<p><div>Harare, 2000: Gabrielle is a newly-qualified lawyer fighting for justice for a young girl. Ben is an urbane and charismatic junior diplomat attached to Harare with the American embassy. With high-level pressure on Gabrielle to drop the case, and the president's youth wing terrorizing his political opponents as he tightens his grip on power, they begin a tentative love affair. But when they fall victim to a shocking attack, their lives splinter across continents and their stories diverge, forcing Gabrielle on a painful journey towards self-realization. Irene Sabatini, winner of the 2010 Orange Award for New Writers, navigates Zimbabwe's unfolding political crises, showing how the dehumanizing effects of state-sponsored violence can shape and remake a life. <i>An Act of Defiance</i> is a sweeping political drama about a young woman's fight for love and agency in turbulent times.</div></p>

An Act of Defiance

Sabatini, Irene

Romance

The Indigo Press

Silence is My Mother Tongue

SULAIMAN ADDONIA

<p><div>The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. Preventing it will require an unprecedented political and social response. And yet, there is still hope. Academic, physicist, environmental expert and award-winning science communicator Paul Behrens presents a radical analysis of a civilization on the brink of catastrophe. Setting out the pressing existential threats we face, he writes, in alternating chapters, of what the future could look like at its most pessimistic and hopeful. In lucid prose, Behrens argues that structural problems need structural solutions, and examines critical areas in which political will is required, including women's education, food and energy security, biodiversity and economics.</div></p>

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science

Science & Math

Behrens, Paul

Earth Sciences

<p><div>Privacy consultant and AI expert Ivana Bartoletti explores the urgent existential threat that artificial intelligence poses to international social justice When most people think about AI, they think about the future--from driverless cars and smart cities to HAL 9000 and the Terminator--and are unaware that AI is already creating a dystopian present. The third book in the Mood Indigo series argues that the rapid growth of the AI industry is threatening to undo decades of progress in human rights and global equality. AI has unparalleled transformative potential to reshape society, our economies and our working lives, but without legal scrutiny, international oversight and public debate, we are sleepwalking into a future written by algorithms which encode racist, sexist and classist biases into our daily lives. This book exposes the reality of the AI revolution, from the low-paid workers who toil to train algorithms to recognize cancerous polyps, to the rise of techno-racism and techno-chauvinism and the symbiotic relationship between AI and right wing populism.</div></p>

An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI (Mood Indigo)

Computers & Technology

Bartoletti, Ivana

Computer Science

<p>In her first full-length book, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of the acclaimed Mood Indigo essay <i>I Choose Elena</i>, writes about the secrets a woman's body keeps, from puberty to menstruation to sexual pleasure; to pregnancy or its absence; and to darker secrets of abuse, invasion or violation. Through the voices of women around the world and her own deeply moving testimony, <i>My Body Keeps Your Secrets</i> tells the story of the young woman's body in 2021. Moving from girlhood and adolescence to young womanhood, Osborne-Crowley establishes her credentials as a key feminist thinker of a new generation with this widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies in the age of social media.</p>

My Body Keeps Your Secrets

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Osborne-Crowley LLB, Lucia

Women's Health

<p>Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right is a tale of departure, loss and adaptation; of mothers whose experience at the hands of controlling men leave them with burdens they find too much to bear. After an unwanted pregnancy leaves her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, seventeen-year-old Ogadinma is sent to her aunt's in Lagos. When a whirlwind romance with an older man descends into indignity, she is forced to channel her strength and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. A feminist classic in the making, Ukamaka Olisakwe's sophomore novel introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience.</p>

Ogadinma: Or, Everything Will Be All Right

Literature & Fiction

Olisakwe MFA, Ukamaka

Literary

<p><div>The latest addition to The Indigo Press's Mood Indigo series of polemical essays sees Sam Mills, author of the acclaimed novel <i>The Quiddity of Will Self</i>, investigate the phenomena of what she terms 'chauvo-feminism,'&nbsp;where men pose as 'woke' feminists&nbsp;in order to advance their careers, while privately exhibiting chauvinistic attitudes. Through testimony from women&nbsp;as well as her own experiences with a chauvo-feminist, Mills explores questions of gaslighting and emotional abuse, the psychological underpinnings of the chauvo-feminist, and how we might move beyond 'trial by Twitter' to address the root causes of misogyny.</div></p>

Chauvo-Feminism: On Sex, Power and #MeToo (Mood Indigo)

Politics & Social Sciences

Mills BA, Sam

Sociology

<p><div><b>An innovative hybrid of auto-fiction, crime fiction and critical race memoir, this multi-layered&nbsp;yet compulsively readable novel is inspired by&nbsp;the author´s real and extended experience of serious racial harassment, as well as exploring her search for justice and for love</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours. Tesya finds herself victimized again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental of desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto and plotting his next steps. Inspired by the author's personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualize the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, <i>Lessons in Love and Other Crimes</i> is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes.</div></p>

Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

Chakrabarty PhD, Elizabeth

<p>Two schoolgirls in Bolton take acid just before their English class. A film journalist shares tea and a KitKat with Marcel Proust, more or less, during a long train journey. An afterparty turns into a crime scene. Colleagues, maybe in love, have lunch and don’t quite talk about their relationship. A woman flees to New Orleans and finds unexpected treasures there.<br />
In her electric debut, Anna Wood skips through the decades of a woman’s life, meeting friends, lovers, shapeshifters, and doppelgangers along the way. Delights and regrets pile up, time becomes non-linear, characters stumble and shimmy through moments of rupture, horror, and joy.<br />
Written with warmth, wit, and swagger, these stories glide from acutely observed comic dialogue to giddy surrealism and quiet heartbreak, and always there is music – pop songs as tiny portals into another world. Yes Yes More More is packed with friendship, memory, pleasure, and love.</p>

Yes Yes More More

Wood MA, Anna

Genre Fiction

<p><div><b>How do you approach the pressing issues of feminism, sexism, and the patriarchy with the men in your life? Get a copy of <i>Kyle Theory</i>, the obscenely funny debut book from Instagram artist Lily O'Farrell.</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Based on the author's wildly popular Instagram account @vulgadrawings, <i>Kyle Theory</i> is a hilarious and accessible guide to feminism, dating, internet culture, and navigating everyday life. Enjoy cartoons covering topics like the four types of female characters in every Romantic Comedy, the annoying "allow me to play devil's advocate" argument, and some adorable DIY instructions for a cute dress made out of the red flags your ex gave you.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Warning: don't feed the troll.</div></p>

Kyle Theory: A Vulga Drawings Book

Comics & Graphic Novels

O'Farrell, Lily

Comic Strips

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