This diverse owned award-winning independent publisher and bookseller has come a long way since launching its first title in 2014. It now has over 70 titles to its name and an impressive catalogue of exciting writers including Bernice L McFadden and Irenosen Okojie. In 2020 Jacaranda was named Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards while launching its ground-breaking #TwentyIn20 initiative, which aimed to publish 20 titles in 2020 by 20 Black British writers. 2020 was also the year when Jacaranda co-launched the #InclusiveIndies campaign in response to the COVID 19 crisis and its impact on small, diverse indie publishers. More than $121,000 was raised which was shared with 12 other independent presses. In 2021 Jacaranda formed a historic partnership with the publishing group Hachette UK, in a bid to support the growing market for books written by diverse authors.
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Juliette Foster is a journalist and co-founder of Read2Write. She wrote and illustrated her first novel when she was nine and although she doesn’t remember much about the story, the improbability of the plot was enough to make anyone who read it burst out laughing. Juliette’s ambition is to read every single book in her massive collection before her one hundredth birthday.
