A Road Less Traveled

As the year 2020 rolls into a new season, we at Ananke Press are thrilled to welcome a new author to our family. Roberta-Leigh Boud joins our publishing house with her debut novel, Jesus The Time Traveller — a courageous, thought-provoking and elegant work that challenges the boundaries of genre. Roberta, a Capetonian herself, has been compared in her cerebrally visceral delivery to another illustrious South African, J.M. Coetzee. There is a certain poetic continuity between Boud's deeply ...

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The Voice of the Goddess

These days, audiobooks are having a moment, with the global market growth predicted to increase by 25 per cent in 2020 to US$3.5 billion. We are thrilled to announce that our recent release, a historical novel The Witches of Riegersburg by Julie Anne Stratton, is now available as an audiobook. Beautifully narrated by a talented voice actor, Laurie Dietrich, it is certain to deliver hours of entertainment as well as thought-provoking ideas. If you have enjoyed The DaVinci Code, you will find ...

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Beginning Of A Story That Has Never Ended

Ananke Press is thrilled to announce the signing of our newest author, Julie Anne Stratton, with her series of historical novels that follow a line of extraordinary women through the ages. The first book in the series, The Witches of Riegersburg, is available in Kindle and paperback. The Author Julie Anne Stratton was born in Seattle, WA and grew up in New York City and Syracuse, NY. She spent most of her childhood and teen years reading books. Julie loved to explore worlds opened up ...

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New Acquisition: Print In The Snow

In our unwavering support for the new and original voices, Ananke Press is proud to announce a new partnership with an author who has already made a name for herself in the world of fantastic creatures.

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Remembering Toni Morrison

The author, teacher, Nobel laureate, and a great American writer has died at the age of 88. The question of what is real is at the heart of magical realism. This implies that our notions of reality are too limited—that reality includes magic, miracles and monsters. Few novels embody this concept move vividly that the celebrated Beloved by the Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. When dealing with trauma in storytelling, authors often turn to magical realism. The very origins of ...

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