![]() ![]() ![]() In the meantime, why not check out Charlie’s first two novels, starring Baxter Zevcenko: APOCALYPSE NOW NOW and KILL BAXTER. Keep your eyes on our social media feeds (and here) for news about forthcoming editions of the novel! Human is also the author of the Baxter Zevchenko novels, APOCALYPSE NOW NOW and KILL BAXTER, published in the UK by JABberwocky, and by Titan Books in North America.Ĭharlie Human’s ANCESTRAL is out now in South Africa!Ĭharlie Human has a new novel! ANCESTRAL is out now in South America, published by Penguin, here’s the synopsis… Then I put that all aside and wildly wrote about cults fighting gangs fighting dogs fighting monsters embedded in an African mythological alien context. CHARLIE HUMAN APOCALYPSE NOW NOW VIMEO HOW TOIn preparation for this novel, I read elegant prose, pondered deeply on how to use sparse and minimalist text to exquisitely convey human emotion, and looked for a way to give this work a deep thematic weight that would speak to our deepest selves. Here’s what Charlie had to say about writing novel, in a message on Facebook… And then there are the memories and visions of her ancestors, and her own very special hallucination whom she nicknames ‘Glitch’. Dark, twisted things stalk the estate: nightmare creatures, elite military snipers working as mercenaries and a sword-wielding man on a white horse who has made her and Drew part of his agenda. With nothing but a talent for violence, a drone piloted by a skinny Afrikaans street kid as her eye-in-the-sky, and a huge dog with ptsd who tried to kill her and then, somehow, became her sidekick, she’ll wield stick and shield, machete and shotgun, and wade through a sea of bodies to find her son.īut the gangs are only part of the problem. Ex-army and ex-cop, Clementine has tracked Drew’s phone to Welcome Shade – a sprawling retirement estate that has fallen into disrepair to become a gang-infested war-zone. The hard way.Īnd right now she is in a hard place, searching for Drew, her young son – kidnapped and drawn into the heart of a vicious gang conflict. When she was a little girl, her grandfather put a stick and a shield in her hands and taught her the ancient stick-fighting art of her Zulu ancestors. Here’s the synopsis…Ĭlementine Khoza is a hard person hard to know, hard to love, hard to fight. … whacks you with muscular, even lovely prose, thoughtful juxtaposition of beauty and bone-crunching violence, and has you cackling away knowingly at the now gentle, now brutal (satirical) gaze he employs.ĪNCESTRAL might well be the work of a madman, but oh, the method!’ĪNCESTRAL is out now, published in South Africa by Penguin. ‘Right from the opening pages until an exhilarating, powerful conclusion, this is mightily efficient, thoroughly researched, cleverly conceived and well-executed genre fare… energetic, well-mounted action set pieces, cracking, witty dialogue, convincing, layered characterisation and ultimately very solid internal logic and narrative craft… We wanted to take this opportunity to flag a great review the novel has received, from Arts24, who called it ‘his best work to date’… A little while ago, we shared the cover and details for Charlie Human‘s latest ‘firecracker’ of a novel, ANCESTRAL. ![]()
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