Member: Caffy

Hello,

I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.

Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.

Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.

Best wishes,

Dan Wells

posted by biblioasis at 9:35 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Cath, I haven't read The Seamstress or On Hitler's Mountain - both are fairly new acquisitions. I enjoyed looking to see which books we share!

posted by tara35 at 8:19 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2007

Hi Cath, thanks for 'friending' me here!

posted by tara35 at 8:21 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2007

Hi Cath,
thank you for joining Virago Modern Classics!
Paola :-))

posted by aluvalibri at 6:36 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2006

Hi, I got your message about Robin Hobb - thanks! I'm looking forward to reading her second book.
Cheers!
Mrs. R.

posted by MrsR at 5:32 am (EST) on Jul 26, 2006

Hello and thanks for your nice comments about my travel section.

I would say two things:

1. Go for the well-known and generally good ones - Paul Theroux, Eric Newby

2. Also pick up anything that looks interesting. I've had some great reads from second hand or older books that I knew nothing about.

3. Anthologies are good too as you can try out a few authors in one go then pick up their other stuff.

4. Sometimes good to pick a few themes - I collect around road trips across America, round the world trips of all kinds, sailing, and exploration polar and mountain. Easy to identify and nice to build that way.

Oh, that's 4 things. Hope it helps, anyway! Happy collecting!

posted by LyzzyBee at 1:46 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2006

Thanks, I'll keep my eyes open for them.

posted by Robertgreaves at 4:25 am (EST) on May 20, 2006

Well, as an anthology it's good. The stories vary, some of them are excellent and I'd like to see more by the same authors, others are very so-so.

posted by Robertgreaves at 9:24 pm (EST) on May 18, 2006

Hi, I see we're the only ones with Hugh Greene's Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.

posted by Robertgreaves at 8:30 pm (EST) on May 15, 2006

Hooray! We now share five books! ;-) I must read more Terry Pratchett. I like him :-)

posted by scarletslippers at 9:07 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2006