2023 releases

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...

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house...

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn...

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...

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...

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open WaterThe one thing that can solve...

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...

And the brass head of ObalufonYoruba gods liberating a Nigerian artefact from London's British Museum, this is a heist novel filled to the brim with magic.Shigidi is a disgruntled nightmare...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022, this is an exhilarating, funny, whip-smart novel about power and corruption set in the animal kingdomA long time ago, in a bountiful land not...

A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Old DriftI don't want to tell you what happened; I want to tell you...

THE BUNKER IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE.In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal. Wolfe...

Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull.In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT? THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with...

A shocking and unsettling tale of murder that is at times funny, at times erotic, always outspoken and iconoclastic. A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice.How do you...

A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines a fantastical Cairo where wishes really do come true. Deena Mohamed brings to life a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs...

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring.In 2012, the joyful hopes of the democratic Egyptian Revolution...

Trapped in an arranged marriage to a man she does not love, Nehal dreams of attending the Weaving Academy. There, she can take control of her powers, bending any water...

A bewitching and immersive Nigerian magic realist novel from an extraordinary literary voice, for fans of Chigozie Obioma, Abi Daré and Deepa AnapparaSoon you will become the thing all other...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption. Eniola is tall...

A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free himAn incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust is...

Translated by Daniel HahnAn exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland, the...

My name is Ikemefuna Nwosu, and I am your wife.One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises...

Once haunted . . . Gemma Daniels has never been quite the “down to earth” woman her adoptive parents raised her to be. She even has a unique gift: she...

A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and HistoryAn astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history.Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his...

Inspired by environmental activism, this new collection blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.If we continue to live as we do now,...

Comedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years.Twist has turned...

A memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting...

Lily is a sixteen-year-old living in Manchester. It is nearly five years since her father's death, and she is soon to return to her birthplace in Nigeria to reunite with...

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our WorldTechnology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write...

A New Era of Speculative Fiction From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and...

One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will...

A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years living in exile in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn't recognize the country or anyone in it....

From the prize winning and bestselling author of Lullaby and Adele: a fascinating and witty collection of essays on the lives of women grappling with sexual politics in a deeply...

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous...

At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad flees a massacre that takes her entire family.At fifteen, she buries her first body.At twenty, the clock is ticking on Sylvia's third...

Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew...

Introduced by Petina Gappah, a lost classic by a radical Black South African author: as exiled African activists in post-war London plot to revolutionise their native countries, idealism and tragedy...

A poignant and compelling collection of short stories about those whose lives have been marked by the risk of displacement, from the winner of the AKO Caine Prize.An enterprising young...

Seesaw is an energetic comedy of cultural dislocation — and in its humour, intelligence and piety-pricking, it is a refreshing and hugely enjoyable act of literary rebellion.A 'recovering writer' —...

Crackling with energy and intelligence, this is the unforgettable story of Andrew Aziza, a one-of-a-kind teenager who goes on a journey of self-discovery in the shadow of colonialism and communal...

An inspiring and moving collection of speeches and essays from the Nobel Laureate in Literature 2021'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great...

The story of seventeen year-old Nani who discovers womanhood through hardship before finding her freedom and independenceUdodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we...

A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the African continentAfricana travels the continent showcasing its vibrant and varied cuisines that are rich in flavour, diverse in culture and steeped in...

Winner of the Prix Ethiophile, the Prix des racines et des mots, and the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonieAN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART BY...

From one of fashion's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriersEdward Enninful has lived an extraordinary life.Here, for the first time, he shares the inspiring story of his journey,...

The second novel in Marlon James's revolutionary DARK STAR TRILOGYIn this mighty follow-up to his number one bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Booker-winner Marlon James once again draws on a...

A powerful novel concerned with how good people can end up doing terrible things during times of war and conflict.In Now I Am Here, we begin at the end. The...

Following one girl’s journey of magic, injustice, power, and revenge, Deborah Falaye’s debut novel, inspired by Yoruba-Nigerian mythology, is a magnetic combination of Children of Blood and Bone and An...