Rights Information

English language rights sold to UK and Kenya. Aracic language rights sold.

All other rights available

Marketing Information

Bryony has featured at several book and arts festivals, including Africa Utopia in London, Ake Festival in Nigeria, The Cairo International Book Fair as a guest of honour, as well as in Zimbabwean arts and literary events.

Reviews

Bryony Rheam offers us a rich portrait of a family and a society in the grip of inexorable change, through the eyes of the sensitive, spirited Ellie. Elegantly written, funny and poignant, this is a wonderful first novel from a writer of great promise. A true original. - Caroline Gilfillan

A beautifully executed story about Ellie’s painful journey of discovery through her family history. The writing in This September Sun, poetic at times, fires a clear warning shot across the bows of world literature to announce that Bryony Rheam has arrived to claim her rightful place. - Christopher Mlalazi

This is a wonderful book. I read it on the plane, underground trains, buses. I finished it today on the bus when I was coming from Birmingham to Coventry and I said to myself, here is another Doris Lessing. - Albert Nyathi

Bryony Rheam’s novel, This September Sun, makes a timely intervention when Zimbabweans, emigrating in droves, are increasingly asking themselves questions of personhood, family and nationhood occasioned by the country’s troubled politics and economics. What, at first, can be read as a romance/mystery is actually about belonging - finding a home. - Thabisani Ndlovu, Englsih Academy Review

This September Sun impressed me as a new refreshing breeze that offers an incisive insight into the Rhodesian and, later, Zimbabwean psyche, … [it] is a rich addition to the canon of Zimbabwean and world literature. It is an intriguing and riveting story of the protagonist Ellie McIntyre and her grandmother Evelyn Saunders. – Francis Mungana, The Standard

In This September Sun… Bryony Rheam takes a bold but necessary step toward exorcising the ghost of Rhodesia from the house of Zimbabwean letters. – James Graham, The Warwick Review

It is really really good, the prose borders on poetic. It's a gentle yet stunningly visual story. She's a breath of fresh air. Most of our authors, myself included, are storytellers but Bryony seems to be more of a stylist, an artist - Tendai Huchu

Author Biography

Bryony Rheam is a Zimbabwean who lives in the second city of Bulawayo with her partner and two daughters.

She has had short stories published in many anthologies and her first novel This September Sun won critical acclaim and topped the UK Amazon chart. It was chosen as the Best First Book at the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards and selected as a set text for 'A' level Literature in English in Zimbabwe.

Bryony was one of the five Africans chosen for a Morland scholarship in 2018. An Agatha Christie enthusiast, she is a winner of the international Write Your Own Christie competition.

Copyright Information

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