An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African descent

New Daughters of Africa

Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 
 
A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class. 
 
Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us. 
 
The New Daughters of Africa 
 
Diane Abbott 
Yassmin Abdel-Magied 
Leila Aboulela 
Ayobami Adebayo 
Sade Adeniran 
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
Zoe Adjonyoh 
Patience Agbabi 
Agnès Agboton 
Candace Allen 
Lisa Allen-Agostini 
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 
Andaiye 
Harriet Anena 
Joan Anim-Addo 
Monica Arac de Nyeko 
Yemisi Aribisala 
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro 
Amma Asante 
Michelle Asantewa 
Nana Asma'u 
Sefi Atta 
Ayesha Harruna Attah 
Gabeba Baderoon 
Yaba Badoe 
Yvonne Bailey-Smith 
Doreen Baingana 
Ellen Banda-Aaku 
Angela Barry 
Mildred K. Barya 
Jackee Budesta Batanda 
Simi Bedford 
Linda Bellos 
Jay Bernard 
Marion Bethel 
Ama Biney 
Jacqueline Bishop 
Malorie Blackman 
Tanella Boni 
Malika Booker 
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 
Beverley Bryan 
Akosua Busia 
Candice Carty-Williams 
Rutendo Chabikwa 
Barbara Chase-Riboud 
Panashe Chigumadzi 
Gabrielle Civil 
Maxine Beneba Clarke 
Angela Cobbinah 
Carolyn Cooper 
Juanita Cox 
Meta Davis Cumberbatch 
Patricia Cumper 
Stella Dadzie 
Yrsa Daley-Ward 
Nana-Ama Danquah 
Edwidge Danticat 
Nadia Davids 
Tjawangwa Dema 
Yvonne Denis Rosario 
Anni Domingo 
Nah Dove 
Edwige-Renée Dro 
Camille T. Dungy 
Anaïs Duplan 
Reni Eddo-Lodge 
Aida Edemariam 
Esi Edugyan 
Summer Edward 
Yvvette Edwards 
Zena Edwards 
Safia Elhillo 
Zetta Elliott 
Nawal El Saadawi 
Diana Evans 
Bernardine Evaristo 
Eve L. Ewing 
Deise Faria Nunes 
Diana Ferrus 
Nikky Finney 
Aminatta Forna 
Ifeona Fulani 
Vangile Gantsho 
Roxane Gay 
Danielle Legros Georges 
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas 
Hawa Jande Golakai 
Wangui wa Goro 
Bonnie Greer 
Jane Ulysses Grell 
Rachel Eliza Griffiths 
Carmen Harris 
zakia henderson-brown 
Joanne C. Hillhouse 
Afua Hirsch 
Zita Holbourne 
Nalo Hopkinson 
Rashidah Ismaili 
Naomi Jackson 
Sandra Jackson-Opoku 
Delia Jarrett-Macauley 
Margo Jefferson 
Barbara Jenkins 
Catherine Johnson 
Ethel Irene Kabwato 
Elizabeth Keckley 
Fatimah Kelleher 
Donika Kelly 
Adrienne Kennedy 
Susan Nalugwa Kiguli 
Rosamond S. King 
Donu Kogbara 
Lauri Kubuitsile 
Goretti Kyomuhendo 
Beatrice Lamwaka 
Patrice Lawrence 
Andrea Levy 
Lesley Lokko 
Karen Lord 
Karen Ládípò Manyika 
Ros Martin 
Lebogang Mashile 
Isabella Matambanadzo 
NomaVenda Mathiane 
Imbolo Mbue 
Maaza Mengiste 
Arthenia Bates Millican 
Bridget Minamore 
Nadifa Mohamed 
Natalia Molebatsi 
Wame Molefhe 
Aja Monet 
Sisonke Msimang 
Blessing Musariri 
Glaydah Namukasa 
Marie NDiaye 
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi 
Wanjiku wa Ngugi 
Ketty Nivyabandi 
Elizabeth Nunez 
Selina Nwulu 
Trifonia Melibea Obono 
Nana Oforiatta Ayim 
Irenosen Okojie 
Nnedi Okorafor 
Juliane Okot Bitek 
Chinelo Okparanta 
Yewande Omotoso 
Makena Onjerika 
Chibundu Onuzo 
Tess Onwueme 
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor 
Louisa Adjoa Parker 
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida 
Alake Pilgrim 
Winsome Pinnock 
Hannah Azieb Pool 
Olúmìdé Pópó?lá 
Claudia Rankine 
H. Cordelia Ray 
Sarah Parker Remond 
Florida Ruffin Ridley 
Zandria F. Robinson 
Zuleica Romay Guerra 
Andrea Rosario-Gborie 
Leone Ross 
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 
Minna Salami 
Marina Salandy-Brown 
Sapphire 
Noo Saro-Wiwa 
Taiye Selasi 
Namwali Serpell 
Kadija Sesay 
Claire Shepherd 
Verene A. Shepherd 
Warsan Shire 
Lola Shoneyin 
Dorothea Smartt 
Zadie Smith 
Adeola Solanke 
Celia Sorhaindo 
Attillah Springer 
Andrea Stuart 
SuAndi 
Valerie Joan Tagwira 
Jennifer Teege 
Jean évenet 
Natasha Trethewey 
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma 
Hilda J. Twongyeirwe 
Chika Unigwe 
Yvonne Vera 
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers 
Kit de Waal 
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw 
Effie Waller Smith 
Rebecca Walker 
Ayeta Anne Wangusa 
Zukiswa Wanner 
Jesmyn Ward 
Verna Allette Wilkins 
Charlotte Williams 
Sue Woodford-Hollick 
Makhosazana Xaba 
Tiphanie Yanique

Busby opens the door wide and allows her readers to witness the conversations that have occurred between black women writers, conversations about culture, love, inheritance and more, without mediation from the powerful institutions of publishing and academia. The effect is marvellous. It is also necessary

An incredible introduction to black women's writing from around the world

This remarkable book constitutes a powerful affirmation of literary achievement, demonstrating that contemporary black women writers are part of a vital and extensive tradition

New Daughters of Africa is a beautiful, essential anthology. It is both long-awaited and urgently needed; it recognises the individual voices and interwoven histories of every facet of womanhood

New Daughters of Africa is indispensable because African voices have been silenced or diminished throughout history, and women's voices even more so

A seminal, international anthology . . . a selection of Africa&rsquo;s most compelling voices &ndash; poets, storytellers, rhetoricians &ndash; all commenting, critiquing and fantasising about a world opening its doors to let us in

Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 
 
A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class. 
 
Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.

Nouvelles Francaises

Parallel Text: French Short Stories

These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students. 
 
Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece &lsquo;Green Tobacco&rsquo; by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of &lsquo;The Ants&rsquo; by the post-war king of caf&eacute; society, Boris Vian, and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues.

The Penguin Book of the International Short Story

John Freeman (External Editor) John Freeman is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story and California Rewritten. Rabih Alameddine (External Editor) Rabih Alameddine has written nine books that have been translated into more than twenty languages. His most recent awards include the 2019 Dos Passos Prize, the 2021 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the 2025 National Book Award.

In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’, Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city from an impending earthquake. In ‘War of the Clowns’, Mozambique’s Mia Couto sketches a perfect allegory for our divided culture. In the predecessor story to her iconic novel The Vegetarian, Han Kang depicts a protagonist quietly undergoing an unlikely transformation in a high-rise in Seoul. A Colm Tóibín character thinks, ‘I do not even believe in Ireland’, while Carol Bensimon reflects from Brazil, ‘All great ideas seem like bad ones at some point’. Salman Rushdie brings us to unsettled rural India, Olga Tokarczuk to a circus exhibit, Abdellah Taïa to the queer Arab world, Ted Chiang to a far-off galaxy. 
 
For a long time, it was the norm for three quarters of the stories in international anthologies to be American or English. In this collection, the work of thoughtful and accomplished translators opens the door wide for those curious about what lies beyond the Western canon and classroom. Writers from six continents, ranging from new voices to literary icons, each offer a window into a distinct point of view, both transcending and illuminating their place of origin. They offer not only captivating prose, but a reminder of the power of the imagination across space and time.

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An Anthology

Step into the terrifying world of ghostly apparitions, grotesque monsters and terrible, creeping dread – but be careful, who knows if you'll make it out alive? 
 
This collection brings together ten of the greatest literary horror stories every written, from Mary Shelley’s iconic tale of a ‘body swap’ gone wrong, to Edgar Allen Poe's terrifying account of a great family’s downfall, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s chilling description of female subjugation. A treasure trove of scares and spooks, Classic Horror: An Anthology is a timeless celebration of all that curdles the blood and goes bump in the night …

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