This book will be released in January 2025.
Pre-orders are charged at time of order and the book will be posted to you as soon as it becomes available.
‘Atmospheric, wonderfully unexpected, disquieting, touching and darkly humorous.’ – Alison Moore
‘We discern, in a microcosm, what has happened and is happening in macrocosm in much of the developing world.’ – Penelope Shuttle
‘Triumphs, in its lean prose and true dialogue... disarming humour & evocation of a family divided by sexism & racism. Stitches together threads of memory to create a moving tapestry of lost life, building bridges of understanding across time and place, enhancing literature’s ever-changing, ever-supple genre.’ – Rory MacLean
For Sarah’s family, memories of early Sixties Aba in south-eastern Nigeria are scorched onto their hearts. In twenty closely linked stories, Bushmeat explores an expatriate family’s two-year stay in 1960’s Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, and whether the spirit can ever survive transaction.
Mandy Sutter went to school in Nigeria and Bromley but now lives in Yorkshire. She has co- written two non-fiction books about Somali women. Her first novel, Stretching It, was published in 2013; her third poetry pamphlet, Old Blue Car, in 2015. Her latest book Ted the Shed was published in April 2024 by Ings Press.