Khalifa Al KHUDER

Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his return to him later after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from outside, he stayed inside the monster, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...

Khalifa Al KHUDER is a Syrian photographer, journalist and writer, winner of the Samir kassir Award in Opinion Article category 2017.

152 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-39-5
Fiction

Mamdouh ADWAN

The world of organized and random oppression that a person lives in this age, is a world that is neither suitable for man nor for the growth of his humanity. Rather, it is a world that cultivates the “animality” of man (i.e. turning him into an animal). The writer deals with this topic like a researcher, but with the mentality, the temperament and the style of a writer. He is not going to propose another theory or refute another.

Our perception of the human being that we should be is not impossible to achieve, even if it comes from a literary or artistic conception. But this perception makes us, “when we see the reality in which we live”, feel the size of our losses during our human journey, which are cumulative and continuous losses as long as the world of oppression and humiliation exists and continues. And we will end up becoming creatures of another type whose name was “man”, or aspired to be a human being, without changing form.

Mamdouh ADWAN‎ was a prolific Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic. He published his first collection of poetry in 1967 then he published 18 further collections. He has also published 2 novels, 25 plays, translated 23 books from English including the Iliad, the Odyssey and a biography of George Orwell. and Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, he wrote a number of TV series. He wrote regularly on Arab current affairs, he also taught at the Advanced Institute for Theater in Damascus.

288 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-06-7
Non-fiction

Mamdouh AZZAM

After twenty years of work, Salem finishes his service in the gendarme’s cavalry and returns to his home and family in Deir al-Qarn, bringing with him the only companion who has stayed with him for all those years: his horse. Family members have mixed feelings towards this guest, who will now be part of the family. The storytelling chains take place between the five children and the mother, and as they rotate, they weave stories and build worlds. In this novel, Mamdouh Azzam writes, in a new and different way from his previous novels, a tale about a simple family living its tranquility and fear, its surrender and rejection, its peace and struggles, to move within us endless questions and reflections, while freedom writes in its broad sense the chapter of the end.

Mamdouh AZZAM is a Syrian novelist. His most celebrated and controversial novel is The Palace of Rain, a powerful and daring treatment of taboos in the conservative Druze religion and community. His novel Ascension to Death was translated into English and French. And was adapted into an acclaimed film in 1995.

256 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-75-3
Fiction

Rachel CARSON
Collection « Petite bibliothèque d’écologie populaire »

« Printemps silencieux constitue la naissance du mouvement écologiste. » Al Gore

Premier ouvrage sur le scandale des pesticides, Printemps silencieux a entraîné l’interdiction du DDT aux États-Unis. Cette victoire historique d’un individu contre les lobbies de l’industrie chimique a déclenché au début des années 1960 la naissance du mouvement écologiste.
Printemps silencieux est aussi l’essai d’une écologue et d’une vulgarisatrice hors pair. En étudiant l’impact des pesticides sur le monde vivant, du sol aux rivières, des plantes aux animaux, et jusqu’à l’ADN, ce livre constitue l’exposition limpide, abordable par tous, d’une vision écologique du monde.
50 ans après sa conception, on redécouvre Printemps silencieux au moment où l’on commence à s’intéresser, en France, à la philosophie de l’écologie. « Ce n’est pas moi, c’est Rachel Carson qui a inventé l’écologie profonde », affirme en effet le philosophe norvégien Arne Næss.

Vendu à plus de 2 000 000 d’exemplaires, traduit en 16 langues, Printemps silencieux n’est pas seulement un best-seller : c’est un monument de l’histoire culturelle et sociale du XXe siècle. Point de référence difficilement contournable de l’histoire de l’écologie, cet ouvrage fait partie de la bibliothèque de l’honnête homme.

2019 [2009] - 352 pages - 11 ×17 cm - 12 € - ISBN : 978-2-918490-999

Marin SCHAFFNER
Collection « Le monde qui vient »

Pour ses 10 ans, Wildproject propose une synthèse pédagogique et accessible des grands enjeux de l’écologie.
Depuis une décennie environ, une scène des pensées de l’écologie a émergé en langue française.
Comment décrire et nommer ce nouveau continent à la croisée des luttes, des arts et des sciences ? À quelles œuvres collectives ses acteurs sont-ils en train de donner vie ? Quelles sont les grandes dynamiques en cours ? Comment l’écologie transforme-t-elle nos façons de penser et d’agir ?
Une sélection d’auteurs, mais aussi de journalistes, éditeurs, traducteurs, libraires, militants… répond à ces questions.

2019 - 180 pages - 13 × 20 cm - 15 € - ISBN : 978-2-918-490-784

Collection « Petite bibliothèque d’écologie populaire »

Bien plus qu’un ebook, le livre peut être un support écologiquement vertueux.
Mais depuis vingt ans, l’objet livre et ses usages se sont industrialisés et mondialisés – concentration du monde de l’édition, délocalisation des impressions, essor du numérique…
Cet objet manufacturé séculaire se retrouve aujourd’hui pris en tenaille entre des logiques artisanales et industrielles.
Face aux exigences nouvelles des lecteurs, des questions inédites émergent. Sur quels piliers voulons-nous construire la chaîne du livre de demain ?
Entretiens, écofictions et manifestes : des libraires, des éditeurs, des auteurs et des forestiers invitent à imaginer le livre de l’après-pétrole.

2020 - 112 pages - 11 ×17 cm - 9 € - ISBN : 978-2-918490-968

Yasmina RHELJARI

It is said that Alexander the Great, as he deployed his immense army in a Kashmir meadow, set up camp before fighting. At dawn, a carpet of mauve flowers covered the ground even under the horses’ hooves. Faced with this dire omen, the 120,000 soldiers refused to fight and Alexander the Great, for the first time, had to bow to the victorious rudder. Ahraz, the founder of Al Kanz, harnessing the powers of these precious pistils, succeeds in becoming one of the richest businessmen in the country. The Mountain Orphan has come a long way, but it’s time for him to pass the torch. Who will be the one who will be chosen for the position of president of Al Kanz? Will the Safran Al Kanz become the best in the world? It is in La Safranière, a small village hidden in the Atlas Mountains where Ahraz was born that all these questions will be clarified, whatever the cost!

Yasmina RHELJARI runs a training firm in Rabat, her first novel “Le diner de trop” appeared in 2018. She is also a columnist at Vie Eco.

2020 - 280 pages - 13 x 20,5 cm - 98 DH / 12 € - ISBN : 978-9920-755-17-7

Ahmed AMENSOUR

The novel talks about a play written by a theater artist for a woman called Zahra, who is an activist of the February 20 Movement, and in the end, the latter will not play that role; Because she initially thought that the role was written for her, then she discovers that he wrote for another woman and wants to attribute it to her.
“I have never accepted to despair on the pretext of the futility of studying in a country teeming with the unemployed. Instinctively and decisively, I rejected the position of the unemployed whose fate depends on state policy.”
The disabled person who has no job but to participate in sit-ins and demonstrations that the graduate armies are fighting in the capital, in front of Parliament and in the streets of the capital.

Mohamed AMANSOUR is a novelist, critic, and university professor at the Faculty of Arts in Meknes. His novel experience belongs to the style of the new novel in Morocco, which in its experimental strategy deviates from the traditional novel. He has published several critical books, as well as two novels “Al Mouktafiaa” in 2004 and “Tears of Bacchus” in 2010, in addition to two collections of stories.

2019 - 160 pages - 13 x 20,5 cm - 85 DH / 13 € - ISBN : 978-9920-755-18-4

Yousouf AMINE ELALAMY

Inconsolable, a quarter of a century after the death of his father, the author decides to resuscitate him. He unearths his past to invent a future for it and put it back into the world. In his quest for a father, he does not hesitate to assume his identity, to wear his face as one wears a mask that reveals more than it hides. Here we find the author’s taste for reversals and invention, he who does not hesitate to predict the past and remember the future. Carried by a subtle writing, at the same time soft and biting, Even not dead is a captivating, moving, overwhelming story; a snub to death and a hymn to life.

Moroccan writer and artist Youssouf AMINE ELALAMY is the author of several novels: Un Marocain à New York, Les Clandestins (Grand Atlas Prize and Le Plaisir de Lire Prize), Paris mon bled, Miniatures, Oussama mon amour, Amour nomade; Funny spring. French-speaking author, he published in 2005 Tqarqib Ennab, a book in Darija (Moroccan Arabic) and in 1999 obtained the Prize for the best travelogue awarded by the British Council International for his writings in English. His books are translated into several languages.
«C’est beau la guerre» by Youssouf Amine Elalamy, has just been selected among the 10 finalist works of the 2020 edition of the Prix des 5 Continents de la Francophonie.

2018 - 114 pages - 13 x 20,5 cm - 80 DH / 13 € - ISBN : 978-9954-1-6831-8

Françoise KERISEL ; Isabelle CALIN (illustratrice)

Il y a très longtemps, la belle reine Makeda dirigeait le royaume de Saba, dans l’Est de l’Afrique. Les contes et les textes sacrés parlent de cette souveraine légendaire qui a donné naissance à Ménélik, le premier roi d’Éthiopie.

Françoise Kerisel est un autrice d’ouvrages illustrés, passionnée par les légendes et la philosophie, elle s’est lancée dans des études de lettres classiques. En collaboration avec des illustrateurs très différents, ses textes ont notamment été publiés par Magnard Jeunesse, Didier jeunesse et Desclée de Brouwer.

Septembre 2019 - 32 pages - 20 X 22,5 cm - 7 € ; 4 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-60-47-7
Collection «Lucy»
Documentaire illustré
Public : 7-11 ans
Langue : français

Alpha Oumar KONARE ; Adame BA KONARE

Restituer près de deux mille ans d’histoire relève d’une véritable gageure. C’est pourtant cette entreprise colossale qu’Alpha Oumar et Adame Ba Konaré ont menée dans cette deuxième édition rénovée et prolongée des grandes dates du Mali.
Sous forme de repères datés et sur la basse de l’événement strict, cet ouvrage unique relate les faits autant qu’il éclaire et instruit. La riche iconographie qui l’accompagne en fait un véritable outil pédagogique, agréable à parcourir et précieux à la fois pour le chercheur et pour le grand public.

Alpha Oumar Konaré est professeur en archéologie, homme d’Etat – président de la république du Mali de 1992 à 2002, président de la Commission de l’Union africaine de 2003 à 2008 –, il est coauteur avec Adame Ba Konaré des Grandes dates du Mali, dont la première édition a été publiée en 1983 aux Editions-Imprimeries du Mali.

Adame Ba Konaré est professeure, elle a enseigné pendant presque 20 ans l’histoire de l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara à l’Ecole normale supérieure de Bamako. Féministe engagée, militante des Droits de l’homme, elle est auteure de nombreux ouvrages.

Septembre 2019 - 480 pages - 32,3 x 21,7 cm - 30 000 FCFA ; 49 € - ISBN : 978-99952-60-28-6
Genre : histoire
Langue : français
Reliure : cartonné

Adrienne YABOUZA

Les coépouses Ndongo Passy et Grekpoubou s’aiment comme deux sœurs, unies pour le pire et pour le meilleur. A la mort de leur mari, face au mensonge et à l’injustice, elles engagent une lutte pied à pied avec le destin.
Dans un style mordant, Adrienne Yabouza emprunte à la rue de Bangui ses mots les plus colorés pour raconter la vie en dents de scie de deux femmes de caractère, généreuses et avisées.

Costarmoricaine d’adoption, Centrafricaine, Adrienne Yabouza écrit avec enthousiasme aussi bien pour les petits que pour les grands avec un style qui lui est si particulier : humour, franc-parler, néologismes savoureux … le tout empreint d’émotion et de sagesse.

Octobre 2015 - 168 pages - 11,5 x 19 cm - 14 € ; 7 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-60-29-3
Genre : roman
Langue : français

Kadri HAMADOU

Un album pour enfant illustré en couleur publié en bilingue (en français et en 5 langues nationales du Niger). Un livre sur l’handicap, la tolérance et le respect.

Kadri HAMADOU a embrassé la carrière de peintre après avoir abandonné les études universitaires en 1997. Ses toiles ont été exposées à Niamey, en France et en Côte d’Ivoire. Il est aussi bien illustrateur qu’auteur de textes.

Novembre 2010 - 24 pages - 20,5 X 19 cm - 2 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-91960-701-3

Malam ADJI ZATOULOUR

Un roman en français qui retrace la vie d’un instituteur qui évolue dans le milieu rural. L’oeuvre fait ressortir les difficultés actuelles de l’enseignement et apporte des pistes de solutions.

Malam ADJI ZATOULOUR est né en 1952 à Goudoumaria, dans la région de Diffa au Niger. Sa carrière d’enseignant commença en juin 1974. Il fit valoir ses droits à la retraite en octobre 2006. Se sentant encore capable d’enseigner, il est présentement professeur de français, histoire et géographie au CES de Goudoumaria. Chevronné lecteur de la littérature, il décida de se lancer dans l’écriture.

Janvier 2015 - 132 pages - 13 X 17 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-37235-025-9

Boubacar HAMA BEIDHI

Cet ouvrage présente des proverbes et des devinettes utilisés dans la vie de tous les jours. La maîtrise des proverbes traduit en effet chez l’individu son enracinement dans sa culture, dont il contribue à maintenir et à pérenniser la valeur. Ils sont utilisés pour rappeler, sous une forme imagée et lapidaire, les règles en vigueur d’une société nécessitant une grande mobilité d’esprit pour discerner, sous leur forme condensée, toute somme d’observation, d’expérience, d’humour.

Boubacar HAMA BEIDHI, conseiller pédagogique à la retraite, a consacré tout son temps à la recherche sur les traditions et l’histoire des Peuls. L’ensemble de ses textes publiés en France et au Niger constitue une vraie bibliothèque de référence, témoignage de la richesse de la culture nigérienne.

Avril 2017 - 172 pages - 16 X 24 cm - 7 500 FCFA - ISBN : 978-2-919607-16-7

Fadma AÏT MOUS et Driss KSIKES

Collection «Les Presses de l’Université Citoyenne» / Prix Grand Atlas 2015 et Prix Grand Atlas des étudiants 2015
Depuis les soulèvements de rue en 2011, les peuples attendent des intellectuels qu’ils les aident à mieux s’orienter dans la sphère publique. Au Maroc, quinze penseurs, ayant en commun une éthique de chercheurs et restant en interaction avec la société, livrent le fond de leurs pensées, puisant dans les héritages humanistes et analysant les réalités politiques et sociales.

2014 - 380 pages - 14 x 20,5 cm - 95 DH / 20 € - ISBN : 978-9954-33-164-4

Hicham HOUDAÏFA

Collection «Enquêtes» / Prix spécial du jury du Prix Grand Atlas 2017

Filières des études islamiques à l’Université, parcours de salafistes, problématique de l’enseignement religieux à l’école, quartiers marginalisés en proie à la délinquance, niqab… À travers huit enquêtes et reportages, Hicham Houdaïfa éclaire la banalisation de l’extrémisme religieux dans la société marocaine.

2017 - 94 pages - 14 x 20,5 cm - 65 DH / 13 € - ISBN : 978-9954-39-363-5

Asma LAMRABET

Prix Grand Atlas 2017
Voile, polygamie, égalité dans l’héritage… Asma Lamrabet fait l’inventaire des discriminations imposées aux femmes au nom de l’islam. Elle démontre que la plupart des interprétations médiévales classiques, produit de leur milieu social et culturel, se sont construites à la marge et parfois à l’encontre du Coran, porteur d’une vision beaucoup plus égalitaire et ouverte.

2017 – 214 pages – 14 x 20,5 cm – 95 DH / 20 € – ISBN : 978-9954-39-271-3

Nasrin PARVAZ

Mabel ENCINAS-SANCHEZ

Rhiannon LEWIS

The Asian American Superhero Antholog - Edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma

Appealing to both comics fans and Asian Americans seeking to claim their place in American culture, Secret Identities makes brilliant use of the conventions of the superhero comic book to expose the real face of the Asian American experience.

This groundbreaking graphic anthology brings together leading Asian American creators in the comics industry—including Gene Yang (National Book Award finalist for American Born Chinese), Bernard Chang (Wonder Woman), Greg Pak (The Hulk), and Christine Norrie (Black Canary Wedding Special )—to craft original graphical short stories set in a compelling “shadow history” of our country: from the building of the railroads to the Japanese American internment, the Vietnam airlift, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the incarceration of Dr. Wen Ho Lee.

Entertaining and enlightening, Secret Identities offers whiz-bang action, searing satire, and thoughtful commentary from a community too often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, while showcasing a vivid cross-section of the talents whose imagination and creativity is driving the contemporary comics renaissance.

Jeff Yang was the founder of the pioneering Asian American periodical aMagazine. The author of three books and the biweekly column “Asian Pop” for the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Parry Shen, best known for his lead role in the movie Better Luck Tomorrow, lives in Southern California. Keith Chow, an educator and comics journalist, lives in Maryland. Jerry Ma, the founder of the indie comics studio Epic Proportions, lives in New York City.

$21.95 / £15.99
Pub Date: Spring 2009
Format: paperback
Trim: 8 x 10, 192 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59558-398-7

Baseball and the Rise (and Fall) of the American Way Abroad - by Robert Elias

Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.”

From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball’s role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball’s first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America’s national pastime and baseball’s role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball’s frequent and often surprising connections to America’s presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only reinforce America’s dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that’s about more than just sports.

Robert Elias teaches law and politics at the University of San Francisco. He’s the author and editor of eight books, most recently Baseball and the American Dream, and a baseball novel, The Deadly Tools of Ignorance. He lives in Mill Valley, California.

$27.95 / £10.99
Pub Date: Fall 2009
Format: hardcover
Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 416 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59558-195-2

The Purging of Muslim Spain - by Matthew Carr

In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death.

In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations, leaving their property in the hands of their Christian neighbors. In Aragon and Catalonia, Muslims were escorted by government commissioners who forced them to pay whenever they drank water from a river or took refuge in the shade.

For five years the expulsion continued to grind on, until an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory, nearly 5 percent of the total population. By 1614 Spain had successfully implemented what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history, and Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist.

Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr’s riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain. Here is a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe—a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against overwhelming odds.

Matthew Carr is a writer, broadcaster, and journalist and the author of The Infernal Machine (The New Press). He lives in Derbyshire, England.

$28.95
Pub Date: Fall 2009
Format: hardcover
Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 368 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59558-361-1

Merlinda BOBIS

1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-Hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father.

How much can the heart accommodate? Death and love, an enemy and a sweetheart, war and an impassioned serenade, and more. Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love.

Awards
Winner: 2014 Juan C. Laya Prize for Best Novel in a Foreign Language
Winner: 2013 Most Underrated Book Award
Finalist: 2013 Davitt Awards. Best Crime and Mystery Books by Australian Women

“As I was reading my thoughts kept turning to Wide Sargasso Sea. It shares with Jean Rhys’s masterpiece more than just a threat to topple into tragedy, but Fish-Hair Woman takes a wider view. It is a love story, a murder mystery, a story about family and a story about the impact of the kind of self-perpetuating government corruption that so often befalls a country in political turmoil. It’s ambitious and sprawling, and things could quickly go wrong. Fortunately, they don’t. Bobis is a talented, passionate writer who is unafraid of exploring the storytelling potential of the novel.”
–Tristan Foster, Verity LA

Published by Spinifex, co-edition with Anvil Press, Philippines; Translation into Spanish by JC Sáez Editor, Chile (2017).

2011 - 232 x 154 mm - 303 pp - AUD$29.95 - ISBN: 9781876756970

khulud kHAMIS

Jewellery designer, Maisoon, wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn’t easy for a tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. Frustrated by the apathy of her boyfriend Ziyad and her father Majid—who want her to get on with her life and forget those in the Occupied Territories—she lashes out, only to discover her father isn’t the man she thought he was.

Raised a Christian, in a relationship with a Muslim man and enamoured with a Palestinian woman from the Occupied Territories, Maisoon must decide her own path.

khulud khamis unpacks the multiple layers of culture, religion, sexuality, politics, feminism and nationalism in the hope of gathering the fragmented pieces of the past and reclaiming the lost contiguity of being Palestinian.
—Samah Sabawi, Palestinian playwright and commentator

... khulud khamis has the rare gift of speaking directly to a reader’s soul; this radiant novel shows just what can happen when women challenge the limits of their world. —Sharon Olinka, author of The Good City

khulud khamis is a Palestinian feminist writer, born to a Slovak mother and a Palestinian father. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Haifa and works in the field of social change organizations. She is a member of the feminist organization Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center. She lives in Haifa with her daughter. This is her first novel.

Published by Spinifex Press; co-edition with New Internationalist UK; Italian translation FILA37 (2015); Turkish translation Gulduniya (2017).

2015 - 192 pp - ISBN: 9781742199009
Fiction

Susan HAWTHORNE

In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries.

It means that books which take off slowly but have long lives, the books that change social norms, are less likely to be published.

Independent publishers are seeking another way. A way of engagement with society and methods that reflect something important about the locale or the niche they inhabit. Independent and small publishers are like rare plants that pop up among the larger growth but add something different, perhaps they feed the soil, bring colour or scent into the world.

Bibliodiversity is a term invented by Chilean publishers in the 1990s as a way of envisioning a different kind of publishing. In this manifesto, Susan Hawthorne provides a scathing critique of the global publishing industry set against a visionary proposal for organic publishing. She looks at free speech and fair speech, at the environmental costs of mainstream publishing and at the promises and challenges of the move to digital.

Susan Hawthorne has worked in the book industry for more than 30 years as a writer, festival organiser, reviewer, editor, publisher and mentor. In 1991, she co-founded Spinifex Press with Renate Klein, after working for Penguin Australia for four years. She has written extensively about the industry, co-organised digital training for small and large publishers, taught Publishing Studies and Creative Writing, and has been an active member of peak bodies for publishers and writers. From 2011 to 2016, she was the English-language Coordinator for the International Alliance of Independent Publishers based in Paris. She is Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University and Publisher at Spinifex Press.

Bibliodiversity can be read as a manifesto for the defence and promotion of diversity in all its forms, but also as a master class in ethics.—JUAN CARLOS SÁEZ C., Director Gerente, JC Sáez Editor, Chile

This publication should be mandatory reading for anyone within the publishing industry.—MARY MASTERS, General Manager, Small Press Network, Australia

2014 - 104 pp - ISBN: 9781742199306
Non-Fiction

Rights: World. Published by Spinifex Press; Canadian rights sold to Fernwood Publishing; Translations into Arabic: December 2015, Tunisia, Éditions Med Ali, Arabic; Syria, Atlas Publishing, Arabic; Egypt, Elain Publishing, Arabic; Lebanon, Dar-Alfarabi and Arab Diffusion. French, 2016: France, Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer; Switzerland, éditions d’en bas; Benin, Éditions Ruisseaux d’Afrique; Mali, Éditions Jamana; Cameroun, Presses universitaires d’Afrique ; Spanish, 2017: Chile, JC Sáez; Mexico, Trilce Ediciones; Uruguay: Ediciones Trilce; also publishers in Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. German, 2017, Verbrecher Verlag.

Fernando VELOSO, Sergio GUIMARÃES FERREIRA (orgs.)

Este importante livro mostra que é possível alcançar redução expressiva da violência armada, da insegurança e da criminalidade que aterrorizam a população de grandes áreas urbanas do Brasil. Seus autores mostram – com fatos e não vagos discursos – que isso não se trata de uma esperança insensata. Não apenas porque foi alcançado em Nova York, Boston, Bogotá e várias outras cidades do mundo, mas principalmente porque, no Brasil, reduziu-se a violência em lugares em que isso era mais improvável: no Jardim Ângela, bairro da periferia da cidade de São Paulo que chegou a ser considerado o bairro mais violento do mundo, e em Diadema, que deixou de ser em quatro anos a cidade mais violenta de São Paulo, passando a ocupar o 18º posto.

Se você não pretende se deixar levar pelo desencanto, pela frustração, pelo ceticismo e pela desesperança, leia este livro. Entenderá, com base em experiências reais, que é possível, sem ilusões voluntaristas, apelos messiânicos e excessos e abusos no exercício da autoridade do Estado, mostrar aos bandidos armados que essa é uma longa guerra de muitas batalhas, mas que, ao fim e ao cabo, eles não só não podem ganhá-la, como a estão perdendo – e a perderão.

2008 - 208 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 35,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-046-1

Lêdo IVO
Pinturas de Gonçalo IVO
Desenho de Gianguido BONFANTI

O poema narra a visão da infância guardada pela memória. Obra de perda e despedida, seus versos longos se desdobram como as ondas do mar alagoano. Música e imagem se fundem para exprimir uma reflexão sobre o sentido da existência, da qual as pinturas de Gonçalo Ivo não são comentário ou simples ilustração.

2008 - 64 páginas - 16,8 x 24,5 cm - R$ 38,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-040-9

Katia MACIEL (org.)

37 textos de teóricos e artistas que compõem, em suas inter-relações, amplo panorama sobre as novas situações de cinema, em que superfícies híbridas de luz e movimento se conjugam com a participação e a imersão dos espectadores. A introdução da organizadora define o título do livro.

2009 - 432 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 65,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-009-3