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Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is a British literary translator working from German, Russian and Arabic into English.

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Happy Friday to our wonderful Neem Tree Press comm

Happy Friday to our wonderful Neem Tree Press community! 🌸

The latest instalment of Publishing Insiders, our new interview series, is up on the blog now! This week we’re featuring Taliha Quadri, freelance editor, events officer at the Society of Young Publishers, and co-founder of literary magazine The Selkie. Taliha offers her insightful take on working as a freelancer in the publishing industry, gives an excellent book recommendation, and much more! Link in bio.

For those of you in the UK, enjoy the glorious three day weekend! We’ll be back next week with more Neem Tree Press updates + content 🌸

🌸 Particularly given the recent burqa and hijab

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Particularly given the recent burqa and hijab bans across the European continent, Modesty: A Fashion Paradox represents a valuable and urgent contribution to discussions surrounding religion and curbing civil liberties. Featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Arabia, Grazia Middle East, and on Refinery29, Modesty: A Fashion Paradox examines the evolution of the modest fashion movement through religious, feminist, political, and cultural lenses. A brilliant book for anyone interested in breaking stereotypes and learning more about modest fashion, regardless of faith.

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‘A nuanced and insightful study of the modest fashion movement in the Muslim world and beyond.’
- Publishers Weekly

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Available from Bookshop.org, Bookdepository.com, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.

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#muslimfashion #feminism #hijabban #modesty #modestfashion #breakingstereotypes

🎉 Hi everyone! We are the recent recipients of

🎉 Hi everyone! We are the recent recipients of an English PEN Translates grant and we’d like to share our excitement! 🎉

As mentioned briefly in a previous post, Neem Tree Press received a literary award from English PEN to support an upcoming work in translation. We are thrilled and grateful to have received support for The Djinn’s Apple, an Algerian title. This book fits perfectly with the mission of our publishing house: to broaden and change perspectives, opening the door to cultures both near and far. Further details on The Djinn’s Apple: 
“The youth in the Middle East and Africa are often portrayed in the media as radicalised angry individuals, struggling to rise out of poverty, and uneducated. Young girls in particular are portrayed as powerless in their societies.

The Djinn’s Apple counters these narratives with a young teen female protagonist (Nardeen) who decides her own destiny. Though the story is set hundreds of years ago, Nardeen faces many of the obstacles that women face today: pigeonholing of women for specific professions only, that her external frame is more valuable than her inner qualities, that she needs not question male authority figures if she wants to survive. More than ever in today’s ever narrowing perception of ‘outsiders’, English young adults need to be reading such stories to challenge the discrimination which they so easily digest from news stories and political figures.

Furthermore, as African literature is still on the margins of the publishing sphere (whether written originally in English or translated to English), it is important more than ever for young adults to read diverse voices and vicariously live through experiences vastly different from their own.” - Archna Sharma, Founder and Director of Neem Tree Press

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Sawad Hussain will be translating this book and we’re currently looking at a spring 2023 release. Watch this space for further updates and other indie publishing tidbits. We have some very exciting books in the works that we can’t wait to share with you all!

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#EnglishPEN #literaryaward #indiepublishing #independentpress #neemtreepress #africanliterature #translatedliterature

Penniless and desperate to escape middle England,

Penniless and desperate to escape middle England, Billy is working as a grave-digger, the ultimate dead-end job. To make matters worse, he’s a virgin, and there’s no hope of him meeting a girl any time soon. The only women at work are in coffins. Meeting the older, mysterious Eva changes everything…

A scramble across Europe follows, involving hitch-hiking with truckers, walking with refugees, and an encounter with suicidal cows. But the further Billy goes, the harder it is to be sure what he’s chasing - and what he’s running from.

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Winner of the Spotlight First Novel Prize, this coming-of-age story is filled with humour and heart, and we could not be prouder to have Cows Can’t Jump on our list here at Neem Tree Press. The book is available online wherever you buy your books: Bookshop.org, Waterstones, Hive, Foyles, Book Depository, Amazon, etc.

Happy reading!

#neemtreepress #indiepublishing #independentpress #supportindiebookstoresifyoucan #karlmarxisburiedhere

🌸 To those of you who are new here: welcome! It

🌸 To those of you who are new here: welcome! It’s great to have you here! In case any of you are curious and/or need a little refresher, allow us to (re-)introduce ourselves:

Neem Tree Press is a vibrant, independent publishing house producing books that change and broaden perspectives. Dedicated to the enthusiastic discovery of both British and international literature, we are truly global in scope, with titles under contract from across the world. We are the recent recipients of a prestigious English PEN grant, a literary award for an upcoming work in translation, and our books have been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Arabia, on BBC Radio, and at the Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.

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There is lots of exciting Neem Tree Press news coming up and several new titles to be revealed over the course of the year. Get ready for plenty of sneak peeks and insight into life at a small indie publisher! 🌸

✨📚 Publishing Insiders continues today! Featu

✨📚 Publishing Insiders continues today! Featuring Katalina Watt, Audio + Digital Executive at Canongate and Audio Director at khōréō magazine, a quarterly speculative fiction magazine elevating stories by immigrant and diaspora authors. Visit the link in bio to read Katalina’s wonderfully insightful perspective on audio publishing (and much more!) 📚✨

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#publishing #author #bookpublishing #canongate #khoreo #publishinghopefuls #pubinterns

🌍🌲 Tomorrow is the first ever World Rewildin

🌍🌲 Tomorrow is the first ever World Rewilding Day! 🌲🌏

Rewilding is a form of environmental conservation all about restoring wild nature and reintroducing lost animal species to natural environments.

Translated from Spanish, The Adventures of Toletis, Amenophis and Friends is a beautiful story of rewilding and eco-activism. Toletis is a child for our times, encouraging us all to engage with the natural world. Celebrate #WorldRewildingDay with Toletis, Amenophis and Friends! Link in bio ✨

#rewilding #ecoactivism #readytorewild #greenpeace #gretathunberg #nature #connectwithnature #natureprojects #climatecrisis #inspiringnature

🌸 Are you looking for your next Women’s Histo

🌸 Are you looking for your next Women’s History Month read? ✨

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox was selected as a Harper’s Bazaar Essential Fashion Book 2020 and has been featured at the Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. This critically-acclaimed book explores the rise of modest fashion from political, cultural, religious, and feminist perspectives, while exploring the possible paradoxes that lie at the heart of the movement.

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‘A nuanced and insightful study of the modest fashion movement in the Muslim world and beyond.’
- Publishers Weekly

‘Smart and journalistic, Modesty embraces the heterogeneity of fashion to tell a new story about self-expression and freedom.’
- Foreword Reviews

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#modestfashion #modesty #feminism #fashion #neemtreepress #style #fashionblogger #muslimfashion #fashionindustry #hijabifashion #femaleempowerment

✨ A selection of Neem Tree Press books. Don’t

✨ A selection of Neem Tree Press books. Don’t they look beautiful together?! Hope you’re all having a lovely Monday. ✨

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