These new African narratives discuss topics surrounding Pan-Africanism and will remain pertinent to current
and ongoing discussions including those around migration, gender, sexuality and identity.

The book introduces the new look of BlackBird Books and lends itself to the promotion of new voices.

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We look forward to introducing you to Thando’s magical and mystical world; the last surviving descendant of the Watchers of Realms, a powerful race of light beings who watch over the Milky Way galaxy.

Dreamer

Dreamer
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We look forward to introducing you to Thando’s magical and mystical world; the last surviving descendant of the Watchers of Realms, a powerful race of light beings who watch over the Milky Way galaxy.

Dreamer

Dreamer
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A story that seeks to explore what sets individual stories apart, how they converge and collide and ultimately, the dilemma of being alive in the world today, such as it is. A riveting tale about the struggle of a mental patient to wrestle hope from the deepest pit of despair.

Sanity Prevail

Sanity Prevail
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A story that seeks to explore what sets individual stories apart, how they converge and collide and ultimately, the dilemma of being alive in the world today, such as it is. A riveting tale about the struggle of a mental patient to wrestle hope from the deepest pit of despair.

Sanity Prevail

Sanity Prevail
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Mpondo challenges the reader to think deeply about the consequences of growing up in the other South Africa, where one is constantly met with the harsh realities caused by inequality, poverty, broken homes, and the inevitable empty promises made every fourth quarter.

Things My Mother Left Me

Things My Mother Left Me
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Mpondo challenges the reader to think deeply about the consequences of growing up in the other South Africa, where one is constantly met with the harsh realities caused by inequality, poverty, broken homes, and the inevitable empty promises made every fourth quarter.

Things My Mother Left Me

Things My Mother Left Me
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The book takes the shape of being narrated through the eyes of three women. Makhosi, who seems to be angry with the world and unable to find the language to make her mother, and sister understand her ‘anger’.

All Gomorrahs Are The Same

All Gomorrahs Are The Same
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The book takes the shape of being narrated through the eyes of three women. Makhosi, who seems to be angry with the world and unable to find the language to make her mother, and sister understand her ‘anger’.

All Gomorrahs Are The Same

All Gomorrahs Are The Same
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The Invisible Strings is a story about the past bleeding into the present, the living and the dead, and the scourge of charismatic pastors.

Invisible Strings

Invisible Strings
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The Invisible Strings is a story about the past bleeding into the present, the living and the dead, and the scourge of charismatic pastors.

Invisible Strings

Invisible Strings
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If You Keep Digging is a moving collection of short stories that is an essential addition to current and on-going discussions that affect the youth including those around migration, gender, sexuality and identity.

If You Keep Digging

If You Keep Digging
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If You Keep Digging is a moving collection of short stories that is an essential addition to current and on-going discussions that affect the youth including those around migration, gender, sexuality and identity.

If You Keep Digging

If You Keep Digging
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Exhale is a queer anthology wrapped in the idea of a release, a letting go, breathing out. An orgasm. With sexual experiences from all over Africa, this anthology introduces some exciting new literary voices and brings you some of your established favourites.

Exhale

Exhale
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Exhale is a queer anthology wrapped in the idea of a release, a letting go, breathing out. An orgasm. With sexual experiences from all over Africa, this anthology introduces some exciting new literary voices and brings you some of your established favourites.

Exhale

Exhale
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A homecoming tale of a family brought together by migration and torn apart by tragedy and secrets. In a search for identity, love and acceptance - two ordinary girls travel from London to Lusaka to Lagos in order to save their family and discover their destiny.

No Be From Hia

No Be From Hia
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A homecoming tale of a family brought together by migration and torn apart by tragedy and secrets. In a search for identity, love and acceptance - two ordinary girls travel from London to Lusaka to Lagos in order to save their family and discover their destiny.

No Be From Hia

No Be From Hia
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Perfect Imperfections explores women learning about and seeking the love they feel they deserve. Whether self-love or romantic love, each woman must find the courage to believe in and hold onto that love.

Perfect Imperfections

Perfect Imperfections
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Perfect Imperfections explores women learning about and seeking the love they feel they deserve. Whether self-love or romantic love, each woman must find the courage to believe in and hold onto that love.

Perfect Imperfections

Perfect Imperfections
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Seraphin Turihamwe is a young man whose life is characterised by movement. After leaving Rwanda under duress and never feeling designed to push people like him out.

The Eternal Audience of One

The Eternal Audience of One
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Seraphin Turihamwe is a young man whose life is characterised by movement. After leaving Rwanda under duress and never feeling designed to push people like him out.

The Eternal Audience of One

The Eternal Audience of One
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The storyteller becomes the story in this psychological thriller. Bandile Ndala is a once-successful author who now struggles with substance abuse, anxiety and depression.

The Last Sentence

The Last Sentence
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The storyteller becomes the story in this psychological thriller. Bandile Ndala is a once-successful author who now struggles with substance abuse, anxiety and depression.

The Last Sentence

The Last Sentence
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This is a richly told and deeply intimate African story about the coming of age of two young women who are the same as much as they are different.

An Image in a Mirror

An Image in a Mirror
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This is a richly told and deeply intimate African story about the coming of age of two young women who are the same as much as they are different.

An Image in a Mirror

An Image in a Mirror
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The Broken River Tent is a novel that marries imagination with history. It is about the life and times of Maqoma, the Xhosa chief who was at the forefront of fighting British colonialism in the Eastern Cape during the nineteenth century.

The Broken River Tent

The Broken River Tent
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The Broken River Tent is a novel that marries imagination with history. It is about the life and times of Maqoma, the Xhosa chief who was at the forefront of fighting British colonialism in the Eastern Cape during the nineteenth century.

The Broken River Tent

The Broken River Tent
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This debut novel is nothing short of a masterpiece. Nokwakha gives birth to an albino child, and the midwife convinces her that it is a curse and she should snuff the life out of it before it takes another breath.

Nwelezelanga: The Star Child

Nwelezelanga: The Star Child
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This debut novel is nothing short of a masterpiece. Nokwakha gives birth to an albino child, and the midwife convinces her that it is a curse and she should snuff the life out of it before it takes another breath.

Nwelezelanga: The Star Child

Nwelezelanga: The Star Child
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Set mostly in the Eastern Cape (modern and historical) – in Alice and Port Elizabeth – Piggy Boy’s Blues is a novel about boundaries, the intricacies of love and how the members of the M. family sometimes fail at navigating them.

Piggy Boy’s Blues

Piggy Boy’s Blues
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Set mostly in the Eastern Cape (modern and historical) – in Alice and Port Elizabeth – Piggy Boy’s Blues is a novel about boundaries, the intricacies of love and how the members of the M. family sometimes fail at navigating them.

Piggy Boy’s Blues

Piggy Boy’s Blues
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Siren, Kuli Roberts’s gripping debut novel, is a classic rags-to-riches tale, jam-packed with drama, hot sex and reversals of fortune that will keep readers zipping through the pages until the very end.

Siren

Siren
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Siren, Kuli Roberts’s gripping debut novel, is a classic rags-to-riches tale, jam-packed with drama, hot sex and reversals of fortune that will keep readers zipping through the pages until the very end.

Siren

Siren
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