FORMAT: Trade Paperback
PUB DATE: August 2026
EXTENT: 336pp
ISBN: 978-1-0492-8755-3
E-ISBN: 978-1-0492-8756-0
RRP: R365
RIGHTS: World
CATEGORY: Narrative Nonfiction
Narrative Nonfiction
The Work of Women
A Pan-African History of Women Who Remade the World
By Dr Vashna Jagarnath
The Work of Women is a sweeping work of public history that brings the lives of Black and Pan-African women thinkers, organisers, workers, and freedom fighters out of the margins and into the centre of how we understand the modern world. From Sojourner Truth, Njinga Mbande, and Saartjie Baartman, to Kesaveloo Goonam, Ruth First, and bell hooks, this powerful work traces a Pan-African tradition of resistance forged through slavery, colonialism, labour, survival, and collective struggle.
These women were not isolated heroines. They were part of powerful movements that transformed communities, challenged systems of oppression, and shaped political thought across generations. Their courage, strategy, and vision continue to speak directly to the crises of the present.
At once urgent, accessible, and deeply researched, The Work of Women asks what becomes possible when we place women's labour, leadership, and intellectual traditions at the heart of history itself.
About the Author
Dr Vashna Jagarnath is a historian, political analyst, and labour movement strategist whose work focuses on Pan-Africanism, political economy, gender, and social transformation across Africa. With more than two decades of experience spanning academia, trade unions, governance, and policy, she is known for bridging rigorous scholarship with public engagement and political education. She has worked extensively within South Africa's labour movement, from grassroots organising to high-level policy and collective bargaining processes. A respected public intellectual, she regularly contributes analysis to Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick, Business Day, and The Conversation. Vashna lives in Johannesburg.
FORMAT: Trade Paperback
PUB DATE: September 2026
EXTENT: 290pp
ISBN: 978-1-0492-5661-0
E-ISBN: 978-1-0492-5662-7
RRP: R350
RIGHTS: Southern Africa
CATEGORY: Fiction
Fiction
The House in Bacolet
By David Lambert
British couple Hugh and Julia Pennington buy an old church to convert on a former cocoa plantation on a Caribbean island. When their estate agent fails to meet them at the airport, they accept a lift in a large American car from a charismatic local, Horatio. The couple are to become increasingly dependent on Horatio, who ends up moving into their servants' quarters but remains an enigma.
Hugh and Julia want to get involved in the life of their adopted island home. But they little suspect how much the past horrors of slavery, and their best intentions, will impact their lives. This tense psychological drama examines the delicate master-servant relationship against a Caribbean island's colonial background and a still simmering history of slavery.
An intimate portrait of a marriage, The House in Bacolet explores the difficulties of human communication and how these are compounded when race, sex, and culture-bound assumptions are added to the mix.
About the Author
Born in Trinidad and Tobago to a West Indian father and Irish mother, David Lambert grew up between the Caribbean, Canada, and the UK. A polyglot who speaks French, Russian, and Spanish, he has lived, worked, and travelled across the world as a tour guide in the former USSR, a Russian broadcast monitor for the BBC, and an English teacher in Europe, North Africa, and the Gulf. A published writer since 1994 and former creative writing lecturer, he has run writing retreats in south-west France since 2010. He writes novels, plays, poetry, and short stories inspired by travel and a lifelong curiosity about people and place. The House in Bacolet is his debut novel.
FORMAT: Paperback Original (Demy)
PUB DATE: August 2026
EXTENT: 258pp
ISBN: 978-1-0483-1403-8
E-ISBN: N/A
RRP: R335
RIGHTS: Southern Africa
CATEGORY: Business / Entrepreneurship/ Self-Help
Business / Entrepreneurship / Self-Help
Creative Cash Flow
Mastering Money, Business and Growth in the African Creative Economy
By Marie Lora-Mungai
Africa's creative sector contributes billions to the continent's GDP and supports millions of jobs, yet most of the entrepreneurs driving that growth have never had business training. Creative Cash Flow closes that gap.
Written by investor and industry insider Marie Lora-Mungai, this is a no-nonsense toolkit for African creative founders and operators who need to master revenue models, manage cash in volatile markets, monetize their intellectual property, raise the right kind of capital, and build businesses that last. It tackles the questions creatives rarely get straight answers to: Are you an artist, a founder, or a CEO? How do you speak “Financialese” without losing your soul? What is the “Prestige Poor” trap, and how do you escape it? How do you survive when your currency crashes and your costs spike overnight?
This is not a book about inspiration. It is a book about execution, written by someone who has sat on both sides of the table—as a founder raising capital and as an advisor helping institutions decide where to invest it.
Creative Cash Flow is for creators turning their craft into a business, founders running companies in media, fashion, music, film, design, gaming, or the creator economy, and for the operators, executives, investors, and policymakers who work alongside them.
About the Author
Marie Lora-Mungai is an investor and creative-industry insider with experience on both sides of the capital table: as a founder raising capital and as an advisor helping institutions decide where to invest it. Her work focuses on helping African creative founders and operators build resilient businesses across media, fashion, music, film, design, gaming, and the creator economy. She is also the author of Hustle & Flow.