Akashic Books: 356 books

"Many readers will enjoy the peek inside the organization's hierarchy. Also enjoyable is the spirited romance between Doyle and Vicky Stanopolis, his partner in more ways than one. And the surprise ending is a wowser." --Mystery Scene Magazine "Heffernan's style harks back to...

The Canadian Noir Series titles, Montreal & Toronto have done very well for us and we're delighted to finally add another major Canadian city to the series. Features brand-new stories by: Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Robin Spano, Carleigh Baker, Sam Wiebe, Dietrich Kalteis,...

Short stories featuring “crimes of passion, politics, and perversity,” set in this tumultuous South American city (Publishers Weekly). It is a city of contradictions and chaos; crude, transitory violence, the lack of law and order, the ubiquitously hurled insult, the thunderous boom of...

One man sees an atomic apocalypse coming—and tries to warn the world—in this novel with “a sly, Hitchcockian touch”from an Edgar Award finalist (Publishers Weekly).   High on a mesa in the mountains of New Mexico, a small town hides a dreadful secret. On a morning very soon there will be...

“James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley” in this “highly original” speculative fable (Chicago Tribune). Nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction In a post-human world, creatures called oafs keep humanlike “mans” as beloved pets. One day, a poor boy oaf brings home...

This “jaw-droppingly beautiful book” explores the work and creative process of artists diagnosed with ASD, with a foreword by Temple Grandin (Library Journal).   In this volume, behavior analyst and educator Jill Mullin has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists with autism...

Glave is a multiple-Lambda Award winner. Glave is an extremely brave author, one of the only Jamaicans outspoken about gay rights in Jamaica, where there have been many violent (and sometimes lethal) attacks on gays and lesbians. Extensive social media campaign. Bound galleys available 6 months prior to publication.

This title will be listed in the CBSD frontlist catalog as Already Available, with the actual publication date coming on May 3, 2016, and will be sold on a POD/NON-RETURNABLE BASIS Akashic will promote the book to the trades, to media and bookstores in the author's region, and to media concerned...

On the heels of the stunning success of the Summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, this second volume digs deeper into the criminal history of New York's punchiest and most alluring borough. Brooklyn Noir 2 offers short stories by the classic authors who blazed the path for the success...

“Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi” (Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance).   These four sharply witty plays—three of which have been staged off Broadway—come from an award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist who has gained a cult following...

A tale of a slacker, an MIT professor, and a heist: “A writer of considerable talent whose techniques, tropes, and wordplay recall Thomas Pynchon” (Booklist).   Set in Los Angeles, this novel tells the story of a sibling rivalry, a get-rich-quick scheme, and two guys who conceive and badly execute...

“A brilliant, fearless look at the savage rites of passage that exist in the fraternity of American sports . . . gripping and unforgettable.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River   In 1964, seventeen-year-old Billy Dyer is a newcomer to Oleander, a Gulf Coast Florida town whose old guard...

The Nirvana bassist “offers specific platforms for electoral reform . . . as well as charming anecdotes about rock ‘n’ roll as a pursuit of happiness” (Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review).   A memoir of both music and politics, Of Grunge and Government tells Krist Novoselic’s...

A novel of a Jamaican woman’s adventures, from an author with “a fine ear for patois and dialogue, and a love of language that makes bawdy jokes crackle” (The New Yorker).   “An acclaimed comic novelist in his native Jamaica, Winkler makes a long overdue American debut with this laugh riot....