Arja Salafranca crafts an intimate portrait of identity and belonging through a series of lyrical essays in Salt in the Red Cappuccino. From her Spanish-South African childhood to journeys across continents, and from family histories to a profound exploration of queer awakening and love, Salafranca reveals how our stories shape who we become. This masterful collection offers wisdom about the ongoing quest to understand ourselves and our place in the world.
The River is a Book
A memoir of rivers, friendship and purpose, tracing a life devoted to understanding rivers and seeking ways for people and rivers to thrive together.
The River is a Book is both a personal story and a first-hand account of some of the people who are helping to make rivers part of the conversation.
"If you’ve ever marvelled as you dip your hands into the cool waters of a river or stream, this is definitely a book for you." John Yeld, Ecologist, South Africa
Bark Bite Kisses is a multi-generational novel about the quiet cost of loving a person, a country, a life, and the question every woman must answer: how much of yourself can you give before you have to leave?
Bridges
Spanning continents and centuries, Bridges braids history and fiction to reveal how bridges are both feats of engineering and vessels of memory. From the Roman Pont du Gard to the Millau Viaduct, from the Drina to the Bloor Street Viaduct and Maputo–Katembe, the book follows workers, engineers, nuns, poets, truckers, and migrants whose lives converge on steel, stone, rope, and water. Lyrical and deeply researched, it explores connection and rupture as well as power, faith, grief, love, and labour and shows how motion is emotion and how every crossing changes us. A luminous meditation on the architectures that carry us between past and future.
The Worldbreaker’s Name
The Worldbreaker’s Name is the first novel in an epic fantasy trilogy features a unique magic system and draws inspiration from broad-based African mythology to create a world rich in culture and myth; a world threatened by mysterious monsters and ancient secrets. A diverse cast of morally grey characters are pitted against world-ending stakes in an immersive, fast-paced narrative with clever plot twists.