{"product_id":"incredulous-moshoeshoe-and-the-lightning-bird-book-j-w-langley-9781957010038","title":"Incredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird","description":"\u003cb\u003eNelson Mandela is about to die. \u003ci\u003eAgain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack militants and white nationalists prepare for war as a politician's daughter is killed in mysterious circumstances. Incredulous Moshoeshoe- Goth DJ and part-time isangoma-is hired to find out what really happened. Forced to partner with a tragically uncool white Pentecostal preacher, Incredulous must use his knowledge of local lore, his occult powers and his connections in the alternative scene to prevent a South African civil war. Incredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird is like Frank Peretti making out with Samuel L Jackson at a Black Panther rally. It's Dracula for DJs, Supernatural for the subcontinent. Afrocentric urban fantasy with a Spotify playlist for a chapter list and monsters as fresh as a highveld thunderstorm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise-songs for \u003ci\u003eIncredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Langley's blend of pop culture, humour, politics and horror is a blast and reading it is to be air dropped directly into a wild\u003cbr\u003eworld, fizzing with energy and ideas. While the rest of us keep mining the same old monsters time and again, he opens up a rich cave of folklore too long ignored. Recommended.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Peter Laws, author of \u003ci\u003ePurged and The Frighteners\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A unique and thoroughly engaging tale, sardonically animated and richly crafted as only JW Langley can. It's Africa, her lore, and her people, through an imaginative lens of irreverent reverence.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Ashton Nyte, author of \u003ci\u003eWaiting for a Voice\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'The motto of the Montag Press Collective is 'Books Worth Burning, ' and Jonty Langley's modern African folk-tale Incredulous Moshoeshoe and the Lightning Bird fits the bill perfectly. In its brilliant m lange of traditional African folk characters such as the Tokoloshe and the eponymous Lightning Bird himself with a cross-section of diverse twenty-first-century subculture figures, from Goths to racist punk cops, from Marxist-antifascists to Afrikaner politicians, Incredulous Moshoeshoe (what a sublime name ) and the Lightning Bird has literally everything that the firemen from Station 451 would hate. Which makes it the perfect book for you - who follow Montag and Clarisse into the forest - to pick up. And memorise.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Charles S. Kraszewski, author of \u003ci\u003eAccomplices, You Ask?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'This is the book Stephen King would have written if he was possessed by the mischievous spirit of Douglas Adams, and was also an African, a poet and more than a little mentally disturbed.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Helgard deBarros, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Skin\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'This is a terrific book. JW Langley plays with language like a dolphin plays with waterspouts - not many writers could come up with a simile like, Fat and slow as a successful lion. Incredulous Moshoeshoe riffs on music, theology, politics, and much else besides. I don't know whether to describe it as divine humanism or humane divinity. Either way, it's brilliant.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Mark Woods, author of \u003ci\u003eDoes the Bible Really Say That?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'To borrow a phrase, this guy can \u003ci\u003epreach like a motherfucker\u003c\/i\u003e. Italics mine, because it's a line I wish I'd written. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe soul-flaying juxtaposition of sun-scoured sand and silver black glitter perfectly evokes the searing unknown and dim-\u003cbr\u003eremembered familiarity permeating JW Langley's aggressively alien South Africa. Like a child possessed by dark and alien\u003cbr\u003ethings, the novel wears a skin that can only hint at what writhes inside. Incredulous Moshoeshoe navigates a world both modern and ancient, as open as a drawn gun and as closed off as beaten wife. There are old stories here, told in a new and incomparable manner that demands as much as it promises. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA relentless, kinetic tale of monsters inhabiting the darkness within and without, rich with spitfire dialogue and unforgettable\u003cbr\u003echaracters. Memorable as dancefloor blowjob.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Paul d. 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