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Upstairs, a Jim Otis mystery novel by David Benjamin Title: Upstairs, a Jim Otis mystery novel Author: David Benjamin Publisher: Last Kid Books ISBN, Price: 979-8994639009, $20 Buy here I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I started reading Upstairs. The novel launches immediately into a scene with two schoolboys fighting—one boy bullying the other, whipping him with a tree branch. The local police chief Jim Otis intervenes, perhaps a little dramatically, and the bully runs off,...

For #ReadingAfrica 2025, we have asked a few writers to write guest posts, recommending books from different genres. Feel free to join us over on social media for the weeklong celebration of African writing in all its forms. By Mphuthumi Ntabeni     There are few genres in African literature as morally charged, as historically resonant, and as quietly revolutionary as historical fiction. Through this form, the African writer often becomes both historian and prophet, re-remembering what was...

The Evolving Gaze Quarter One 2025 IHRAM Press International Human Rights Art Movement Curated and edited by Lisa Zammit First Literary...