Thomas Stein Publishing
There Are Ants in my Sugar was longlisted for the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2009.
The Impac, which sees librarians around the world nominate their favourite titles for the award, has longlisted 156 books this year, spanning 46 countries and 18 languages. Bestselling English-language writers Sebastian Barry and Joseph O’Neill are jostling with the largest number of books in translation ever nominated for the prize, including works by Icelandic crime novelist Arnaldur Indridason, Chinese author Ma Jian and Serbian surrealist Zoran Zivkovic. Evelio Rosero’s Colombian civil war-set The Armies, which won the Independent foreign fiction prize, also makes the running.
Read more about the IMPAC Dublin longlist.
In More Ants! new and engaging characters appear with quirky unexpectedness. They irresistibly draw us deeper into the South Africa of the 60s, to the rural backwaters where forbidden romance, intrigue, robberies and shootings are daily staples. A 25-year old illegal love affair across the colour bar resurfaces and presents the eccentric tiny community with a cultural problem of bewildering magnitude. How they resolve it is this side-splitting story, each individual contributing their own exuberantly different cultural recipe for life and love.
This is a rollicking trip back to the South Africa of the 60s. Give this book to someone you love and watch them laugh.
More Ants was selected as part of Exclusive Books's Homebru promotion in May 2009, continuing the success of There Are Ants in My Sugar
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There Are Ants in My Sugar is the warm hearted, engaging and humorous account of Annica Foxcroft's exile to a pondokkie in the country, when unexpected financial hardship overtook her family during the 1960s.
Annica is a sassy young woman to whom the city chic of Johannesburg and the dire warnings of her decorator friend Harry still cling like French perfume, as she is dumped unceremoniously on a plot in the dark, landing on a pile of blackjacks. She has to adapt and make a home for her baby daughter and aging husband amidst boreholes, long drops and Aga stoves.
There are Ants in My Sugar will have you chuckling all the way to its joyous conclusion; even in 1960s South Africa there was some justice for all...
There are Ants in my Sugar was selected as part of Exclusive Books's Homebru promotion in May 2008, and the first print run sold out in days!
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Annica Foxcroft was born in colonial Durban, lived for a few years in the Transvaal countryside, and since then has lived and worked in the melting pot of Johannesburg. Along the way she has seen South Africa in various guises.
Her career has been in marketing, particularly of language and communication skills development. She is co-founder and owner of Languageworks.
Her keen perception of people, quirky humour and love of language in all its colourful eccentricity shines through in her writing. A generous and loyal spirit, she is able to take us with her on the bumpy ride through memory and mishap to transforming laughter.
Visit Annica's website at www.annicafoxcroft.co.za
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