amaBooks: The Mad reviewed in The Financial Gazette

Thursday, October 9, 2025

'We are all the richer for the penetrative insights and experiences this important novel can give us.'

Read the full review by Diana Rodrigues on p31 of The Financial Gazette of 9 October 2025: (https://epaper.fingaz.co.zw/subscriber/read-mac-publication/205#Thursday%209%20October%202025/31).

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.

The Mad,The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician,This September Sun, All Come to Dust, Whatever Happened to Rick Astley? and other amaBooks titles are available in Harare through Book Fantastics (Tel: 263 77 921 0403), Bindu Books, 37 Victoria Drive, Newlands (0242 782720 or sales(at)bindu.co.zw) and at Pungwe Projects, One67 Shopping Complex, 167 Enterprise Road (Ed Mnangagwa Road) (Tel: 263 78 568 5568, pungweprojects@gmail.com).

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, The Mad can be obtained through Carnelian Heart (carnelianheartpublishing.co.uk) and 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.