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judgingbooksbycovers · 2 years

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A River Called Time

By Courttia Newland.

Design by Valeri Rangelov.

Illustration by Joe Van Wetering.

#A River Called Time #Courttia Newland #Valeri Rangelov #Joe Van Wetering #books #book covers

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reverie-quotes · 2 years

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They ran from truth, filled with a desperate self-preservation that caused vile acts we never would have imagined, let alone carried out.

— Courttia Newland, Cosmogramma

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jamesmurualiterary · 2 years

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Courttia Newland on Clarke Award 2022 shortlist.

Courttia Newland’s novel A River Called Time is on the shortlist for the Clarke Award 2022 announced on Friday, July 8, 2022. The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in Britain for a book first published in the United Kingdom. The award, established with a generous grant given by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, was first awarded in 1987 to Margaret Atwood for her model…

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#Clarke Award #Clarke Award 2022 #Courttia Newland

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kabbalicgay · 2 years

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I saw you post some book recs but cldnt find them again! Would you have a little list of recommendations you could share <3

Hi! So the books I recommended in that tag game were:

This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction, edited by Mykaela Saunders

Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Book of Dirt, Bram Presser

The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

Cosmogramma, Courttia Newland

Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction, edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven

But I'll also add some more seeing as this is a general list of recommendations, and I'll recommend ones you won't usually see spread around tumblr (because they're Blak authors)

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

The Kadaitcha Sung by Sam Watson (if you can find it -- it's out of print and a rare book, but there may be some online versions you can sus out)

Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego

Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

Kindred by Kirli Saunders

How to Make a Basket by Jazz Money

False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella

The White Girl by Tony Birch

The Yield by Tara June Winch

Cartwarra or What?: Selected Poems and Short Stories by Alf Taylor

Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson

Blacklight: Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling edited by Hannah Donnelly and Sweatshop

Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now edited by Ellen van Neerven

#this is a haphazard list #more or less directly taken from looking up at my bookshelf and trying to give a decent selection of Blak authors for you to peruse through #answered #anonymous

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colemckenzies · 5 months

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14, 24 for the book ask! X

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Now see if I had answered this when you sent it, it would've been my physical book (The Island of Missing Trees, finished yesterday) and my audiobook (Weirdo, finished today), but as there are now only 4 hours left in my year and am not currently reading anything I don't have high hopes for further completions

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

A River Called Time by Courttia Newland bad :( which is a shame bc i really want to read more bajan authors. there were a couple of others which i wouldn't count bc it was just that i wasn't in the mood or the audiobook was bad or w/e (can currently only think of station eleven but there were others), but i do plan to pick those up later

#britta-perrry #book ask

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nevinslibrary · 11 months

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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

Little bit historical, a little bigger bit of speculative fiction, and a lot of mind-bending (only the best mind-bending).

Joe Tournier is a slave in a different 19th Century England that is ruled by the French. Basically, what if the French had won the Battle of Trafalgar and occupied England, and so things change, like, English is an illegal language. Scotland is the land of rebels (okay, not that much change, heh…). Joe gets a postcard in English that’s only signed M, and that starts him on a journey of land and sea and time.

The characters were my favorite part of the novel, complicated and very unique, but, the…. let’s go with questions of time… were also really fun to read. It’s always good to pretzel the mind a little with a bit of time travel, amnesia, and some romance.

You may like this book If you Liked: Time Was by Ian McDonald, The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway, or A River Called Time by Courttia Newland

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

#weirdandwonderfulwednesday #nmlRA #nevins memorial library #the kingdoms #natasha pulley

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sfcrowsnest · 2 years

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Shortlist for the 2022 Arthur Clarke C. Award science fiction book of the year (news).

The finalists for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of 2022 are: Deep Wheel Orcadia – Harry Josephine Giles (Picador). Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber). A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine (Tor UK). A River Called Time – Courttia Newland (Canongate). Wergen: The Alien Love War – Mercurio D. Rivera (NewCon Press). Skyward Inn – Aliya Whiteley…

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goodtobegeeking · 2 years

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Shortlist for the 2022 Arthur Clarke C. Award science fiction book of the year (news).

The finalists for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of 2022 are: Deep Wheel Orcadia – Harry Josephine Giles (Picador). Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber). A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine (Tor UK). A River Called Time – Courttia Newland (Canongate). Wergen: The Alien Love War – Mercurio D. Rivera (NewCon Press). Skyward Inn – Aliya Whiteley…

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adastrasf · 2 years

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Ishiguro, Newland and Giles make Arthur C Clarke shortlist

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citylightsbooks · 3 years

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5 Questions with Courttia Newland, Author of A River Called Time

Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much-lauded debut, The Scholar. His last novel, The Gospel According to Cane, was published by Akashic in 2013. In 2016 he was awarded the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has co-written two episodes of the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe. A River Called Time is his latest book.

Courttia Newland will be discussing his newest book with Naomi Jackson and Victor LaValle as part of our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on April 17th!

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Where are you writing to us from?

I’m writing from Forest Gate, East London in the borough of Newham, which is the birthplace of Grime and Jungle, home of the 2012 Olympics; and it has a pretty cool park near me too--West Ham Park. I’ve only lived here for eight years or so; before that I was in Brixton, and before that I was born and bred in west London: Wood Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, and Ladbroke Grove. There’s a rumor that Brixton and Ladbroke Grove are twinned, as far as the African-Caribbean populace are concerned. The only part of London I’ve never lived in is north. So far.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Being a writer I’m usually holed up in the house for the better part of a year anyway, and I was doing pretty good until January. Then I had enough. I’ve been working mostly, getting projects done, overdosing on music, watching as much film and TV as I can, reading on occasion. SAULT albums were a Godsend; I love prolific artists. The movies Rocks, His House, Time, and I’m No Longer Here were really inspiring. I binged on Watchmen, The Morning Show and Homecoming. I also don’t know what I’d have done without my family and kids being with me.

What are 3 books do you always recommend to people?

Only 3?! Percival Everett - Erasure, Curdella Forbes – A Tall History of Sugar, Colson Whitehead – The Intuitionist.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

Well, Percival heavily influences me, so much so that my previous novel was homage to his work. As I love prolific artists, J Dilla is a major inspiration for his ability to find his own lane, and work without the need for outside accolades. Erykah Badu, Alice Coltrane, Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar, Kool G Rap. Steve McQueen without question. Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh, Dennis Bovell, Smiley Culture. Fela Kuti, James Brown. The Grime scene, Wiley, Dizzee, D Double E, Kano, the UK Hip-Hop scene (shout out to London Posse, and Demon Boyz)! The entire diaspora sound-system culture! Boards of Canada, Autechre. The Metu Neter. God. Everything really.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

Shepherd’s Bush Green, it'd be called House of Culture and it would be fully interactive with a coffee shop/juice bar, theatre/cinema which could be turned into a space for book launches and parties. Perhaps a writing/internet space for people without access, kind of like an Internet bar or library. Strictly A to Z by author, no sections according to ethnicity. African Diaspora led, but completely inclusive. I’d never dictate the bestseller! It could be anything really but something smart and incisive about life, sex, spirituality and the capacity for human potential that could be anything: fiction, non-fiction, a play or poetry. Something mind-bending and true that exists without hype, just pure joy.

#5 questions #courttia newland #akashic #a river called time #author interview

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genevieveetguy · 3 years

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- I wanna join the force. - What? Are you gonna be a Jedi or something? - No, no, no... I wanna join the police force.

Red, White and Blue, Steve McQueen (2020)

#Steve McQueen #Courttia Newland #John Boyega #Steve Toussaint #Joy Richardson #Antonia Thomas #Assad Zaman #Neil Maskell #Calum Callaghan #Seroca Davis #Tyrone Huntley #Nadine Marshall #Joshua Hill #Shabier Kirchner #Mica Levi #Gary Davy #2020

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cinesludge · 3 years

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Movie #68 of 2020: Red, White and Blue

#red white and blue #steve mcqueen #small axe #english #drama #courttia newland #mica levi #shabier kirchner #68 #2020

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book-marked-reading · 3 years

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Book Review: A River Called Time

A River Called Time by Courttia Newland As usual, I had no clue what to expect when I started this book. Right from the beginning, it was quite clear that this is certainly a work of speculative fiction – the word that came to mind for me specifically was abstract. While this did give the book a wonderfully unique feel, almost poetic, I did find it a little hard to follow at times. Maybe I’m…

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#A River Called Time #alternate timeline #astral projection #black #book #book review #chakras #Courttia Newland #fiction #galley #inequality #literary #netgalley #racism #Review #speculative #spiritual #spirituality

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kabbalicgay · 2 years

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Dervla @dearrbhla tagged me to do a quarterly book recommendation so:

This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction, edited by Mykaela Saunders

Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Book of Dirt, Bram Presser

The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

Cosmogramma, Courttia Newland

(not pictured) Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction, edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven

I am tagging all my mutuals once again but @foragecore @flintcoded @fieldmushrooms (if you recommend Paolini I'll kill you with my bare hands, Dov) @theerealcowboy @remy @kvetchs @palominojacoby @tolstayas @carpe-noctium and fuckin everyone else

#cannot overstate how good This All C0me Back Now and Unlimited Futures are tbh #Cosmogramma is also pretty good so far! I'm almost finished with it but #tag games

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colemckenzies · 8 months

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Books I read in September ranked best* to worst:

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

The Marvellous Land of Snergs by Veronica Cossanteli

Amari And The Great Game (amari 2) by B. B. Alston (buzzword readathon)

I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom

Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well by Tim Spector

Judas by Jeff Loveness

Caught In The Act by Shane Jenek

Directed By James Burrows by James Burrows

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

Touch by Claire North

The Woman Who Didn't Grow Old by Grégoire Delacourt

I also DNFed A River Called Time by Courttia Newland. Can you tell I finished my dissertation.

#book list

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moviesteve · 3 years

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Lovers Rock https://bit.ly/3e8JrOq Lovers Rock is the second in the sequence of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series of films for the BBC, stories from the frontline of the West Indian immigrant experience in the UK. Unlike its predecessor, Mangrove, which featured Letitia Wright, and Red, White and Blue, its successor, which starred John Boyega, Lovers Rock is not … Read more

#Amarah-Jae St Aubyn #Courttia Newland #Daniel Francis-Swaby #Ellis George #Micheal Ward #Shaniqua Okwok #Small Axe #Steve mcqueen

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