For en tid tilbake fikk jeg kontakt med den sør-afrikanske forfatterinnen Milumbe Haimbe som for ikke lenge siden debuterte med romanen Swagman & Jumbuck.

Siden hun er i den velkjente situasjonen for en forfatter at hun ikke har fått all verdens eksponering, og siden hun skriver på engelsk, vil jeg gjerne prøve å gjøre noe for henne og boka hennes i Norge.

Så, folkens, dette er godt nytt, og det er en befrielse å kunne vende det litterære blikket vekk fra både den hjemlige litterære andedam og fra den evige strømmen av bøker fra "Langtvestistan", der så mye etterhvert går i alt for velbrukte litterære spor.

Gjør en liten ekstra innsats, og skaff dere ei bok som garantert ikke finnes i alle hyller!

Jeg lar henne like godt presentere seg og boka si sjøl:

I was born in Southern Africa in 1974, the fourth of five children. From an early age, I loved the magic of literature and art, and expressed these passions through the scripting and sketching of comic books.

However, I studied architecture at undergraduate level at the Copperbelt University and graduated in 1998.

In 1999, after a year in the building industry, I decided to hang up my T-square in search of my true loves – literature and art.

Swagman & Jumbuck is my first novel.

Moody but brilliant Jude is Chief Game Designer at Virtualosity, a leading virtual reality game company. When the finished but polished version of the game he has been designing finally premiers at a glittering gala, even he is dazzled by the sheer brilliance of it. Thanks to the software Virtualosity has been developing in their laboratory, his relatively engaging game has been transformed into an astounding masterpiece, and it's flat, programmed protagonists into artificially intelligent virtual beings.

Jude is soon obsessed with this magical software. One night, driven by this mad obsession, he breaks into the laboratory, coming upon a glass cubicle wherein lies a young girl – unconscious, countless tubes channeling fluids into, as well as out of her electrode ravaged body.

Convinced that she holds the key to Virtualosity's magical software – his tramp card to ultimate power and glory in the cut-throat world of virtual reality entertainment – Jude abducts the girl in the hope of unlocking the secrets that she holds, fleeing across the Atlantic to take refuge in a quiet European countryside.

It is a strange relationship that develops between this unlikely pair on the run. Fantastical adventures unfold in virtual space as well as in real time. Dynamics change, and balances grow fragile as the mysteries of the girl's true nature unravel. All the while, the great confrontation looms like doom.

This book is available for order in all leading bookstores in the U.K.

Readers living outside the U.K can order it directly from the publishers at
www.pegasuspublishers.com
Direct link:
www.pegasuspublishers.com/Haimbe%20M.html.

Or

Telephone: 01223 370 012.

The book is also available for order at
www.amazon.co.uk
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If there are readers who want to get in touch with me, my email is

Title:           Swagman & Jumbuck
Author:          Milumbe Haimbe
ISBN:            1 84 3860 74 0
Genre:           Fiction/Science Fiction
Publishers:      Vanguard Press
Price:           6.99 British Pounds.