2022 Releases

Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black FictionIn partnership with Djed Press, Fremantle Press brings 21 emerging and established own-voice writers together to imagine a new future.Unlimited Futures is an anthology of Own Voice...

A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSeven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again...Eva...

The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler. A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or...

From the bestselling author of Homegoingcomes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America.As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from...

A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never...

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.With a new introduction by Bernardine Evaristo.Sethe is now miles away from...

Aja Barber wants change.In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile...

SOME LEGACIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN.The powerful sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling and award-winning Legendborn. Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare, Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J. Maas...

A delightful, decadent romance, and a joyful celebration of Black excellence, from an award-winning author.It's the opportunity of a lifetime: Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape...

In Praise of Black PerformanceA celebration of Black culture beyond the white gaze, from the "MacArthur genius" who has been dubbed 'the most important cultural critic in America right now'...

Fair, elegant, and ambitious, Clare is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past.Clare's childhood friend, Irene, just as...

Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing.Twenty-six-year-old...

A Black spirit memoirA raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.In letters addressed to their friends, to members...

One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.When...

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.'WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIEPecola Breedlove longs...

Throughout her adolescence, Ashley Ford doesn't know how to deal with the worries that keep her up at night. If only she could turn to her father for his advice...

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....

The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine EvaristoBernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win — the first by a Black woman — was a revolutionary moment...

A genre-bending work of gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled history of racism in America and the marginalization of society's undesirables.Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, who...

How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + PlanetClimate change is the great equaliser. Or is it?In The Intersectional Environmentalist, activist and environmental scientist Leah Thomas shows how...

*SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH*A BLACK FATHER. A WHITE FATHER. TWO MURDERED SONS. A QUEST FOR VENGEANCE.Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years ago, with not so much as a...

A timely and impassioned exploration of how our society has commodified feminism and continues to systemically shut outwomen of colour. Join the important conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion with...

These are the books you should read. This is the canon.Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay have curated a decolonized reading list that celebrates the wide and diverse experiences...

How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the WorldAn essential work outlining the origin and ongoing reality of global racism, from Britain's leading authority on Black Studies.The New Age of Empire...

Sisters, beware the 'Wasteman of Whitewell' . . . As host of radio show Brown Sugar, Kiki Banjo's mission is to protect her listeners from heartbreak. Which puts Whitewell College's...

VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos.Lagos is a city for all . . . you share this...

Essays at the Crossroads of RaceTwo-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art.History is a construction. What happens...

The empire is ruled by blood: red-blooded Embers, blue-blooded Dusters and clear-blooded Ghostings. All will be shed in the coming battle for power. The Aktibar – a set of trials...

Breaking Stereotypes of Modern AfricaDefinitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIESThree friends. Three 'perfect' lives. Here comes TroubleRonke wants Happily Ever After and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be...

'Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true' — Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousThe...

Mother. To three small children, their heritage dual like hers. Daughter. To a mother who immigrated to make a better life but has been rejected by her chosen country. Wife....

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history.Danielle Evans is widely...

The debut collection from award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King.With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a...

A memoir of empowerment, community and hopeA powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. She squeezes my hand and smiles....

The Case for AbolitionThis short book outlines the case for border abolition as the only viable response to the nightmarish realities of our present. It develops a thoroughgoing critique of...

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is...

***2020 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction******2020 Story Prize Finalist******Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction***An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going...

From the critically acclaimed author of Pet and The Death of Vivek Oji, Bitter, a companion novel to Pet, takes a timely and riveting look at the power of youth,...

The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racismArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study...

#1 New York Times Bestselling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas and Prism Award Nominee Dante Luiz bring you a haunted tale of love, ghosts, and coffee beans.Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like...

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARTo Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already...

How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a NationIn her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible, moving story of three women...

What the heart desires, the house destroys...Andromeda is a debtera — an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor...

A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic tale of love and liberation, set in seventeenth-century colonial BrazilFrom plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a...

From the author of Let's Talk About Love, this pacey YA novel follows three teens locked together in a mansion, competing for a big cash prize in a competition run...

Lessons from a Professional TroublemakerThe instant New York Times bestseller: a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear — now with a brand new bonus chapter! From the...

From the author of Women, Race, and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts In these newly...

Can Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her?To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story — a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at...

A fiercely contemporary collection which renegotiates the contract between poet and reader in the light of this moment in human history, from the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek...