We walked and dozed in Umberto Pasti's garden with Eden Revisited a few years ago; now we wander his house amongst his treasures - tiles, carpets, textiles... All beautifully photographed t... read more
Ada is not one woman but many: from the Ada that gives birth in pre-colonial west-Africa to a young pregnant Ghanaian arriving in C21st Berlin. Translated from the German.
Nubia and Egypt, the empires of the Sudan, the kingdoms of Ethiopia and Benin and those of the Asante, Yoruba, Hausa and Zulus... Nine scholars on African kingship; some illustrations.
In two volumes: the photographs in part 1 were taken in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020. Those in part 2 were taken at a sanctuary in Bolivia in 2022. (Each volume is available individually,... read more
9000BC years ago there were pastoral economies; by 3000BC the desert reasserted itself. A fascinating study of human adaptability in the face of early climate change and geophysical influenc... read more
Enayat al-Zayyat was a young Egyptian woman whose only novel was published posthumously in 1967. Here, one of Egypt's foremost poets creates a portrait not only of Enayat but of literary an... read more