- compiled by Thokozile Sayedwa and Nancy Richards
Striving-for-social-equity edited-by - Joy-Watson and Ogochukwu Nzewi
New editions of
Nick Mulgrew- Stations
Martinique Stilwell - Thinking Up a Hurricane
* Title: A Crowded Lonely Walk* Author: Sipho Banda
* ISBN: 978-1-7764064-4-9
* Publisher: Karavan Press
* Publication date: March 2023
* Format: paperback
* Page count: 84
* Book link: https://karavanpress.com/2023/03/08/k...
* Description:
Life
has taken
a half-step forward,
leaning against the history
of my past
“This poetry collection depicts true stories of ordinary black people living in the supposedly ‘New South Africa’. Banda’s poems portray stains of colonisation even on the postcolonial times.”
– Kwazi Ndlangisa, winner of The Book Behind Award 2021 and the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award 2021, and author of Collecting Self
“Sipho Banda’s poetry witnesses a variety of occluded and overlooked lives, often foregrounding rural existences and the precarious life of farm dwellers. He is able to describe and critique socio-political realities through poetry that is layered with gentle irony and laced with images which grip and map the reader’s awareness of the custodian.”
– Kyle Allan, editor of New Coin and author of House Without Walls and The Space Between Us
Thank you. I'll re-post Sipho Banda's new book title.
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* Title: The First Law of Sadness* Author: Nick Mulgrew
* ISBN: 978-0-6397-7840-2
* Publisher: Karavan Press
* Publication date: May 2023
* Format: paperback
* Page count: 186
* Book link: https://karavanpress.com/2023/05/02/k...
* Description :
Mostly I hope there is no heaven,
just so you’ll never see how I’m doing.
Audacious, imaginative tales of killer eagles and paintball guns, tattoo removal and animal sanctuaries, pornographers and biltong makers; of a South Africa concurrently too strange and too familiar for comfort.
With trademark poetic and spiritual flair, these stories combine comedy and grief, spectacle, sex, and nostalgia.
WINNER of the 2018 NADINE GORDIMER AWARD
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
“Full of the possible becoming probable, of the mundane made massive, of leviathans glimpsed out of the corner of an eye.”
– Russell Grant, Mail & Guardian
“An accomplished writer [who] handles both the horror and banality of experience.”
– Diane Awerbuck, Sunday Times
(First published in Cape Town by David Philip Publishers in 2017)
* Title: Stations* Author: Nick Mulgrew
* ISBN: 978-0-6397-7839-6
* Publisher: Karavan Press
* Publication date: May 2023
* Format: paperback
* Page count: 182
* Book link: https://karavanpress.com/2023/05/02/k...
* Description:
Everything was familiar,
but not enough to be comforting.
Fourteen rich and entangled stories set on the cosmopolitan Southern African coast and its hinterland.
Journey on broken-family vacations, or into canefields where clouds of birds fill the sky. Join a postman on his jaunt into the weird world of the ultra rich, or descend into a haunting colonial purgatory.
Meet people from all walks of life as they try to navigate them, stuck between a fragmented present and an unspeakable past.
WINNER of the 2016 THOMAS PRINGLE PRIZE
SHORTLISTED for the 2015 WHITE REVIEW PRIZE
“One never gets bored in the company of Nick Mulgrew.”
– Jean-Paul Beaumier, Nuit Blanche
(First published in Cape Town by David Philip Publishers in 2016)
* Title: Thinking Up a Hurricane * Author: Martinique Stilwell
* ISBN: 978-1-7764581-6-5
* Publisher: Karavan Press
* Publication date: October 2023
* Format: paperback
* Page count: 365
*Book link: https://karavanpress.com/2023/10/11/n...
* Description:
In the spring of 1977, Frank Stilwell launched Vingila, 17 tons of welded together 11-millimeter steel plates. Never one to be daunted by a challenge or resisted in any way, he took his nine-year-old twins Robert and Martinique out of school, persuaded his wife Maureen that they would all learn to sail and cope with life on the open seas as they went, and prepared to follow his dream of circumnavigating the world.
In this unique coming-of-age memoir, Martinique Stilwell’s recounting of her true-life gypsy childhood is poignant, funny and heartbreaking. With the wisdom and innocence of a child’s point of view, it is a powerful and tender story of physical and emotional adversity, of family dysfunction and the ties that bind, and of the shackles and exhilarating freedom of growing up different.
Praise for Thinking Up a Hurricane:
‘With Thinking Up a Hurricane, Stilwell joins the ranks of great ocean-crossing storytellers like Robin Lee Graham, Webb Chiles and Joshua Slocum.’ – Sunday Times
‘Thinking Up a Hurricane is a riveting tale of adventure and bravery.’ – Brian Joss, The Tatler
‘This is a travel narrative of the highest order … it offers a glimpse into the little-known gypsy-esque world of strange folk who head off to sea for years at a time.’ – Cameron Ewart-Smith, Getaway
‘A remarkable account of a storm-tossed childhood.’ – Nic Dawes
* Title - Striving for Social Equity* Editors - Joy Watson & Ogochukwu Nzewi
* ISBN - 978-1-7764581-7-2
* Publisher - Karavan Press
* Publication date - September 2023
* Format - paperback
* Page count - 248
* Book link - https://karavanpress.com/2023/09/01/k...
* Description -
Dear Readers,
We’re putting this precious book into your hands. May the stories in it touch your hearts and your sense of patriotism – may it inspire you to be a part of changing the gross inequities in our society. May it grant you grace in truly ‘seeing’ others who are different. May it inspire you to reimagine what our future can look like. We have a beautiful country, let’s find ways of saving it.
Yours in striving for social equity,
Joy Watson and Ogochukwu Nzewi
August 2023
CONTRIBUTORS:
Joy Watson | Oma Zewi | Sibahle Serpent Daniel | Liberty Matthyse | Marc Smit | Kgothatso Mokgele | Mishka Wazar | Thabiso Zulu | Lenora Mars | Kirsten Deane | Cassandra Roxburgh | Sindiswa Mkhwanazi | Zazele Mabaso | Anita Gcolotela | Zamasomi Precious Mbonambi | Sinelizwi Ncaluka | Ben Uys | Jos-lene Benekema | Anastasia Witbooi | Irvin Kinnes | Carmine Rustin | Ali Rhida Khan | Sydney Gololo | Thandokazi Mshumpela | Zuko Yigi | Mandisa Roji | Lulama Portia Ngoqwana | Vuyokazi Dyosi | Frankie Murrey | Glenda Tambu Muzenda | Joline Young | Sonwabile Mfecane | Lerato Mathonsi
Cover illustration: Zoe Maralack
* Title - The Bitterness of Olives* Author - Andrew Brown
* ISBN - 978-1-7764581-2-7
* Publisher - Karavan Press
* Publication date - September 2023
* Format - paperback
* Page count - 304
* Book link - https://karavanpress.com/2023/08/31/k...
* Description -
‘Why can you not be friends anymore?’
It was the story of his country, he supposed. Perhaps they could have been friends. Perhaps they were once. The reasons were complex, full of feeling, disappointment, resentment. And, of course, betrayal. This was the Middle East after all.
Avi Dahan, a retired detective mourning his beloved wife in Tel Aviv, and Khalid Mansour, a Palestinian doctor confronting the precarious reality of living in Gaza City, are still reeling from the political fallout that jeopardised their delicate friendship. When a mysterious corpse scarred by history and forbidden love shows up in Khalid’s emergency room, he reaches out to Avi for help. Though the detective is the only one who might be able to assist, he is the last person on earth to agree …
Did it really matter? In the face of chaos, was it important how she had died? That was the guidance he needed from Avi now. He needed to understand that question: did it matter anymore? Was it of any significance, how you died in a war?
* Title - Sindiwe's Gift* Compiled by - Thokozile Sayedwa and Nancy Richards
* ISBN - 978-1-7764581-1-0
* Publisher - Karavan Press
* Publication date - 27 August 2023
* Format - paperback
* Page count - 192
* Book link - https://karavanpress.com/2023/08/31/k...
* Description -
In celebration of Sindiwe Magona’s 80th birthday, a collection of tributes from friends, family and colleagues on how this literary icon has touched their lives.
Her strong message to all of us is that no matter what life throws at us, it is possible to push through adversity and do what we never imagined we could. Only if that adversity – those rocks – does not make us give up on how we think of ourselves. She mined for her gold and found it. And it is not her gold only while others claw at stones. It is a gold that she offers for all of us to grow rich on. — Zubeida Jaffer
CONTRIBUTORS:
Finuala Dowling • Thokozile Sayedwa • Mamphela Ramphele • Penelope Magona-Dano • Lindy Wilson • Bergliot Dallas • Jean Williams • Marie Philip • Lyndall Gordon • Mamatebele Hoohlo • Rajendra Chetty • Renée Schatteman • Rosemary Gray • Tanya Barben • Kamoji Wachira • Tessa Dowling • Nigel Vermaas • Sarah Davies Cordova with Hélène M. Coutrot and Sophie Barthélémy • Carol Lindsay Shore • Sara CF de Gouveia • Motlatsi Motsoasele • Maralin Vanrenen • Dianne Shober • Elinor Sisulu • Helen Moffett • Margaret Clough • Zubeida Jaffer • Janice O’Brien • Nancy Richards • Theo Krynauw • Unathi Kapa • Antjie Krog
* Title - Everyone Dies* Author - Frankie Murrey
* ISBN - 978-1-7764581-3-4
* Publisher - Karavan Press
* Publication date - 8th September 2023
* Format - paperback
* Page count - 102
* Book link - https://karavanpress.com/2023/08/23/k...
* Description -
I consider all the words I have access to and finally write ‘help’ and slip it under the door of the empty room, along with a blank page and a pen.
Late at night, I count down from the scar in my memory to where I am now, to where I will one day be. Four months today. In another six years and eight months, no part of me will have touched any part of you. And then I think, I will be fully recovered. Re-covered. Sometimes while I count, I cry. Very briefly. It means nothing.
* Title: Inside your body there are flowers* Author: Diane Awerbuck
* ISBN: 9-781776-458141
* Publisher: Karavan Press
* Publication date: 8 September 2023
* Format: Paperback
* Page count: 204
* Book link: https://karavanpress.com/2023/08/15/k...
* Description:
What do I know?
I know white people. I know loss. I know arrogance and disaster, natural and unnatural. I know the mythical sometimes crosses in and descends on us in our extremity like heat mist, like haze.
Let me write my story about the man Malan, who is contracted to build a dam in Zimbabwe.
Let me write about the collapse of our projects, of our expectations and desires, and about the things that are given to us in their place. The gifts of suffering. The gifts of apocalypse. Let me write about his little boy who died before him, about mermaids and sour worms and the great snake, Nehushtan, about all the creatures who crowd around us unseen on the earth.
All you red-faced men of my youth, with your moustaches and your beer boeps and your vulnerable eyes: here is your story.
“Mesmerising, at times shocking, and teeming with honesty, wit, razor-sharp prose and gasp-inducing insights, it’s no exaggeration to say that this is the finest and bravest collection of short stories I’ve ever read.”
– Sarah Lotz
Title: What RemainsAuthor: Dawn Garisch
Description:
In the beginning there is nothing. Breath stirring a blank sea. Vague shapes beneath the surface. An old blurred bone, a chiselled stone, clues in the midden.
There’s that deep feeling, the yearning, slow burn. Something incomplete or missing insists, lodged like a wedge. Something tugs, aligns, sets you facing a specific direction − discovers a woman lying in a road, another standing beside her dead mother, a man who finds salvation in a bottle, one who feels invincible, risking everything, and one who dies thirty years after an attempt on his life.
The writer traverses the dream, her fingers sleepwalking over the keyboard. Seeking momentary relief, the feeling of completion. Even as the hand lifts to write the first line, there is no clear idea of what will emerge. Look around. You think we intended this?
About the Author:
DAWN GARISCH is an author and medical doctor. She is a founding member of the Life Righting Collective (liferighting.com), running writing courses. She has had seven novels, two collections of poetry, short stories, a non-fiction work and a memoir published. She has had five plays and a short film produced, and has written for television. Her poem ‘Blood Delta’ won the DALRO prize (2007); Trespass was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa (2010); ‘Miracle’ won the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Award (2011); and ‘What to Do About Ricky’ won the Short.Sharp.Stories competition (2013). Her novel Accident was longlisted for the Barry Ronge Sunday Times Fiction Award (2018), and her novel Breaking Milk was shortlisted for the Sunday Times/CNA Fiction Award (2021) and will be published in the UK by Héloïse Press in 2024. Her second collection of poetry Disturbance came out in 2020. What Remains is her first collection of short stories.
Dawn Garisch, author, poet, playwright and medical doctor, writes about human relationships with extraordinary empathy, humour and courage. The twenty stories in this marvellous collection are no exception. Her medical knowledge, adventurous spirit and bold frankness shine through tales about life’s great challenges, from conception to death, while her playwright’s use of dialogue evokes the voices and spirits of her characters. These are stories to savour and treasure.
– Mignonne Breier
ISBN: 978-1-7764581-0-3
Published by: Karavan Press
Publication date: 17 August 2023
No. of pages: 224
Format: paperback
Book link:
https://karavanpress.com/2023/08/08/k...
Title: afterwards Author/poet: Kerry Hammerton
Description:
afterwards is a thrilling collection of poems that takes us in a series of lyrical bounds from the poet’s ancestry in Wales to her birth in England to the country and spirit animals she inhabits now.
“In these provocative poems Kerry Hammerton probes with a ruthless acuity how society constructs and represents self and women. Her poems also explore the lived-in-ness of the body with its desires, its beauty and even its joys. Ranging from lyrical poetry to flash-fiction this experimental collection is richly satisfying.”
– Kobus Moolman
Book page:
https://karavanpress.com/2023/03/08/k...
Published by : Karavan Press
Publication date: April 2023
Format: paperback
ISBN: 978-0-6397-2219-1
No. of pages: 66
Title: A Crowded Lonely Walk Author: Sipho Banda
Description:
This poetry collection depicts true stories of ordinary black people living in the supposedly ‘New South Africa’. Banda’s poems portray stains of colonisation even on the postcolonial times.”
“Sipho Banda’s poetry witnesses a variety of occluded and overlooked lives, often foregrounding rural existences and the precarious life of farm dwellers. He is able to describe and critique socio-political realities through poetry that is layered with gentle irony and laced with images which grip and map the reader’s awareness of the custodian.”
– Kyle Allan, editor of New Coin and author of House Without Walls and The Space Between Us
Format: Paperback
Published by Karavan Press
Pages: 84
Publication date: March 2023
ISBN: 978-1-7764064-4-9
Book link: https://karavanpress.com/2023/03/08/k...
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