Loh CHIN EE, Angelia POON and Esther VINCENT (editors)

About the Book
Catching crickets after school, waiting for class to end, playing with lanterns during Mid-Autumn festival, watching the rain and the world go by—these are some of the little things that the poems in this anthology explore.
In this updated and expanded edition of beloved poetry anthology Little Things, poets look afresh at things mundane and universal, from birth to growing up and first love to old age and death. This second edition also adds a new section “Our Earth”, with poems that examine environmental themes. Readers will find, within a selection of around a hundred poems from Singapore and around the world, works by established and up-and-coming Singapore poets alongside well-known international poets and previously unpublished poems.
Arranged in seven broad sections—“Little Things”, “Growing Up”, “People Around Us”, “Going Places”, “Love and Loss”, “On Words” and “Our Earth”—this anthology will appeal to readers both young and old with poems that are quirky, delightful, sad, reflective and timely.

About the Editors
Loh Chin Ee is Associate Professor at the English Language and Literature Department and Associate Dean (Partnerships) at the Office of Education Research at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her research focuses on young people’s reading at the intersection of globalisation and technological changes as well as the role of school libraries in fostering reading for pleasure and lifelong learning. She is the author of The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore (Routledge, 2017), co-editor of Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2018), and editor of The Reading Lives of Teens: Research and Practice. You can find out more about her research and work on her website at https://www.lohchinee.com. She enjoys the little things in life such as waking up to homemade coffee, reading a book without interruption, having time for little sewing projects and walking in the park with her family.

Angelia Poon is Associate Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include postcolonial theory and contemporary Anglophone literature with a focus on Singapore and Southeast Asian writing. She is the author of Global City Dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore Literature: Intersectional Politics and Cultural Negotiations in the 21^st Century (Palgrave Macmillan 2024), co-editor of Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts (Routledge, 2017) and one of the editors of Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature in English (NUS Press, 2009). Her articles on Singapore literature and contemporary fiction have appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry and Asian Studies Review. She also co-edited Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (Ethos Books, 2021). She enjoys the little things in life like coffee in the morning and the anticipation of a good book.

Esther Vincent Xueming is the editor-in-chief and founder of The Tiger Moth Review, an ecojournal of art and literature based in Singapore. She is the author of two poetry collections, womb song (Ethos Books, 2024) and Red Earth (Blue Cactus Press, 2021), and co-editor of Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting (University of Hawai’i Press, 2023), Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (Ethos Books, 2021) and Poetry Moves (Ethos Books, 2020). Esther has served as guest editor for Mānoa Journal (35.2), University of Hawai’i Press (2023) and as guest regional editor, Asia for a special eco-themed issue of The Global South (16.1), University of Mississippi (2022). Her essays have been published in The Trumpeter, EcoTheo Review, Sinking City Review and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. A literature educator by profession, she is passionate about the entanglements in art, science, literature, spirituality and ecology. Besides teaching and writing, Esther is an Usui Reiki Master and ANFT Forest Therapy Guide whose practice involves relating to the more-than-human world in an embodied, heart-centred way. She enjoys the little things in life like whisking herself an oat matcha latte, being in nature and breathing in and out mindfully on and off the mat.

2025 - 172 pages - 12 X 20 cm - S$16.00 (before GST) - ISBN (paperback): 978-981-17689-0-3 - ISBN (e-book): 978-981-17689-1-0

Prasanthi RAM

Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising eleven interlinked stories, this short story cycle traces the lives of nine women from 1950 all the way to 2019, shedding light on the community and its evolution through the decades. As the stories take us from India to Singapore, Australia and even America, we follow the experiences of the women in the family: Raji the matriarch who lives in seclusion at an ashram; her daughter Padma who struggles to raise her family the traditional way; Padma’s daughter Keerthana who is about to be married and don the nine yard madisar, a symbol of womanhood. Tender, dynamic and full of heart, this cycle is a resonant portrayal of female solidarity and the complexities of the diasporic experience in contemporary Singapore.

About the Author
Prasanthi Ram (Dr) is a full-time writing lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, where she completed her PhD in creative writing. Born out of her dissertation, Nine Yard Sarees is her debut work of fiction. Other short stories can be found in a variety of publications including Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (Epigram Books: 2021) and Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (Landmark Books: 2020). She also writes personal essays that have been published in What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian (AWARE: 2022) as well as Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (Ethos Books: 2021). In 2020, she co-founded Mahogany Journal, an online literary journal that platforms South Asian writers in Singapore, and currently serves as its fiction editor. As a Tamil Singaporean herself, Prasanthi hopes to write more fiction that places her community on the literary map. She also hopes to raise a dog and live near the coast someday.

Praise
“There is so much to appreciate in Prasanthi Ram’s debut collection, Nine Yard Sarees. As a portrait of a family, these stories connect to form a layered narrative about women, migration and identity. As a work of diaspora fiction about the Tamil-Brahmin community in Singapore, these connecting stories comment on questions of belonging and the pertinent tension between tradition and modernity. Ram writes with precision and clarity about this family while also treating the characters with the warmth and compassion that they deserve. Shifting narrative perspectives and covering a wide landscape of time and geographic space, Nine Yard Sarees confronts diaspora in all its complexity. A thoroughly enjoyable and meaningful work of fiction about family, community and the reverberations of migration and displacement.”
—Balli Kaur Jaswal
Author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

“A gripping, masterfully crafted work that is both haunting and comforting. I read it in one night.”
—Akshita Nanda
Co-winner of the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize in English Fiction

“Populated by a rich cast of characters you immediately fall in love with, these linked stories are bursting at the seams with tenderness and heart.”
—Cheryl Julia Lee
Author of We Were Always Eating Expired Things
Asst. Professor of English, Nanyang Technological University

“In Nine Yards Sarees, you are welcomed into the intimate universe of an Iyer family in Singapore and to life in Singapore—a narrative that is so vivid, that you would feel you are breaking bread with them at the dining table. The stories are interwoven and yet stand-alone whilst navigating tradition and modernity, acting as a mirror to every migrant’s soul.”
—Dr Anitha Devi Pillai
Author, Academic and Translator

“The madisar, the eponymous nine-yard saree, weaves these stories together beautifully and artfully, these stories about Tamil Brahmin women living mostly in Singapore, but also living, in Prasanthi Ram’s deft, sensitive and humorous telling, in full, human complexity in their loves and hates, joys and sorrows, envies and regrets. Nine Yard Sarees is an uncommonly rich and precise debut, closely observed, magically empathetic and formally ambitious. If you love the stories of Jhumpa Lahiri and Alice Munro, you will love these stories.”
—Jee Leong Koh
Winner of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction

“Nine Yard Sarees is a family portrait that tells the story of the Srinivasans, a family from Kalakad, India, who immigrate to Singapore in search of a better life. The book follows their lives over the course of several decades, as they navigate the challenges of adjusting to new lands, identities and cultures while trying to maintain traditions. The stories unfold through the perspectives of nine women who recount tales of their parents, grandparents, siblings and loved ones. Comprising eleven interlinked stories, this well-written book offers a unique perspective on the immigrant experience. Nine Yard Sarees expresses the power of family, the fortitude of women, and the resilience of the human spirit.”
—Latha
Author of The Goddess in the Living Room

2023 - 272 pages - 13 X 20 cm - SGD$22 (before GST) - ISBN (paperback): 978-981-18-6035-5 - ISBN (e-book): 978-981-18-6036-2

Teo You YENN

The New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

About the Book
What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try?
The way we frame our questions shapes the way we see solutions. This book does what appears to be a no-brainer task, but one that is missing and important: it asks readers to pose questions in different ways, to shift the vantage point from which they view ‘common sense,’ and in so doing, to see themselves as part of problems and potential solutions. This is a book about how seeing poverty entails confronting inequality. It is about how acknowledging poverty and inequality leads to uncomfortable revelations about our society and ourselves. And it is about how once we see, we cannot, must not, unsee.

About the Author
TEO You Yenn received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is Associate Professor and Provost’s Chair in Sociology at Nanyang Technological University. Her work has been published in journals such as Economy and Society, Signs, Social Politics, and Development and Change. She is the author of Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society (Routledge, 2011). She is recipient of NTU’s Nanyang Education Award (2013) and the American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section’s Feminist Scholar Activist Award (2016). In 2018, for her contribution to igniting a national conversation on poverty and inequality with the book This is What Inequality Looks Like (2018), she was named a Finalist in the Straits Times Singaporean of the Year Award.

Praise
An exceptionally high rating on Goodreads by readers of the book.
This book is a remarkable rarity—a vivid ethnography of the lives, dreams and disappointments of low-income Singaporeans, skillfully intertwined with the implicit and explicit mental ideologies, social structures and bureaucratic institutions that both bind and separate us from each other. Delivered in slender, evocative prose with insight and empathy, yet informed by analytical distance and infused with theoretical rigor, it shows that the lives of our often-forgotten fellow citizens reveal larger truths about ourselves and our society, and the nature of humanity in our affluent post-industrial state. The highly accessible narrative both touches the heart and engages the mind, and deserves to become the basis for a wide-ranging public discourse on the soul of our nation.
—Linda Lim, Professor Emerita of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

With courage, integrity and scientific tools, Teo You Yenn enters the hidden abode of inequality. Immersing herself in the underside of Singapore society, she makes the invisible visible – contrasting the hardships and precarity of family life, schooling, parenting, housing among low income residents with the taken-for-granted comforts of the middle class. She disrupts widely-held national mythologies, calling attention to the defects of Singapore’s welfare state and how these might be repaired. Sociology at its best!
—Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

This is what inequality looks like is a masterfully crafted text. Consciously avoiding academic frames, Teo You Yenn’s ethically and politically grounded narrative unfolds through vignettes of lived experiences that stand in sharp, stark contrast to the dominant imaginings of Singaporeans as mobile, cosmopolitan, free, agentic, affluent global citizens. Drawing on everyday lives of individuals and families, privileging their voices through the choice of ethnography—the book’s ten chapters communicate the pathos and experiences of being poor and living under conditions of inequality in a cosmopolitan city-state. The book’s lens is focused critically on popular, academic and state discourses about Singapore society. The book is a much needed intervention in hitherto un-problematised, taken-for-granted conclusions about poverty (its absence and then its causes), about inequalities, about responsibilities of the state and social structures in Singapore—regnant amongst Singaporeans—academics included. The book will no doubt resonate globally and has obvious analytical reverberations that are delivered through the empirical richness of a veiled segment of everyday Singaporean lives. The book disturbs deliberately, asking difficult questions that demand considered moral responses, highlighting above all the role of institutional structures in producing the context for the unfolding of experiences of poverty and inequality. Teo’s voice, heard powerfully and honestly throughout the text, is a provocation; each page is etched with an inspiration and moral compulsion to engage—an invitation that is impossible to resist.
—Vineeta Sinha, Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore

This is What Inequality Looks Like is a refreshing, provocative, eye-opening book that is written with passion and insight. Highly readable and accessible, it will make for stimulating reading for anyone interested in the problems of poverty and inequality in and beyond Singapore. Teo’s work is grounded in sociological sensitivity and shaped by three years of intimate interactions with Singapore’s poor. This book disrupts the image of Singapore as merely a place of prosperity and progress and points instead to the day-to-day experiences of Singapore’s disadvantaged residents, the challenges they face, and the embedded presumptions about them that undermine their access to assistance with dignity. Teo invites her readers to confront inequality head on and to consider where they fit into the social matrix. Singapore’s overly-simplistic discourses of “social inclusion” and “the greater good,” she argues, serve in fact to valorize the market and self-reliance at the expense of meaningful and transformative change aimed at reducing social inequalities.
—Nicole Constable, Professor of Anthropology and Research Professor in the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh

This is a remarkable book in so many ways. Teo You Yenn encourages all of us who live in Singapore to ask hard questions about the structural and psychic elements of inequality, and to challenge the comforting and yet ultimately self-defeating stories that many of us who have benefitted from Singapore’s economic progress tell ourselves. This is What Inequality Looks Like is also beautifully written. It is an inspirational model of how an academic scholar can address a popular audience through a deep reflection on her position as a Sociologist, inviting readers to embark on parallel learning journeys commencing in the often overlooked experiences of people who inhabit other social worlds.
—Philip Holden, Professor of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore

In this accessibly written and closely observed new book, Teo You Yenn takes the reader beyond the statistics and into the everyday lives of the less fortunate in Singapore. A timely and necessary book for a city in a hurry.
—Philip Gorski, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

2019 - 312 pages - 15 X 22 cm - S$26.00 (before GST) - ISBN (paperback): 978-981-14-0595-2

Nina MARTINEZ

DAWWANG: KABABAIHANG TAGAPAGTANGGOL NG KORDILYERA by Gantala Press and Nina Martinez is the Filipino version of this comics that was also published in English and German under the Movements and Moments: Feminist Generations project of the Goethe Institut-Indonesien. It documents the victorious struggle of indigenous peoples in Northern Philippines against the building of the destructive Chico Dam by the World Bank during Martial Law.

2021 - 48 pages - 7 x 11 cm - € 7.00

Amanda SOCORRO LACABA ECHANIS

BINHI NG PAGLAYA is a collection of poems, stories, essays, letters, and a play by a writer/peasant women organizer who was wrongfully arrested by state forces in December 2020.

2023 - 176 pages - 6 x 8 cm - € 6.00

MAKISAWSAW: RECIPES X IDEAS (Community Gardens Edition) edited by Karla Rey, Joyce Santos, and Carissa Pobre continues the conversation surrounding the food we eat, in the context of solidarity with the urban poor and small farmers. Recognizing the power of food to bridge differences, and inspired by the dream of making agroecological food gardens as common as sari-sari stores, this cookbook features 70+ plant-based recipes that invite you to eat and act in solidarity—from the garden to the kitchen. In it, we connect chefs and cooks, urban poor growers, small farmers, community workers, food justice activists, and healers and restorers of many kinds.

2021 - 144 pages - 6 x 9 cm - € 7.00

Ibiso GRAHAM-DOUGLAS

Journey through the intricacies of life in the COVID era with this rich tapestry of short stories and poems. Eight esteemed and emerging storytellers spin narratives that traverse the landscapes of Nigeria and its diaspora, offering profound insights into the essence of our shared humanity. Witness the unravelling of a man’s secret at his funeral and the tale of a migrant grappling with despair amidst lockdown in the USA. In Pidgin English, an eavesdropper at a funeral reflects on COVID’s impact on his marriage as a young woman confronts the aftermath of a botched plastic surgery. Experience a lawyer’s efforts as he struggles to free his wrongfully imprisoned client, alongside the inner turmoil of a psychiatrist battling her own mental health issues. Immerse yourself in the journey of an abandoned wife as she forges a new reality, complemented by poems that echo the diverse emotions woven into personal and collective struggles.

2024 - 176 pages - 8,5 X 5,5 cm - $15 - ISBN: 978-978- 78501-7-6

Michael AFENFIA

Through the eyes of Owoicho, a television presenter seeking a better life for himself and his family, Leave My Bones in Saskatoon spans two cultures and continents. It is honest, heartfelt and enlightening.
The story begins with Owoicho’s good news. He can’t wait to tell his family that their permanent residency application to Canada was successful. But while he was in Abuja, happy about this breakthrough, somewhere on the outskirts of Makurdi, a dark and troubling event threatens to torpedo all the plans he and his wife, Ene, made to move the family to Saskatoon.

2023 - 275 pages - 8,5 X 5,5 cm -$15 - ISBN: 978-978-796-603-7

Chimeka GARRICKS

Its 2004 Port Harcourt, Nigeria, at the height of the kidnap of oil workers in the Niger Delta, a kidnapping goes awry, and four lives are reconnected. Douye, aka Doughboy, the career militant responsible for the crime, and Amaibi, the gentle university professor/eco-warrior accused. Kaniye, the lawyer turned restaurateur, who tries to get him off, and Tubo, an amoral oil company executive. Against a backdrop of corrupt practices, failed systems and injustice, these four friends tell the story of oil in a region and its effects on local communities and the larger Nigerian society.

2010 - 285 pages - 8,5 X 5,5 cm -$15 - ISBN: 978-978-975-689-6

Shih-Li KOW

This cross-genre collection of twenty-five short stories and flash fiction pieces explores relationships and periods of transition.
A mother questions the limits of her responsibility to her husband and son. A man operates a leaf blower during Chinese New Year, leading to tragic consequences. In speculative stories, a demolition worker dreams of clean air while Kuala Lumpur decays, and a cooking robot attempts to perfect its fried rice for a grieving family.
These characters navigate displacement and uncertainties in pursuit of better lives.
By the award-winning author of Ripples and Other Stories and the novel The Sum of Our Follies, this new collection boldly imagines scenarios we can only dream of – while subtly tethering us to Malaysian realities we can only sigh at.

Shih-Li Kow is the author of two short story collections and a novel. Ripples and Other Stories was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her second book, The Sum of Our Follies, is also available in Italian, French and Bulgarian. The French edition (tr. Frederic Grellier) won the 2018 Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Her latest collection is Bone Weight and Other Stories. She lives in Kuala Lumpur.

256 pages - US$12.50 - ISBN: 978-967-0042-88-6
Short Stories

Nadia KHAN

“The road less traveled really is hard. There’s no map, no manual. It’s just you trying to figure things out as you go along, all the while hoping you don’t lose yourself or your humanity.”
After suffering from a tragedy, Abby picks up the pieces of her broken self while still being plagued by the consequences of her impulsive actions. But words from the millennial bible – “Adulting is hard” – follow her like a curse as she struggles to not fall into the trap of bad decisions.
Children We Never Had is a story of profound loss and interesting findings.

Nadia Khan is an ex-doctor, psychologist and lecturer who is now living the dream as an author, screenwriter and filmmaker. She lives a low-maintenance life in Shah Alam with her soulmate and is constantly in a dilemma between travelling the world and owning a cat. In 2024 she made her film directing debut with The Musketeer Code, adapted from her own bestselling novel Gantung and its sequel.

252 pages - US$13.15 - ISBN: 9789670042695
Fiction / Contemporary Romance

Deric EEE

KL NOIR: MAGIC marks the resurrection of the notorious KL Noir series. The editor Deric Ee selects 20 original stories that bring you through the crimes and tribulations of life in Kuala Lumpur. There will be a bar hostess with a secret, a crisis in a minibus, well-dressed pontianaks, junkies discovering a new high, vampire slayers, and even an honest taxi driver. This time round, redemption may no longer be such an elusive thing.

Deric Ee is a writer, editor, and arts manager with a background in event pro-duction. He developed his skills through stints at creative agency Keepers Stu-dio, arts and culture publication The Daily Seni, placemaking consultancy lab-DNA, and the 9^th George Town Literary Festival. He is a Committee Member of PEN Malaysia.

288 pages - US$12.15 - ISBN: 9789672328483
Fiction Anthology / Crime

Text: Banhi BEPARI; Illustrations: Sabyasachi MISTRY

A Massive Clash in the Sundarbans! A tiger has attacked a deer. In the trial of the jungle cock and the crocodile, it was revealed that the tiger is not at fault. One by one, many animals including mosquitoes, monkeys, parrots, and tortoises were called. But at the end of the trial, it was seen that the biggest culprit is a foolish creature.

24 pages - 11 X 8,20 cm - ISBN: 978 984 97585 2 5

Reesham SHAHAB TIRTHO

A series of picture book showcased a journey of new parents.
Artist portrayed his new born daughter everyday activities in humorous drawings and illustrations in this book.

64 pages - 7 X 7 cm - ISBN: 978 984 81322 6 5
Language: Bengali

Text: Farzana TANNEE; Illustrations: Lamia AZAD, Shamim AHMED

Amidst the darkness, countless flickers spark curiosity in Aung. Are they ghosts? Taking his sister’s hand, he fearlessly sets out to find the friendly ghosts behind the glow. Let’s join their enchanting adventure!

20 pages - 6 X 6 cm - ISBN: 978 984 97861 6 0
Also available in Bengali

Vaso VEKRI

“Back street” is the first book of Vaso Vekri. A crime fiction novel. With heroes like human islands, moving in the transitions of life. The truth is not always what it seems. Or, rather, the truth is before us, but we do not see it. A love story beyond death unfolds in the book.
“They killed him at noon, on the street. They raked him in front of the crowd and nobody knows anything”. A prisoner is murdered during one of his leaves. And his psychiatrist partner starts a journey with the motorbike, so she could see, remember, understand... What can the task assigned to her have to do with the murder? And how clean is the Professor of Psychiatry? How much does the infamous - inside and outside of prison - Black know? In a parallel coming-of-age journey, a young musician, struggling with his personal demons, will come face to face with dangerous secrets.

Chrysoula GEORGOULA

The book “Call me Stratos” is the first novel by Chrysoula Georgoula. Through the actions and memories of the main protagonist, Greece is described during the prosperity of the Olympic Games, but also after the economic crisis. Questions are posed such as: Are violence, discrimination and racism a consequence of the economic crisis or are they components of established social life, who find the opportunity to emerge on the occasion of the situation? Is a reversal of the tide possible, or will our society sooner or later be forced to relive its history?
After his dramatic divorce and at the age of forty-two, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and his also divorced brother. Humiliated and cut off from family and friends, he drinks uncontrollably and reminisces about the past: his construction work, his marriage to Sotiria and their children, the carefree years of fake wealth and parties, his extramarital affair and the end of it, the post-Olympic years of unemployment and his alcohol addiction, the privately owned Tsunami car wash and financial ruin, and finally his involvement with the “pure-blooded Greeks”.

Georgia TATSI

Georgia Tatsi was born in 1952. She studied directing and worked at ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) from 1976 to 2003. She published short stories in collective volumes and literary magazines. Her book Dancing in glasses, in its first release was nominated for the Prize for Literature in the Short Story – Novellete category.
Alexander arrives in Malmo, Sweden. He cleans windows for a living, climbing the city’s towering glass buildings with a cage. A letter from Greece turns his teenage memories into hell and awakens his lust for revenge.
Tasos is a police officer in the Athens Security Services. The two men will meet in a dance of death, dancing in glasses. The first dancer leaves the ground, steps on the glasses to rise and…
The tragedy of History, the tragedy of individuality in its involvement with History.
“Dancing in glasses”, then years after its first edition, is being republished by Vakxikon Publications.

Aleksandar PROKOPIEV

Homunkulus: postmodern fairy tales for grownups
Homunculus is billed as a collection of sixteen “fairy tales for adults” with something for every reader. The author has largely retained the classical fairy-tale structure with its elements of surprise and the constant intertwining of the real and unreal, but he transcends the sugar-sweet endings we are familiar with. Prokopiev presents us with a wide range of more “mature” themes too – the erotic, the tragic, feelings of alienation. Some of the stories are related to internationally known fairy tales such as “Tom Thumb”, where the main character struggles with an oedipal bond with his mother, or “The Huntsman”, told from the perspective of the hunter sent out to kill Snow White. Others go back to Macedonian folk roots or have been freely composed by Prokopiev himself.

Aleksandar Prokopiev born on February 24, 1953 in Skopje is a Macedonian Ph. D. in comparative literature and literary theory. He is also notable as a writer, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is considered to be one of most acclaimed macedonian writers. He is two time nominated for prestigous literature award Balkanika.
Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of literature award Balkanika in 2012 for his novel Homunkulus. Aleksandar Prokopiev is winner of Bulgarian literature award Helikon.
Finished postgraduate education in 1982 in Sorbonne, France. His works are translated in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and many other languages.

2011 - ISBN: 978-608-223-058-0

Ermis LAFAZANOVSKI

“Hrapeško”: novel about the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love
Hrapeško, an experienced wine-grower, lives somewhere in the region of Tikveš, at the time of the 19^th century. Until one day he leaves the epicentre of the Balkans and goes on his travels, to the West and to the East. Far away from home he learns a new profession and becomes famous. Humorous and serious at the same time the author tells of Hrapeško’s fortunes and mishaps, of the art of creating and survival, of aspirations and dreams, of vitality and love, of the homeland and foreign countries.

PhD Ermis Lafazanovski is a short-stories writer, literary essays, and anthropology studies writer. In 2001 he received the ‘Stale Popov’ Award of the Macedonian Writers’ Association for the novel “Portrayer”, and in 2003 he received Prose Masters for the novel The Novel About Weapons. His novel Hrapeško was nominated in 2006 as the Macedonian representative for the Balkanika Award. He is a member of the Writers’ Association of Macedonia. He was president of the Macedonian PEN Center (2014-2017).

2006 - ISBN: 9989-144-82-6

Branislav NIKOLOV (artistic name: Drunken NIGHTINGALE)

Polygraph is the third poetry book by Branislav NIkolov (Drunken Nightingale).
Branislav Nikolov is one of the most original poetry voices in North Macedonia.
As Macedonian writer and critic, Olivera Kjorveziroska says, Branislav Nikolov’s poetry is “…an impressive “erotomaniac” collection of poems that is in figth with the current loveless times, communicating with the most beautiful poetic tradition in our region”.
Several of his poems are texts of the songs performed by the most famous art band in North Macedonia, Foltin, where Nikolov is the singer.

Pijan Slavej (aka Branislav Nikolov) is a renowned musician, performer, songwriter, poet, singer and frontman of the group Foltin. He was born in 1971 in Bitola. As one of the founders and key members of the band, he has nine studio releases, as well as music for over thirty theatrical performances and several documentary and feature films, including the Oscar nominee “Honeyland”, the internationally acclaimed “Secret Ingredient”, “Avec L’Amour”, “Cash & Marry” etc. He has performed in Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Montenegro, England, Lebanon, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Czech Republic. Nikolov has received many recognitions and awards for his creative work. He is, without a doubt, one of the most original and charismatic individuals on Macedonian music scene today, known for his spontaneous, explosive, warm and passionate live performances. Apart from his work with Foltin, he has performed with Macedonian Philharmonic and has two poetry books published. Pijan Slavej is his first solo outing in music and poetry.

2022 - ISBN: 978-608-256-118-9

Barbora BARONOVÁ, Dita PEPE

The stylized artistic literary and photographic documentary project Intimacy opens up important personal and social issues in women’s lives, such as disability, prostitution, depression, cancer, and dying. Individuals are often unable to respond to these topics in direct confrontation other than with stereotypes and prejudices. Intimacy seeks to describe some habitual patterns of behaviour and demonstrate their real content through the stories of six specific women. The book-object contains one book of text and six photographic notebooks with flaps and coated embossed motifs. The book got the highest Czech award Magnesia Litera for the publishing achievement and received the 2^nd place within Fine-press and Artist´s Books Category in The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2015. The book was also shortlisted for the Les Prix du Livre – Prix Photo-Texte at Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2016 in France and at the 28^th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2018 in the Czech Republic.

2015 - 588 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-905239-3-7
Price: 698 CZK
Published in Czech only

Barbora BARONOVÁ; Dita PEPE

The publication Voices of Women: Australia brings twenty-two narratives of prominent Australian women artists, writers, filmmakers, activists, photographers, scientists, politicians, and journalists, exploring themes inherent in women regardless of their different cultures, such as their status, career options, and the expectations placed on them. The book is based on interviews recorded during Barbora’s research stay at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in 2017. Among the people telling their stories is prominent feminist Anne Summers, who describes her own abortion as one of the moments that initiated her activism. Anthropology professor Diane Bell tells the story of a struggle for respect for women in science. Alison Whittaker’s story is the tale of a young Australian lesbian poet’s journey from rural communities to Harvard Law. Publisher Susan Hawthorne thematises her transition from an employee at the global publishing house Penguin to a publisher of non-mainstream titles. The story of Olga Horak and Halina Robinson reflects the topic of the Holocaust – while Olga survived five concentration camps, Halina was thrown over the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto and was on the run from the Nazis for eighteen months. Barbora Baronova and Dita Pepe’s documentary book on Australia is part of a free-form literary and photographic series, Voices of Women, in which the authors explore the lives of contemporary women from diverse parts of the world.

2021 - 522 pages - 17 X 24 cm - price: 1 390 CZK
Published in English and Czech

Dita PEPE et al.

Borders of Love is a photographic and literary book from internationally renowned Czech photographer Dita Pepe that in thirteen chapters investigates the borders of love, trauma as motivation to create art, and photography as therapy. In this publication, which is also the creative part of her doctoral thesis at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Dita combines an artistic approach with scientific research. She worked on the publication with many interesting artists and researchers as well as people who analyzed the topic from purely personal perspectives and experiences. Besides photos, the book contains dozens of texts in many forms – interviews, reports, personal diaries, letters, short stories, essays, passages from lectures, and specialized texts through which Dita together with invited guests look at various forms of love. These are interlaced with her photos – self-portraits, archival family photos, stylized portraits, photo collages, documentary photos, still lifes… The photographic part of the book typically involves an almost obsessive examination and repetition of motifs with the same form and content to strengthen the feeling of order and clarity the author would like in her life. The book is being published in a small printing of 700 in a Czech–English version as a cooperation between wo-men publishing and Tomas Bata University in Zlín.

2021 - 804 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-907641-5-6
Price: 1 590 CZK
Published in English and Czech

Wijaya HERLAMBANG

“When normality is built atop mass graves, and secured by terror and lies, a moral vacuum is inevitable. Wijaya Herlambang brilliantly analyses both the historical development and discursive dynamics of this vacuum.”
— Joshua Oppenheimer, director of the award-winning documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence

The persistence of anti-communism in Indonesia was not only a result of years of political campaigning by the New Order regime, but also of cultural aggression against communism, particularly through the justification of the violence against the alleged communist members in 1965-1966.
By discussing how the New Order and its cultural agents utilised cultural products –literary works, school textbooks and films—in legitimating violence against communists, this book attempts to explore the ways in which the 1965-1966 massacre was normalised.
A controversial bestseller upon its release, this book reveals the previously unknown ties between Indonesian literary giants like Goenawan Mohamad and Mochtar Lubis with CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom and its agents in Asia. It also analyses the resistance of contemporary cultural organizations in Indonesia against the anti-communist legacies of the New Order.

November 2013 (first published); third edition - 334 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR85,000 - ISBN: 978 979 1260 43 5

Mahfud IKHWAN

Winner of the Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2017

“This is a story that happened not so long ago. A grim tale full of blood. Just about two times village chief’s elections ago, probably right after the government party won for the first time against Islamic party around here.”

Thus how Warto Kemplung began his story to whoever wanted to listen to him on the coffee stall: a love story between Mat Dawuk and Inayatun, an ugly withdrawn youngster and a beautiful flirtatious girl—controversial couple disdained by their own neighborhood, with social life in a remote Javanese village as a background, an idyllic life that was transformed heavily by cash crop, illegal logging and job as migrant workers in Malaysia.
The problem is: was there any truths on Warto’s story, or was it just a babbling nonsense to cover up his own past?
A powerful novel told with humor, actions and rhytms of Hindi movies—from the erudite pen of a rising star in Indonesian literary scene.

June 2017 (first published); third printing - 182 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR58,000 - ISBN 978-979-1260-69-5

Saras DEWI

Environmental ethics and movements have accurately demonstrated the various damages and degradation of nature due to human activities. The anthropocentric worldview has been blamed as the source of disequilibrium between men and nature.
However, ethical approach to the problem of disequilibrium is no longer sufficient. There must be a new and vigorous method to solve the crux of the matter. Ecophenomenology proposes new ontology towards human and nature. Through the philosophies of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, ecophenomenology aims to a more rigorous argument to investigate the relation between human and nature, enables us to think a more radical problem of disequilibrium.
“[The author] believes that philosophy is conscience, and intellectual arguments were built upon that. This book was written to defend Benoa Bay from the threat of reclamation.” — Bali Post

March 2015 (first published); second printing - 172 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR54,000 - ISBN: 978 979 1260 42 8