Young Blood is a multi-award winning coming-of-age/crime novel exploring a South African teenager’s descent into the criminal underworld. It was named one of the most anticipated crime novels of 2021 by CrimeReads, and Booker Prize shortlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga (This Mournable Body) listed it as one of her ten favorite books in Vulture.
Jacob Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor, and teacher. His crime fiction novel, The Bone Readers won the inaugural Jhalak Prize in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is the Associate Fiction Editor at Peepal Tree Press, and the editor of Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories.
In Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay, Shanna Greene Benjamin traces the life and legacy of University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Nellie Y. McKay, the literary scholar who made an indelible mark on higher education by creating space for Black literature, Black scholars, and Black feminist thought.Â
In And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism, Barbara Boswell examines the novels of Black South African women writers during and after apartheid as a site of theory production. Boswell's work argues that Black women's fiction could and should be read as a subversive site of knowledge production.Â
Barbara is also the author of the award-winning novel Unmaking Grace, which we published in the US in 2020. The story is an intimate portrayal of violence, both personal and political, and its legacy on one person’s life. It meditates on the long shadow cast by personal trauma, showing the inter-generational imprint of violence and loss on people’s lives. Kirkus praised it as "A smart, compassionate portrayal of one woman’s quest to end the cycle of violence."
