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Small Island by Andrea Levy Published by Tinder Press, 2009 PB: 560 Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Whitbread. It is possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the Empire Windrush generation. Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch…
Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo Published by Virago Press 2013 PB: 238pp A coming of age story about Dele, a young student, and his sister Dapo glide through love, politics and violence; Diran Adebayo s debut is funny, street-smart fiction which puts language through hoops to create an exhilarating odyssey through the London…
Sula by Toni Morrison Published by Vintage, 1998 PB: 208pp As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other s secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel,…
Tales Of Kamanda by Kama Sywor Kamanda Published by Books of Africa, 2016 PB: 205pp Tales of Kamanda Vol. 1 by Kama Sywor Kamanda; 41 enchanting tales by Africa s greatest story teller.Kama Sywor Kamanda has produced a dozen anthologies of poetry, several hundred stories, four novels and three plays. The imagery in his stories…
Tell Me How Long The Train s Been Gone Published by Penguin Classics (2018) Pb: 384pp At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For…
The Attic Child by Lola Jaye Published by Macmillan, 2022 HB: 480pp Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret. 1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large house by the sea. Taken from his homeland and treated as an…
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Published by Vintage 2016 pb:172pp Toni Morrison’s debut novel immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family – Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola – in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows….
The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross Published by Peepal Tree Press 2016 When Michael (Digger) Digson is recruited into DS Chilman s new plain clothes squad in the small Caribbean island of Camaho he brings his own mission to discover who amongst a renegade police squad killed his mother in a political demonstration. Sent to…
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill Published by Black Swan, 2010 PB: 512pp Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom – and of finding her way home again. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband…
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Publlished by OneWorld Publications, 2014 PB:132pp By the Man Booker-winning author Marlon James, this is the powerful story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women – a clandestine council of…
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah Published by Simon and Schuster, 2009 PB:353pp Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist and bestselling author Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.
The Emperor s Babe by Bernardine Evaristo Publisher: Penguin 2002 PB: 272 pp A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity — sassy, razor-sharp and transformative. Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian…
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed Published by: Viking 2022 PB: 384pp Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff s Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a…
The Future Has a Past by J. California Cooper Published by First Anchor Books 2001 pb:288pp From the beloved author of Family and A Piece of Mine comes a dazzling new collection of stories featuring ordinary women who discover that love sometimes comes when you least expect it. Vinnie is an overworked and self-sacrificing single mother who gets a…
The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu Published by Tor Main Market Edition, 2021 PB: 336pp When ghosts talk, she will listen . . . Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker – and she now speaks to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to the living. A girl’s gotta earn a living, and…
The Long Song by Andrea Levy Published by Tinder Press, 2011 PB:432 Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell. A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jamaica,…
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