Paperbooks

Black Mongoose published 28th March

We are pleased to be publishing Jon Haylett's second novel with Paperbooks 'Black Mongoose' at the end of March.

Of the book Jon has commented:

“My novel is a reaction to the barbarities perpetrated by corrupt politicians like Robert Mugabe, a man who has destroyed a potentially rich country in his greed for wealth. It stresses the misery such regimes have inflicted upon their people – to give but one statistic, in 1960 the average life expectancy in Zimbabwe was 60, by 2006 this had fallen to 37 – yet leaders across the civilised world have condoned what has happened.”

Copies of Black Mongoose can now be pre-ordered via the online shop for £7.99.

Pre-order your copy now - £7.99 

Lucy

Unveiling for 2009... The Black Mongoose

Topical and brilliant, we're very excited about adding the following book to our list at the start of 2009 from Jon Haylett, author of the superb Cry of the Justice Bird:

The Black Mongoose

In Black Mongoose Jon Haylett writes about a country fictional African country, taking strands from Zimbabwe and Kenya. The book offers a novel solution to the problems created by current world dictators, making the book highly topical in today’s political environment. to be backed by a major promotional campaign, Black Mongoose provides a thought-provoking commentary on this contentious topic.

Author

*Winner of the 2003 Bridport International Short Story Prize and the 2005 Royal Society of Literature VS Pritchett Memorial Prize.*

Jon was born in East Africa and after being educated in England travelled and worked in the Caribbean and north, central and southern Africa. He now lives in the Scottish Highlands with his wife and four children and takes an active part in community life. He has been writing for eighteen years and has completed ten novels and forty short stories.

You can pre-order right here at a special discount:

Order your copy now - £5.99 

And you can also order a copy of the fantastic Cry of the Justice Bird:

Order your copy now - £5.99 

Tom