Black Cat imprint: 121 books

Sometimes just surviving second period is an accomplishment! Zach Ziegler’s mom says he’s “big-boned.”  His grandfather referred to him as “strapping.”  His dad, whom he never sees much, calls him “Sporto.”  No one uses the F-word:  fat.  But Zach’s arch-nemesis, Trevor,...

A “sensual, brutal . . . ambitious, dazzling, disturbing, and memorable” retelling of Jason and the Argonauts seen through the eyes of Medea (Financial Times). International bestselling and multi-prize-winning author David Vann transports readers to the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 3,250...

A riveting psychological family drama that takes place over a week in the confined secretive hotbed space of a crumbling mansion home (based on the house Melanie grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, where the novel is also set) Will appeal to readers of The Gathering by Anne Enright, The Map of the...

Movies, Mobsters & Mayhem! Charlie Barnett loves movies.  He’s such a fanatic that he’s become best friends with the manager at the local theater, Mr. Mankiewicz.  But when the mob comes looking for a mysterious object and Mr. Mankiewicz is kidnapped, Charlie is thrust into a real-life...

A lost goldmine... a forgotten ghost town... a terrifying creature! “Alaska is a huge place.  Easy for a man to get lost and never be seen again.”  These words ring in 12-year-old Brock Ford’s ears as he embarks for the frozen north with his uncle, world-famous anthropologist Dirk Armstrong. ...

A legendary treasure... a secret palace... one big adventure! When 12-year-old Brock Ford is invited to Africa with his globe-trotting anthropologist uncle Dirk Armstrong, he jumps at the chance to ditch his boring hometown to spend the summer on safari among wild animals and friendly natives. ...

Across the sea... Over the desert sand... And into the tomb of a missing mummy! When 12-year-old Brock Ford joins his anthropologist uncle Dirk Armstrong on an expedition to Egypt, he never imagines he’ll be shipwrecked at sea and thrust into an international mystery before he sees his first...

“Breathless, marvelous . . . Latin American fiction at its pulpy, phantasmagorical finest . . . A literary masterpiece masquerading as a police procedural.” —Junot Diaz When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation...

A dying screenwriter conjures a fascinating past in a novel “as musical as a Bach prelude” from the Prix Femina-winning author of Fault Lines (Elle, France). Renowned screenwriter Milo Noirlac is dying. As he lies in his hospital bed, voices from his past and present come to him, each taking...

An “unsettling and engaging” novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize-short-listed author of The Good Doctor (The Telegraph).   Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into...

*** Long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 * "I can’t remember the last time I was so enchanted by a novel like I am by Butterflies in November. Zany, surprising, full of twists and turns, it left me breathless. I just love this book." -Ann Hood, author of The...

A New York Times Notable Book—the award-winning debut novel of race and family that “casts a new light on urban life in Brooklyn” (Time Out New York). “Like the characters of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry . . . [our] unnamed narrator is a black man concerned with...

The bestselling author of I’m Not Scared delivers “a black thriller with the momentum of an action-packed Hollywood movie” (The Times Literary Supplement). The winner of the prestigious Strega Prize, As God Commands is a dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town...

Cedar Rivers is on a strange errand. A doctor sidelined into the strange world of the first dot-com boom, he has come to Albany, New York, in between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, to meet a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty years. Then a Chuck Taylor–shod proto-Goth with chipped black...