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Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin Published by Penguin Classics (2001) Pb: 272pp Drawing on James Baldwin s own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of…
God Help The Child by Toni Morrison Published by Vintage Books, 2016 PB: 192pp Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her…
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher: Harper Collins 2020 HB: pp 252 In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston – the sole black student at Barnard College, New York – was living in the city, ‘desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.’ During this period, she began writing…
How Long Til Black Future Month by N.K Jemisin Published by: Orbit, 2018 PB:429pp N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In…
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones Published by: Tinder Press, 2021. PB: 336 pp In Baxter s Beach, Barbados, Lala s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it s the story of…
I Do Not Come To You By Chan Adaobi Tricia Nwabani Published by W & N, 2010 PB: 368pp Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family and marry the girl of his dreams. Being the opara of the family, he is entitled to certain…
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Published by Penguin Classics (1994) Pb: 192pp Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin s novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of…
Island Songs by Alex Wheatle Allison and Busby 2006 pb:288pp She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into ? the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world. But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendents of the fierce Maroon…
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin Published by Penguin Classics (1994) Pb: 608pp When Arthur Montana, world-renowned Emperor of Soul , is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches,…
Kindred by Octavia Butler Published by Headline, 2018 PB:320pp In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he s drowning. She saves his life – and it will happen again and again. Neither of them understands his power to…
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique Published by Hudson Street Press, 2015 PB, 402pp In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck and the death of its doomed captain are two sisters and…
Love by Toni Morrison Published by Vintage 2016 pb:224pp May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious vision from a master storyteller on the nature of love – its appetite, its sublime possession,…
Midnight and the Meaning of Love by Sister Souljah Published by Simon Schuster, 2011 PB:608pp Midnight is a young man who was born into a wealthy and politically influential Islamic African family in the Sudan. Sent to the United States with his pregnant mother as a small boy to escape an attack on his father…
Midnight by Sister Soulja Published by Pocket Star 2010 pb: 608pp Midnight is a hustler-but one with a mindset and a mission. A tall, dark, and handsome hero in his own way, Midnight would, in mainstream American society, be characterized as a threat and dismissed as a criminal. But in her beautiful, captivating style, Sister…
Never Far From Nowhere by Andrea Levy Published by Headline Publishing Group, 1996 PB:384pp A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. NEVER FAR FROM NOWHERE is the story…
Rip Off Christmas by Christmas Philip Author House Uk 2016 pb:pp248 The book is about a drifter s search to find his dreams and the misfortune he overcomes on his journey.
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