Titles

Aflame Books is an independent publisher based in the UK. It publishes, in English translation, works from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East; works whose brilliance has been hidden from the English-speaking world by the barriers of culture and language

Available Titles
Forthcoming Titles

The Whistler
Ondjaki

A magical tale of laughter, unmitigated hope and the beauty of unadorned music from Angola

Taxi
Khaled Al Khamissi

Egypt and its people seen in conversations with Cairo's taxi drivers

The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg
Sibusiso Nyembezi

A Zulu classic in which a city trickster brings change to a village on the edge of apartheid in rural South Africa

Final Silence
Ronald Flores

A psychological drama set in the aftermath of Guatemala's civil war. A torturer seeks treatment from a psychologist whose usual patients are victims of torture

Cadence of the Moon
Óscar Nuñez Olivas

A Costa Rican journalist must confront the nature of her profession in the search for a psychopathic killer

Fear of Animals
Enrique Serna

A deliriously corrosive satire that portrays Mexico's literary establishment to be as corrupt and hypocritical as the despised police force

Che in Verse
Edited by Gavin O'Toole and Georgina Jiménez

Poets from 53 countries pay tribute to this 20th century icon of revolution

The Riddle of Qaf
Alberto Mussa

A journey through the Arabian desert with the poet Al-Gatash who reveals the origins of language and the circular quest for love

Hornets' Nest
Edyr Augusto

Revenge, corruption, sex, murder in cinematic prose set in the heart of Brazil's Amazon

Equatoria
Tom Dreyer

Search for a mystical animal takes two English naturalists through the Congo on a journey of taxonomic arrogance

Symphony of the Dead
Abbas Maroufi

A disturbing, powerful novel that became an instant classic when first published in Iran

Mahala
Chris Barnard

One of the most fascinating novels written in Afrikaans, by the man who 'discovered'
Breyten Breytenbach

From the Darkness
Oswaldo Salazar

A patriarchal society must come to terms with a violent crime by a woman with no other means of expression

Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent
Pepetela

A post-modern satire with a 007 namesake, an incompetent, overweight detective, out to solve a murder

Halala Madiba: Nelson Mandela in Poetry
Edited by Richard Bartlett and Raks Seakhoa

A collection of almost 100 poems which reflect Mandela's place in South Africa's history and popular culture

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