Africa

In this brilliantly clever fictionalised memoir, award-winning author Jamal Mahjoub interrogates how the first generation of Northern Sudanese citizens undertook the momentous task of creating a newly independent nation. Exiled...

Rumi and his family are Odu, stricken with poverty and disparaged by the other tribes. When ruthless agents of the Palmaine - the colonising nation that dominates the continent of...

From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African...

What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire’s ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where...

The Slumflower’s Guide to Why You Are Already Enough In What A Time To Be Alone, The Slumflower will be your life guru, confidante and best friend. She’ll show you...

A Black girl fostered by a white family in the 1960s and her search for belonging and identity 'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat...

Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson makes a triumphant return to science fiction with this unforgettable vision of humanity's future in the chilling emptiness of space. The colony ship...

A game-changing thriller about two teenagers a generation apart, connected by one bullet with the power to devastate both of their lives. Get ready to reconsider everything you thought you...

Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of...

Molly Southbourne returns with a vengeance. Who was Molly Southbourne? What did she leave behind? A burnt-out basement. A name stained in blood. Bodies that remember murder, one of them...

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 tale of survival from one of the most beloved Nigerian writers, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first timeWhen Adah's dream of moving to England becomes a reality,...

Every time she bleeds a murderous clone is born. Experience the horror of Tade Thompson's The Murders of Molly Southbourne. The rule is simple: don’t bleed. For as long as...

A Practical Guide to Overcoming Fear and Unlocking Your Most Empowered SelfAn empowering, practical guide to overcoming imposter syndrome, getting sassy with negative thoughts and succeeding in all areas of...

You think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.From the moment when, as...

Soul Sisters by Lesley Lokko is a rich, intergenerational tale of love, race, power and secrets which centres on the lifelong friendship between two women: Scottish Jen McFadden and South...

African myth and magic beat in the dark heart of this fable about witchcraft, superstition, the bonds we choose and those we cannot.Born into a family of West African witches,...

A powerful literary novella from award-winning author Tade Thompson, about obsession, the creation of art and the many ways in which the urge to make can also turn into an...

Unravelling Africa's history one country at a timeWhy is Africa still perceived as a single country? How did African soldiers contribute to World War II? Who else led the charge...

Over the past two decades contemporary African art has taken its rightful place on the world stage. Today, African artists work outside the confines of limiting categories and outdated perceptions;...

The murderous clone-ballad of Molly Southbourne will come to its ultimate end. Long after the loss of the original, the last mollys feel their end approaching. Whenever Molly Southbourne bled,...

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

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

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....

An Untold History A Guardian Best Book of 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of...

On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE OWNED VOICES NOVEL AWARD 2022*Speak now or forever rest in peace . . .THE PERFECT FIANCÉ.When Victoria’s best friend Gwen announces she is marrying the rich and...

It's hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won't leave you alone...Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries not to be sassy, to answer...

A feminist literary classic by one of Africa's greatest writersFirst published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal...

This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, and her estranged auntie who will stop at nothing to find the truth is...

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...

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over. Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the...