Winner, 2018 American Book Fest Best Book Awards for Historical Fiction.
One of twenty recommended Commonwealth books by the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
2018 Eric Hoffer Awards: Grand Prize Short List; Honorable Mention for General Fiction; Montaigne Medal Finalist; First Horizon Award Finalist
2018 International Book Awards Finalist
2017 Sarton Women's Book Awards Finalist
Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons is translated into French by Les Éditions La Pleine Lune in Quebec, and is available in English in India and the Indian subcontinent by Rupa Publications, and in Tamil by Kalachuvadu Publications.
Also available as an Audible Audiobook:
By: Jocelyn Cullity
Narrated by: Rishma Malik
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
AMAH AND THE SILK-WINGED PIGEONS
“...the single most important, well-known, and violent episode of the nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian relationship: the Great Mutiny of 1857…”
“...the single most important, well-known, and violent episode of the nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian relationship: the Great Mutiny of 1857…”
- Edward Said, literary critic and political activist
REVIEWS
- Midwest Book Review
"A superbly crafted historical novel with impressive attention to a detailed accuracy of events, Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons is an extraordinarily entertaining read from cover to cover, revealing novelist Jocelyn Cullity as having a genuine flair for narrative driven storytelling. A truly memorable read, Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons is an especially recommended addition to community library collections. It should be noted for personal reading lists that Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.89)."
