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Art is a Waste of Time
Art is a Waste of Time is Zarina Macha’s debut poetry collection, first published in 2018. Macha has written extensively in styles of satire, confessionalism and free verse. This body of work contains poems Macha wrote between the years 2013 and 2018, capturing a teenage girl's growth into a young woman. A small segment of poems she wrote as a child in the year 2007 is included at the back of the book. Her debut fictional novel Every Last Psycho: A Collection of Two Novellas was released in 2018. Her second fiction novel, Anne, was released in 2019.
Anne
'Are you okay Mummy? Did Daddy hurt you again?' Anne Mason’s childhood in Richmond emulates suburban bliss, with a wealthy father and a loving mother. But behind the polished windows, Anne’s father terrorizes her mother, shattering their utopian home life with beatings and beer. Home-schooled on a diet of books and museums, knowledge becomes Anne’s only saviour. One night her dad comes home with the news that her mother has left them forever. Unable to care for his daughter, Anne is sent to live with her kindly aunt and uncle. Struggling to settle into day school, Anne enrolls in Lakeland Boarding School. She meets and falls for gentle Karen, whose friends torment Anne and her troubled roommate Simone. Forced to confront her traumatic upbringing, Anne learns the horrors of the past and present. Will love, hope, and inner strength prevail? ‘Anne’ is a powerful and dramatic YA tale about life, family and coming-of-age in and outside of London.
Single Broke Female
Zarina Macha struggles to make ends meet as a writer and musician living in 21st century London. Hopping between part-time lovers and jobs, she lives off the charity of student loans and her mother. One day, she decides to take a chance and self-publish her work, supposedly to charm her way onto people’s bookshelves. Macha wants success, the good life and she’s willing to struggle for it (although not kill or take over someone else’s identity; that could get a little messy). Above all, she wants to share her second poetry collection with those who may enjoy the wits and words she is able to twinkle. (Not to toot her own horn). Stepping into this strange world of independent authors, she embarks on a journey from which there is no going back…
Around Midnight
The harder you love, the higher the stakes. Jazz is everything to Megan Hollis. When her hands clasp the saxophone, melodies flow with each breath. Music carries her from Copperwood to London, with university on the horizon. Set on attending London’s prestigious School of Jazz, all elements of her life harmonize. Then she meets Vincent Turner, the mysterious guy with a dangerous reputation. Intoxicated by his possessive charms, Megan’s love shifts from melodic bliss to a dissonant nightmare. While the future promises stardust dreams, her new relationship takes a turn for the worse. Megan becomes caught between what she wants and what everyone believes is best for her. Will Megan learn to dance to the beat of her own rhythm?
Every Last Psycho
Every Last Psycho contains two tales of two girls: Every Last Thought and Psycho Girl. One girl hears voices screaming in the shadows; the other burns with self-absorbed hunger. Every Last Thought ‘Rocking backwards and forwards; deep breaths in and out’ Sixteen-year-old Tess Davis suffers from schizophrenia, triggered six years ago by the onset of her twin brother’s death. She’s felt broken ever since. But when new guy Ed moved to her school two years ago, life gave her a reason to live joyously. Ed made her happy, becoming the friend she needed. But she didn’t plan to fall in love with him, and love isn’t always requited. Distraught by Ed’s new girlfriend and a horrific traum...
Tic Tac Toe
Pronoun badges. Wumbo-assigned categories. Marriage is banned and the state is family. Welcome to the future. The year is F25. The Social Justice Party rules Britannia, now a member of the International Diversity League. Seventeen-year-old Dennis is a white En living in Clarendon, the capital of Britannia. Like all white Ens, he must atone for ten thousand years of toxic En-centric privilege and white supremacy. In a few months he will become an En of Service, living out his days as a servant of the state. One day, Dennis receives a letter in his Safe Space from an organisation promising to liberate Ens from their oppression. Led by the charismatic Harvey, their goal is to storm Parliament, take the city, and make Ens great again. Newfound hope bonds Dennis with Kiana, a beautiful Laz at his school. But Harvey’s revolutionary rhetoric puts Dennis at odds with his relationship. Meanwhile, desperate acts of rebellion prove powerless against the state. Because if you’re not with us, you’re against us… A young adult dystopian novel, set in an age of political correctness and censorship. Prepare to be triggered.
Best 'New' African Poets 2015 Anthology
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others. It travels from Cape to Cairo, Monrovia to Nairobi, rooms in the beautiful Moroccan Sahara desert, pastoral idyllic Savannas, the rainy equatorial rainforests and then flies into the Diasporas as each poet speaks his/her own story of the Africa that she/he knows, dreams and envisions with protective pride and resolute dedication.
Let Me Burn
He's a broken firefighter. She's his sweet escape. 'Let Me Burn tugs at the heart. Ember and Lucas are two lost souls searching for a place to call home. The passion is real, the emotions are raw and the beauty runs deep.' - Isha C, reviewer ‘An intense, captivating and wonderful story.’ – Simona’s Corner of Dreams Blog * * * * * Lucas Russell lives for his job. Forced to take extended leave following an accident, he returns to his small home town to stay at the beach cottage his grandparents left him. After a broken engagement, Ember isn't ready for love right now. But she didn't count on meeting a handsome firefighter with a dimpled smile. After Lucas saves her from one awkward situation too many, she finds him impossible to resist. What starts as a fling develops into something much deeper. Until the day Ember's ex-fiancé returns to town and threatens to destroy the connection that's building between them. One thing's for sure. Somebody is going to get burned.
Heaven's Silhouette
When I was little, other children called me a monster. A painting proved them right. A lifetime of cruel taunts and heartbreak has taught Aurelia to hide, to not get too close to anyone. A painter and gallery docent, her only solace is in the art that can't stare back. When a new piece arrives, depicting an angelic figure who shares the physical features she's always thought of as monstrous, Aurelia searches for the artist, determined to get the answers her mother has long refused to provide. But she isn't the only one searching. There are others who want the artist-and the truth-silenced. Aurelia is attacked by figures from the painting, fierce warriors with wings and sharpened blades. Shak...
Lost Languages of the Peruvian North Coast
"Dieses Buch behandelt die indigenen Sprachen der peruanischen Nordküste, die vor der Ankunft der Spanier gesprochen wurden. Sie gingen mit dem Untergang der präkolumbischen Gesellschaften der Küstenregion verloren: Sechura und Tallán in Piura, Mochica in Lambayeque und La Libertad, und weiter südlich Quingnam. Der Autor rekonstruiert die Verbreitung dieser Sprachen bis in die frühe Kolonialzeit anhand der spärlichen Quellen und diskutiert die Prozesse des Sprachverlustes zugunsten des Spanischen. Soweit möglich werden Lexikon, Grammatik und phonologisches System jeder Sprache dargestellt und mögliche Rückschlüsse auf Sprachkontakte und Sprachgrenzen gezogen. Eine grosse Bedeutung kommt der Diskussion zu, inwieweit die koloniale Sprachsituation an der Nordküste in die präkolumbianische Vergangenheit projiziert werden kann."--
