It's live
Trevannock is out today.
I don’t have a long announcement to make. You’ve already read why I wrote it. Today, the book itself is the answer.
For anyone just joining: Trevannock is set in 1782. Africa is the dominant empire. Their ships come for the villages of Cornwall. A Cornish fisherman named Elias Hollowell is seized at his own harbour, stripped of his name, and entered on the manifest of a slave ship called the Iyalode. On the lower deck, the enslaved keep something the empire cannot take — the names of their dead, passed hand to hand, so that no one crosses unremembered.
It is Book One of five.
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I am Nigerian-British. This history shaped the world I grew up in, shaped how I was perceived in it, and shaped the questions I carry. I wrote this book because I wanted to close the gap between knowing about the transatlantic slave trade and feeling it. Not from a distance. From inside the hold.
If you’re here at the beginning, thank you. A debut novel with a small following is not a precarious thing. It is exactly where every book worth reading starts.
Buy it, read it, tell me what you think.
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— Anthony