Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd.

Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd. Award-winning publisher of Zimbabwean & African literature. Submissions currently closed.

Join us at the Festus Market in Bristol on 14 December 2025! We’ll be selling our books and vibing with amazing African,...
03/12/2025

Join us at the Festus Market in Bristol on 14 December 2025! We’ll be selling our books and vibing with amazing African, Caribbean and Black British artists and businesses at Trinity Centre. Come out and party with us! 🧡📚

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22/11/2025

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21/11/2025

I bought a book!

Ignatius Mabasa's The Mad is $23 .

21/11/2025

It’s wonderful to encounter Billy again—Billy from “The Heist”, a short story in Joe Ruzvidzo’s 2017 Behind Enemy Lines and Other Stories . You won’t need to have read “The Heist” (I did read it again after I finished this novel), although Welcome to Anywhere is an expansion. It tells us more about Billy: lots more about how chubby he is and how ordinary (at the beginning of the story, anyway), and more about what happened to his father and some about his mother:

“During wartime in the town, Mai Billy’s daily routine as a teenage girl was a delicate dance between the shadows of conflict and the toughness that youth demanded. Living under her parent’s roof, she navigated a world of uncertainty and sacrifice, where each day carried the weight of hope and fear. … She carried the hopes of her family and community on her shoulders, a corpulent example of optimism in the face of adversity.”

So you know where Billy gets that from.

We get a lot more background about how Comrade (the most important character, apart from Billy) came to be in Chemadhegudhegu. And we learn Comrade’s thoughts about—or perhaps excuses for—how he ended up on the wrong side of the war, committing atrocities against his own people:

“Do you think I wanted it? The voice came again, gruff and full of old bitterness. You think I wanted to be the man I became? A man with blood on his hands, whose friends were nothing but names on graves, whose enemies … well, they disappeared into the earth, too. I didn’t ask for it, boy. But once you’re in, you’re in. It gets under your skin, the need to survive. It changes everything about you, down to the way you walk and the way you think. There’s no going back to who you were before.”

There’s a link between Comrade and Billy’s father which is explained in Welcome to Anywhere, a possible (hmmm) reason for what happens to Billy during the heist. And then, finally, we learn more about that ridiculous heist, and its effect on Billy.

We finally leave Billy when he’s turned sixteen.

This is the story of Zimbabwe’s liberation...

Full review: https://hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/welcome-to-anywhere-x-joe-ruzvidzo/

Somebody told us you weren’t gonna hit your 2025 reading goal😭. Please please please don’t prove ‘em right.Check out thi...
21/11/2025

Somebody told us you weren’t gonna hit your 2025 reading goal😭. Please please please don’t prove ‘em right.

Check out this collection of short n sweet reads to get you back on track🧡.

Let’s be real. A.I chat bots aren’t gonna save us. What are some of the books you’ve read lately? .I
19/11/2025

Let’s be real. A.I chat bots aren’t gonna save us. What are some of the books you’ve read lately?

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Falling behind on your 2025 reading goals? No problem! Here are short story collections to help you meet your target. Ta...
18/11/2025

Falling behind on your 2025 reading goals? No problem! Here are short story collections to help you meet your target. Tag a lover of short stories below🧡.

For all the short story lovers✍🏾. Here’s an excerpt from “The Woman in The Red Dress,” a story from Lazarus Panashe Nyag...
13/11/2025

For all the short story lovers✍🏾. Here’s an excerpt from “The Woman in The Red Dress,” a story from Lazarus Panashe Nyagwambo’s debut collection, “A Hole in The Air.”

The book is available on our site, on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or from Bookfantastics🧡.

10/11/2025

Here are our Nonfiction November picks✨. Comment the name of your favourite nonfiction book below🧡.

05/11/2025

From WhatsApp to the world: Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure’s publishing journey

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