amaBooks: Porcupine Press

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

UK Publishing Deal for Bryony Rheam

Zimbo Jam reports the publishing deal between 'amaBooks and Parthian Books that will result in Bryony Rheam's This September Sun being available in UK bookshops in 2011.

Bryony Rheam with Tswarelo Mothobe at the Indaba Book Cafe in Bulawayo

The article also reports that This September Sun is now available online in South Africa through www.porcupinepress.co.za and that it is available as an ebook in the USA through www.scribd.com.

The article can be found at http://www.zimbojam.com/culture/literary-news/1877-uk-publishing-deal-for-bryony-rheam.html

The UK publishing deal for This September Sun is also reported in The Zimbabwean:

http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35036:bryony-rheam-gets-uk-book-deal

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Porcupine Press Website in South Africa To Sell 'amaBooks Titles

Two 'amaBooks publications, Bryony Rheam's This September Sun and Long Time Coming: Short Writings from Zimbabwe, are now being sold online in South Africa through the Porcupine Press website: www.porcupinepress.co.za

This September Sun is now available online for the first time in South Africa, and Long Time Coming is now available at a much lower online price. Other books to follow soon.

To buy a book from amaBooks

amaBooks titles are available in Bulawayo in The Baobab Tree, 12th Avenue Extension, Bulawayo (WhatsApp/Cell +263 77 284 1717) and some at the shop at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo.

This September Sun, All Come to Dust and Whatever Happened to Rick Astley?are available in Harare through Bindu Books, 37 Victoria Drive, Newlands (0242 782720 or sales(at)bindu.co.zw) and at Pungwe Projects, 10 Stuart Avenue.

In South Africa many of the titles are at Clarkes (Long Street, Cape Town), Bridge Books (4th Ave, Linden, Johannesburg), African Flavour (Vanderbiljpark, Gauteng) Xarra Books (264 Turbit Ave, Midrand, xarrabooks.com) and Love Books (Melville, Johannesburg).

In the United Kingdom, several of our titles can be obtained through our partner publisher Parthian Books (https://www.parthianbooks.com): (Moving On, The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician, This September Sun, Where to Now?, All Come to Dust),Whatever Happened to Rick Astley?) The rights to several of our titles have been sold to publishers elsewhere: /span> Guernica Editions in North America (Textures), Al Arabi in Egypt (This September Sun), Longhorn in Kenya (This September Sun), Kachifo in Nigeria (The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician).

If you are outside Africa and would like to buy a particular book through the African Books Collective, please click on the image of the book cover below.

Otherwise, please email us at amabooksbyo(at)gmail.com.