amaBooks: The North American edition of The Mad has arrived

Monday, March 16, 2026

The North American edition of The Mad has arrived

'Time. Let us learn to give time a chance. What is the hurry after all? What is it you are rushing for? A grasshopper in a man's palm does not even know the size of a man.'

Copies of the University of Georgia Press edition of The Mad have been delivered to amaBooks.

Congratulations to author Ignatius T. Mabasa and translator J. Tsitsi Mutiti.

In North America, copies are available through https://www.ugapress.org/9780820376936/the-mad/

The United Kingdom version is available through https://carnelianheartpublishing.co.uk/product/the-mad/ or https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-Ignatius-T-Mabasa-ebook/dp/B0FRJKZJQY/

In Zimbabwe, contact Book Fantastics (263 7792 10403)

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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).

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