OWN IT! is excited to announce that it will publish JJ Bola’s brilliant debut novel, No Place to Call Home in June 2017.
With great characters and seamless prose, set between London and the Congo, No Place to Call Home is a tale of belonging, identity and immigration, of hope and hopelessness, of loss –not by death, but by distance – and, by no means the least, of love.
JJ Bola is a well-respected London poet who has built a strong reputation on an international stage (he currently holds the Oakland Poetry Slam title). He is also an educator as well as the creator of the increasingly popular adage ‘Hype your writers like you do your rappers’.
His agent Maria Cardona said, ‘At the Pontas Agency we couldn’t be more delighted. JJ Bola is a very special writer with a unique voice. OWN IT!’s passion and vision for this debut is exactly what we were looking for and we expect great things. There’s already been much registered interest from different corners of the world.’
Crystal Mahey-Morgan, Publisher at OWN IT! says, ‘JJ Bola is a beautiful storyteller and this is a unique and accomplished novel made all the more exciting by the fact that it’s a debut. It is both light of touch but deep in feeling and meaning. Full of localised nuances in different times and places and masterfully woven together to simultaneously capture the essence of human heartache and human triumph. I’m confident that JJ has an exciting career as a literary fiction author ahead of him and I couldn’t be happier that OWN IT! will be a part of his journey from the very beginning’.
For more info on JJ Bola and his work, please visit: www.jjbola.com
