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Akashic Books London Rights List 2018

FICTION

A Student of History a novel by nina RevoyR

Bellini and the Sphinx a cRime fiction novel by tony bellotto

Bivouac a novel by Kwame Dawes

131 Different Things a novella by ZachaRy lipeZ with photos by nicK ZinneR (yeah yeah yeahs) Design by stacy waKefielD

NONFICTION

Fame by woRlDwiDe tv staR Justine bateman

Now You See the Sky a memoiR by cathaRine h. muRRay; the Debut Release fRom ann hooD’s new impRint, gRacie belle

CHILDREN’S FICTION

Liza Jane & the Dragon a chilDRen’s pictuRe booK by new yoRK times best-selling authoR lauRa lippman; illustRations by Kate samwoRth

contact: johanna ingalls | [email protected]

Akashic Books | London 2018 | Featured Titles

A Student of Historya novel by Nina Revoyr

A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable power, and the

ways the present is continually shaped by the past.

BOOK DETAILS: 5 March, 2019, 240 pages; literary fiction

COMP TITLES: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

AWARDS: Southland: Lambda Literary Award, American Library Associ-ation’s Stonewall Honor Award; Wingshooters: Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award, Midwest Booksellers Choice Award; The Age of Dreaming: Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

PREVIOUS LICENSING DEALS: The Age of Dreaming: France (Phébus), Italy (Casini), Japan (PHP Institute), Spain (Paidós/Planeta); Southland: France (Phébus), Greece (Electra), Japan (Fusosha)

AKASHIC’S SALES FIGURES: Southland: 35,000 (the title remains one of our strongest backlist sellers since publication in 2003); Wingshooters: 25,000

Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W—, the heir to an oil fortune, he sees it at first simply as a source of extra cash. But as he grows closer to the iconoclastic, charming, and feisty Mrs. W—, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth far different from his racially mixed, blue-collar beginnings.

Putting aside his half-finished dissertation, Rick sets up office in Mrs. W—’s grand Bel Air mansion and begins to transcribe her journals—which document an old Los Angeles not described in his history books. He also accompanies Mrs. W— to venues frequented by the descendants of the land and oil bar-ons who built the city. One evening, at an event, he meets Fiona Morgan—the elegant scion of an old steel family—who takes an interest in his studies. Irresistibly drawn to Fiona, he agrees to help her with a project of questionable merit in the hopes he’ll win her favor.

A Student of History explores both the beginnings of Los Angeles and the pres-ent-day dynamics of race and class. It offers a window into the usually hidden world of high society, and the influence of historic families on current events. Like Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby, it features, in Rick Nagano, a young man of modest means who is navigating a world where he doesn’t belong.

NINA REVOYR is the author of five previous novels, including The Age of Dreaming, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Southland, a Los An-geles Times best seller and “Best Book” of 2003; and Wingshooters, which won an Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award and was selected by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.” Revoyr lives and works in Los Angeles

Akashic controls world rights; PDF available upon request.


Akashic Books | London 2018 | Nonfiction

Fameby Justine Bateman

A passionate and critical analysis of the life cycle of Fame, from worldwide TV star and film producer/director Justine Bateman.

BOOK DETAILS: 2 Oct. 2018; 220 pgs. w/24 color photos; nonfiction

HIGHLIGHTS: Bateman has been nominated for 2 Emmys & a Golden Globe; at its height in the 1980s, Family Ties was watched by approximately 62 million people in the US

PRAISE FOR FAME: “Justine Bateman was famous before selfies replaced autographs, and bags of fan mail gave way to Twitter shitstorms. And here’s the good news: she took notes along the way. Justine steps through the looking glass of her own celebrity, shatters it, and pieces together, beyond the shards and splinters, a reflection of her true self. The transformation is breathtaking. Revelatory and raucous, fascinating and frightening, Fame is a hell of a ride.” —Michael J. Fox, actor, author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future

“If you’ve ever dreamed of being famous someday, you need to read this book. If you’ve ever called a celebrity, a ‘has-been’ or a ‘flash in the pan’ on social media, then you really need to read this book . . . Justine Bateman has crafted the most compelling and comprehensive treatise on the nature of

fame that you’re ever likely to read. —Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One

Entertainment shows, magazines, websites, and other channels continuously report the latest sightings, heartbreaks, and triumphs of the famous to a seemingly insatiable public. Millions of people go to enormous lengths to achieve Fame. Fame is woven into our lives in ways that may have been unimaginable in years past.

And yet, is Fame even real? Contrary to tangible realities, Fame is one of those “realities” that we, as a society, have made. Why? What is it about Fame that drives us to spend so much time, money, and focus to create the framework that maintains its health?

Mining decades of experience, writer, director, producer, and actress Justine Bateman writes a visceral, intimate look at the experience of Fame. Combining the internal reality-shift of the famous, theories on the public’s behavior at each stage of a famous person’s career, and the experiences of other famous performers, Bateman takes the reader inside and outside the emotions of Fame. The book includes twenty-four color photographs to highlight her analysis.

JUSTINE BATEMAN is a writer, producer, director, and actress with an impressive resume in entertainment that includes the eighties hit TV show Family Ties, as well as Satisfaction, Men Behaving Badly, The TV Set, Desperate Housewives, Californication, and many more. Her work has earned her two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination. Her writing has been published by DAME, Salon, and McSweeney’s.

Akashic controls World English rights; PDF available upon request


Akashic Books | London 2018 | Children’s Picture Books

Liza Jane & the Dragonby Laura Lippman, illustrated by Kate Samworth

BOOK DETAILS: 2 Oct. 2018, 32 pages w/full color illustrations, ages 1–7.

COMP TITLES: The Paperback Princess by Robert Munsch, Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

SALES: Lippman’s adult novels have been licensed to: the UK, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, Poland, Israel, France, Norway, Germany, Russia, Korea, Brazil, Denmark, Romania, Italy, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, Portugal, China, Indonesia, and Croatia

AWARDS: Lippman’s adult novels have won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Shamus, Nero Wolfe, Gumshow, and Barry awards.

Liza Jane believed she could find better parents. So she fired her mom and dad and hired the first applicant who came to the door—what could possibly go wrong? And at first everything was fun. The dragon did whatever Liza Jane wanted him to do. But it turned out the dragon had only one response to all problems—opening his mouth and belching fire. Suddenly, people were scared of Liza Jane. The pizza delivery man didn’t want to come to her house. No one wanted to play with her. And all that fire was very bad for the furniture. Could Liza Jane have been wrong about what kind of qualities she wanted in a parent?

Laura Lippman is the New York Times best-selling, award-winning writer of more than twenty crime fiction novels. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her husband, David Simon, and her very smart daughter, Georgia Rae.

Sea Creatures from the Skyby Ricardo Cortés

from the illustrator of the New York Times #1 Best Seller, Go the F**k to Sleep

BOOK DETAILS: 3 April 2018, 48 pgs. w/full color illustrations, ages: 1–7

COMP TITLES: The Blue Whale by Jenni Desmond; Smart about Sharks by Owen Davey

PREVIOUS RIGHTS SALES: Go the F**k to Sleep: licensed to over 35 territories; full list available upon request; Seriously, You Have to Eat: Australia and Serbia.

Sea Creatures from the Sky is a gorgeously illustrated, children’s picture book from the New York Times best-selling illustrator of Seriously, You Have to Sleep, and the adult gift book, Go the F**k to Sleep. Cortés’s stunning seascapes fol-low the story of an unnamed shark who has a story to share with its shark friends about creatures who live above the ocean. Strange-looking creatures who move across the ocean in boats. But after our shark has met these two creatures (who

look suspiciously like nice, caring marine biologists), the shark cannot find one friend to believe its tale. Filled with humor and warmth,Sea Creatures from the Sky, will charm children and parents alike.

Ricardo Cortés is the illustrator of a #1 New York Times best-selling classic for parents about put-ting their children to bed, as well as the G-rated follow-up, Seriously, Just Go to Sleep. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and on rmcortes.com.



Bellini and the Sphinxa crime-fiction novel by Tony Bellotto

The highly entertaining debut novel from Brazilian musical icon and best-selling author Bellotto.

BOOK DETAILS: 5 February 2019, 224 pages; crime fiction

COMP TITLES: The Body Snatcher (Ladrão de Cadáveres) by Patrícia Melo; Perfect Days by Raphael Montes

FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDITIONS: Bellini and the Sphinx: Brazil (Compan-hia das Letras); Bellini and the Spirits: Brazil (Companhia das Letras) & Italy (Cavallo di Ferro); Bellini and the Demon: Brazil (Companhia das Letras) & France (Actes Sud); Rio Noir: Brazil (Casa da Palavra) & Spain (Maresia); São Paulo Noir: Brazil (Casa da Palavra)

BRAZILIAN SALES: The best-selling Bellini mysteries (4 novels featuring the same series detective), have sold approximately 80,000 copies in Portu-guese and have been released as major feature films

PRAISE FOR BELLOTTO: “Bellotto is one hell of a writer. With an elegant and quick narrative voice, he reaches a pinnacle of excellence and originality that’s hard to find around here.” —Reinaldo Moraes, author of Pornopopéia

“Undoubtedly, if Marlowe and Harry Bosch are Los Angeles, Matt Scudder is New York and Maigret, Paris, the detective Remo Bellini is São Paulo’s most complete translation. These mysteries quickly captivate the reader.” —José Figueiredo, O Globo

An apparently simple adultery case turns into an intricate and suspense-filled plot with numerous twists and turns, and a surprising ending. Dr. Rafidjian, a renowned physician from São Paulo’s old Ar-menian community, seeks out Dora Lobo’s detective agency, where Bellini works, wishing to locate the call girl Ana Cíntia Lopes. The case soon finds its way into the hands of Remo Bellini and his new as-sistant Beatriz; but the client’s brutal murder changes the course of the investigation, landing the two detectives into numerous high-risk situations.

To confront the puzzle of several sphinxes, most of them female, private detective Remo Bellini plung-es into the underworld of São Paulo. Little by little, the mysteries unravel in a surprising fashion, until the solving of the final enigma leaves Bellini perplexed, with a bitter taste in his mouth.

Translated from Brazilian Portuguese into English by Clifford E. Landers.

TONY BELLOTTO is the author of the best-selling Bellini mystery novels, which have been released as major feature films and translated widely, establishing him as the preeminent writer of Brazilian detec-tive fiction. He is also a guitarist and songwriter for the famed Brazilian rock band Titãs (The Titans), which has released twenty albums and sold over six million copies. Bellotto writes for the newspaper Globo and hosts a television show. He is the editor of Rio Noir and São Paulo Noir, both published by Akashic Books.

Akashic controls world rights, excluding Portuguese and Spanish; PDF available upon request.



Bivouaca novel by Kwame Dawes

When his father dies in suspicious circumstances, Ferron Morgan’s trauma is increased by the conflict within his family and his father’s friends over whether the death is the result

of medical negligence or a political assassination.

BOOK DETAILS: Spring-Summer 2019; 200 pages; literary fiction

COMP TITLES: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James; Augustown by Kei Miller

PRAISE FOR SHE’S GONE, DAWES’S DEBUT NOVEL:

“Dawes offers vibrant characters and locales in this diaspora of black culture and strong emotions, bordering the fine line between love and madness be-tween two troubled people.” —Booklist

“By turns sensual and painful, violent and tender, the novel explores love in the very real context of the human psyche, featuring two people who in the end don’t necessarily triumph over their pasts but instead realize their willing-ness to work toward overcoming the history and habits that would push them apart.” —Library Journal

“A masterly tour de force, the language here is elegant, seductive, and ten-der, the irony is sharp, the humor subverts, and hope shines through. Kwame Dawes is always reinventing the Caribbean narrative, fusing myth, legend,

reggae, and his own sense of style to create a powerful and tremendous art. He never ceases to amaze.” —Chris Abani, award-winning author of GraceLand

AWARDS: She’s Gone: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Best First Novel; LiveHopeLove.com: Emmy Award; and Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry; numerous poetry awards

A sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, this story of one man’s private grief and dislocation explores the psyche of a nation and a cultural movement that has lost its footing.

When Ferron Morgan’s family is thrown in turmoil by the suspicions surrounding the mysterious death of his father, his life is swept away in a tide of guilt and filial duty.

Narrated in a nonlinear fashion with cycles of flash-back, the story suggests that the answers to the future can only be surmised once the past has been revisited.

KWAME DAWES is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. He is Glenna Luschei editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. He is director of the African Poetry Book Fund and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

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The Devil’s Songa debut mystery novel by Lauren Stahl

There’s a killer on the loose in Mission County, Pennsylvania . . . whose next victim might be the prosecuting attorney.

BOOK DETAILS: 2 January 2018, 288 pages; mystery

COMP TITLES: Where All the Light Tends to Go by David Joy; Night Trem-ors by Matt Coyle; Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash; The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin

PRAISE FOR THE DEVIL’S SONG: “Lawyer Stahl’s exciting first novel . . . keeps the reader on a roller-coaster ride with unexpected twists and turns to the end.” —Publishers Weekly

“Family secrets, childhood memories, and old crimes influence the present in this suspenseful debut. Kate is a gutsy character, and her romance with Sam is enjoyable. An open-ended finale leaves room for future conflicts within the Magda family. A solid bet for fans of dark crime dramas.” —Library Journal

“I was up all night, utterly riveted by The Devil’s Song, with its memorable characters, crisp dialogue, and meticulous plotting. It’s hard to believe this is a debut. Lauren Stahl is a writer to watch!” —Alafair Burke, best-selling author of The Ex

Kate Magda, an up-and-coming prosecutor and the privileged daughter of the politically connected President Judge Tommy Magda, has been given the assignment of a lifetime—lead prosecutor on a string of murders rocking Mission County, Pennsylvania. Kate views the assignment as her chance to not only convict a serial killer, but to make a name for herself—one other than “the judge’s daughter.” She is determined to show her boss, her family, and the public that she is more than her father’s shadow.

As Kate delves into the case, she becomes convinced that she shares a personal link with the kill-er, who seems to know intimate details about a tragic childhood event Kate suffered—an event she thought she’d left in the past. It’s the way the victims are being posed—naked and dumped in open graves. Paranoia sets in, the night terrors return, and Kate has an imminent sense that she’s the killer’s next victim. Kate no longer feels assigned to the case . . . she is the case, and solving it is her only chance for survival.

LAUREN STAHL began her legal career as an assistant district attorney, prosecut-ing felonies with a focus on SVU crimes. She is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law and received her MFA from Wilkes University. Stahl resides in northeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, two children, and giant but sweet mastiff, Myra Ellen.

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Akashic Books | London 2018 | Literary Fiction

131 Different Thingsa novella by Zachary Lipez; photos by

Nick Zinner; design by Stacy WakefieldA novella by Zachary Lipez, immersed in evocative photographs by Nick Zinner (of Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

BOOK DETAILS: 6 Nov. 2018; 120 pages w/photos throughout; literary fiction/photography

COMP TITLES:

PRAISE FOR LIPEZ/ZINNER/WAKEFIELD’S PREVIOUS COLLABO-RATION, PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THE GUEST LIST:

“For those who’ve never had the opportunity to party like a rock star and felt like they were missing out, Please Take Me Off the Guest List may very well smooth over those regrets.” —The New York Times, T Magazine

When Sam, a bartender in New York, hears that his ex, Vicki, his one true love, has quit AA and is out drinking again, he embarks on a quest to find her. Sam and his sidekick Francis trek from dive bars to

gay bars to rocker bars—encountering skinheads, party promoters, underage drug dealers, and dominatrixes—but it seems they are always one step behind Vicki, almost as if 131 different things are keeping the lovers apart. Before the night is over, Sam will

have to wrestle with what he is really looking for.

Zachary Lipez, known for his essays and music writing, brings his pithy, multilayered, and self-deprecating voice to fiction with this first novella. Nick Zinner’s photographs heighten the intimacy with his sensitive and sympathetic eye. Stacy Wakefield, editor and art director, ties the book together in all its layers and ragged complication.

ZACHARY LIPEZ lives in New York City, where he has tended bar for the last twenty years. He is a regular contributor to Noisey, and his music and culture writing have also appeared in Vice, Hazlitt, Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Talkhouse, Inc., and Penthouse.

NICK ZINNER plays guitar in the three-time Grammy nominated band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and hardcore group Head Wound City. His photos have been published in four previous books, as well as in the New York Times, Vice, and Rolling Stone. He has exhibited in solo shows in Tokyo, Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.

STACY WAKEFIELD’S artist books, published for many years under the imprint Evil Twin, have been collected by lots of impressive museums and libraries. Her first novel, The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory, was published by Akashic in 2015.

Akashic controls worldwide rights; PDF available upon request.


Akashic Books | London 2018 | Nonfiction/Memoir

Now You See the Skya memoir by Catharine H. Murray

This memoir (the first release on best-selling author Ann Hood’s new imprint, Gracie Belle) about the fathomless loss of a beloved child

reveals how tragedy can transform us and make us more fully alive.

BOOK DETAILS: 6 Nov. 2018, 320 pages; YA literary fiction/fantasy

COMP TITLES: .

HIGHLIGHTS: Imprint curator, Ann Hood, will be very involved in promotion. As the award-winning, best-selling author of several books (including a grief memoir), Hood’s work has been translated into Italian (Fabbri; Tre60), Spanish (Booket; Click Ediciones), Portuguese (Topseller), Norwegian (Cappelen Damm), Dutch (Archipel), French (City Editions), German (Diana Verlag), Serbian (Vulkan izdavaštvo)

ADVANCE PRAISE: “Now You See the Sky is singular, as wise and beautiful and elegiac as it is specific and in-the-moment . . . There are images in here, gestures of love, and its hard conversations, that a reader will remember forever.” —Rick Bass, author of For a Little While

“I thank and applaud Catharine H. Murray for the openness, honesty, and beauty with which she tells this ungilded story of a mother’s love for a dying child. An essential recommendation for those living with loss.” —Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of This Is Paradise: An Irish Mother’s Grief, an

African Village’s Plight, and the Medical Clinic That Brought Fresh Hope to Both

Now You See the Sky is a coming-of-age memoir about love, marriage, motherhood, illness, and death. After college, Catharine H. Murray travels to a small town on the banks of the Mekong River in Thailand to work in a refugee camp and learn about life. There she gradually outgrows the shell of her American worldview, as her interior world begins to attune to this new one that moves with a slower rhythm and deeper calm than she ever imagined. Within a year, she falls in love with a local man and, two years later, marries him. Together, they have three sons.

When their middle son is diagnosed with cancer at age five, the family moves from rural Thailand, to Seattle, to Bangkok, before they settle on a remote mountaintop to battle the disease as the child slips into a decline. Full of wisdom and honesty, Now You See the Sky allows the reader to witness the fathomless loss of a beloved child and learn how tragedy can transform us, expand our vision, and make us more fully alive.

CATHARINE H. MURRAY lives with her two sons in Portland, Maine, where she teaches English to refugees. She has read or led workshops on grief writing at Harvard University, Maine Medical Center, Maine State Prison, University of New England, and the Hayes Library in Bangkok.

Now You See the Sky is the debut selection of Ann Hood’s new nonfiction imprint with Akashic, GRACIE BELLE. Modeled after her experience writing the best-selling memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, and named after her daughter, Grace, Hood’s imprint reaffirms for authors and readers that none of us are alone in our journeys.

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Akashic Books | London 2018 | Briefly Noted

An Unkindness of Ghostsa debut science fiction novel by Rivers SolomonBOOK DETAILS: Oct. 2017, 352 pages, science fiction

COMP TITLES: The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Station Eleven, Cold Magic by Kate Elliot, and The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.

LICENSING DEALS: France (Editions Aux Forges de Vulcain, Finland (Like), Hungary (Fonix Könyvmuhely)

PRAISE: An NPR Best Book of 2017; a Library Journal Best Book of 2017; Guardian Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Book of 2017; a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017; a Bustle Best Fiction Book of 2017; a Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction & Fantasy title of 2017

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.

Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral re-strictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war.

Praise Song for the Butterfliesa novel by Bernice L. McFaddenBOOK DETAILS: 28 August 2018, 224 pages; literary fiction

COMP TITLES: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu, Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta, and Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique

LICENSING DEALS: Praise Song for the Butterflies: UK (Jacaranda); The Book of Harlan: UK (Jacaranda), Greece (Kleidarithmos); Gathering of Waters: France (Joelle Losfeld/Gallimard), Taiwan (Amygdala/Walkers Culture)

AWARDS: The Book of Harlan: American Book Award, NAACP Image Award, finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

FILM INTEREST: The Book of Harlan is currently being developed as a feature film by Mark Tonderai/Shona Films.

Abebe Tsikata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Tsikatas’ idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abebe’s father, following his mother’s advice, places her in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as religious atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abebe for the fifteen years she is enslaved within the shrine. When she is finally res-cued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past, endure the revelation of family secrets, and learn to trust and love again. In the tradition of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee, Praise Song for the Butterflies is a contemporary story that offers an educational, eye-opening account into the practice of ritual servitude in West Africa. Spanning decades and two continents, Praise Song for the Butterflies will break and heal your heart.

Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economicsby Bobby SullivanBOOK DETAILS: 4 December 2018, 228 pages; political science

Revolutionary Threads offers an American Rasta’s retelling of episodes in American history with an anticolo-nial thrust, accented by Bobby Sullivan’s own personal experiences. The book ties together various subjects while returning each time to the culture of Rastafari, social justice movements, and cooperative economics . . . Sullivan aims to dispel the oversimplification of our perceptions of Rastafari, and other cultures, in the age of the Internet, where the loudest voices are often the most extreme and divisive . . . All in all, the book hopes to serve as a unifying agent for our all-too-connected global village, and for the resistance to the en-suing consolidation of global capital and all its excesses.

BOBBY SULLIVAN grew up in the Washington, DC punk scene, fueled by Rasta rockers Bad Brains and the foundational Minor Threat. His most notable band continues to be Soulside (of which he is the singer), which had multiple releases on Dischord Re-cords, produced by Ian MacKaye. Along the way, Sullivan became an activist, working with Food Not Bombs, the Anarchist Black Cross political prisoner support network, and a Rasta prison ministry.


Akashic Books | London 2018 | Akashic Noir Series

INTERNATIONAL ACQUISITIONS

o Argentina (Spanish): PRH: Buenos Aires

o Australia: Xoum: Sydney

o Brazil: Casa da Palavra: Rio, USA, London, Paris, São Paulo

o Canada (French): Guy St.-Jean: Montreal

o Croatia: Durieux: Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Rome, Stockholm, USA, Zagreb

o Czech Republic: Paseka: Prague

o Denmark: People’s Press: Brooklyn, Copenhagen

o Finland: Like: Helsinki, London

o France: Asphalte Éditions: Barcelona, Beirut, Brooklyn, Brussels, Buenos Aires, D.C., Delhi, Haiti, Havana, London, Los Angeles, Marseille, Mexico City, Paris, Rome

o France: Rivages: Boston

o Germany: CulturBooks: Berlin, Paris, USA

o Greece: Fantastikos Kosmos: Brooklyn, Istanbul

o India: HarperCollins: Delhi, Mumbai

o Iraq: Alca: Baghdad, Pittsburgh

o Ireland: Brandon/Mt. Eagle: Dublin

o Israel: Kinneret: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

o Italy: Alet: Brooklyn, D.C., Havana, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco, & Wall Street

o Italy: Metropoli d’Asia: Delhi

o Italy: RCS-Fabbri: USA Noir

o Japan: Futami: Manhattan

o Korea: Eyes & Heart: Brooklyn

o Malaysia: Buku Fixi: Tel Aviv

o Mexico: Oceano: USA

o Mexico: Random House: Mexico City, Los Angeles

o Netherlands: Ambo Anthos: Amsterdam Noir

o Philippines: Anvil: Manila

o Poland: Claroscuro: Barcelona, Belfast, Brussels, Mexico City, Moscow, Singapore, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Venice, USA

o Russia: Arabesque: London, Los Angeles

o Russia: Eksom: Moscow

o Russia: Atticus-Azbooka: St. Petersburg

o Serbia: USA, Dublin, Istanbul, St. Petersburg

o Singapore: Monsoon Press: Singapore

o Spain: Edhasa: Barcelona

o Spain: Maresia: Rio

o Sweden: Bokfabriken: Stockholm

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o Turkey: Soyka Yayinlar: Beirut

o UK: Serpent’s Tail: London

THERE ARE OVER 70 IN-PRINT TITLES. ASK US FOR THE COMPLETE LIST.

Launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir, the award-winning Akashic Noir Series features original noir anthologies with each volume comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city or locale. The series includes best-selling authors like Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as new, rising stars. With over 70 titles now available, many of our international partners are finding success by publishing volumes local to their publishing house alongside a selection of existing titles. Recently added titles include Amsterdam Noir, Hong Kong Noir, Berlin Noir, and Sydney Noir.


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