Catalyst Press

A diagnosis. A decision. A daughter's relentless fight for her mother's dignity, in life and in death. Chloe Cartwright is an eccentric, prize-winning writer, who has always been more focused on...

Brittle Paper's "Anticipated African Books of 2024"From Short Story Day Africa, eleven writers from Africa and the African diaspora explore the identities that connect us, the obsessions that bewitch...

From beloved Congolese comics creator Barly Baruti and Belgian comics critic Thierry Bellefroid, translated from the original French by Batchelder Award-winning translator Ivanka Hahnenberger A...

Dissent, disease, disaster: introducing Disruption, a short story collection from new and emerging African writers, many for the first time on North American shelves. Spanning genres, eras, and the...

Fly high, Lolo! In this fourth installation of Niki Daly's Lolo early reader series, Lolo joins the school play, meets a beauty queen, goes on a beach clean-up, and gets resourceful at Christmastime...

Halley'S CometAuthor: Hannes BarnardPublisher: Catalyst PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946395552ISBN-13: 9781946395559

A diverse chorus of female voices recount misadventures with love, husbands, and in-laws. A collection of short fiction from South Africa.Author: Reneilwe MalatjiPublisher: Catalyst PressPublication...

From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters-and her community--through times of drought and violence in...

From award winning children's writer Niki Daly, author and illustrator of the Lolo early reader series Whether it's jumping in puddles with Tata in the rain, greeting the neighborhood cat on the...

Outside the LinesAuthor: Ameera PatelPublisher: Catalyst PressPublication Date: Jun 09, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946395358ISBN-13: 9781946395351

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING ANIMATION TEAM BEHIND THE FILMS KHUMBA, ZAMBEZIA, AND SEAL TEAM2024 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens2023 ALA Best Graphic Novels for ChildrenPearl has always felt more...

Small MerciesAuthor: Bridget KronePublisher: Catalyst PressPublication Date: February 25, 2020Number of Pages: 162 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1946395161ISBN-13: 9781946395160

When Boipelo Seku learns about a man who traded his way from a paperclip to a house, he starts a trade of his own in his small village of Cedarville, South Africa, accidentally setting in motion a...

Big-hearted, kaleidoscopic, and honest, The Enumerations explores the far-reaching legacies of mental illness and trauma, and the children left to pick up the pieces of their parents' emotional lives...

The Farm (African Crime Reads Series)Author: Max AnnasPublisher: Catalyst PressPublication Date: September 15, 2020Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The History Of ManAuthor: Siphiwe Gloria NdlovuPublisher: Catalyst PressPublication Date: Jan 25, 2022Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946395560ISBN-13:...

Me against my brother. Stories exploring the world of Somalia leading up to its explosive religious and ethnic war.Author: Ahmed Ismail YusufPublisher: Catalyst PressPublication Date: Jun 19,...

Unmaking GraceAuthor: Barbara BoswellPublisher: Catalyst PressPublication Date: December 10, 2019Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946395234ISBN-13: 9781946395238

No matter where she goes, or how big she grows, Wanjiku knows her name. In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Giku~yu~ girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows,...