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...

DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife, comes an enchanting new trilogy. DIVIDED BY BLOOD.IMPRISONED BY FATE.BOUND BY DESIRE. WELCOME TO THE INTOXICATING WORLD OF THE FAE....

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY DaughterMidwifePrincess Born Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London and stepped up to serve the people of Britain...

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate coming-of-age novel. It's a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when...

A big-hearted, utterly charming carousel of a novel about three generations of the same family, riven by feuds and falling-outs, united by fates and fortunes. 'A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.'...

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...

A Different Way of Looking at Race'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya....

The second volume in a vibrant and compellingly told trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices - perfect for fans of N. K. Jemisin's THE FIFTH SEASON,...

First she taught us how to glory in our solitude with the bestselling What a Time to be Alone. Now the Slumflower is back, with the ultimate guide to getting...

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...

In this powerful finale to the award-winning WORMWOOD trilogy, life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting... Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred...

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...

Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana,...

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . .A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on...

'[An] evocative tale of identity, friendship and unexpected love' — Mail on Sunday 'Marks Okoh as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.' — AnOther magazine After a bad break...

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 trailblazing new novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds; The Crossing is a heartbreaking and life-affirming story of hope, grief, and the very real tragedies of the refugee crisis....

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...

In this new edition, leading historian David Olusoga sets the book in its historical context helping us to understand this complex, spiritual, politically astute and deeply passionate man. Although Equiano...

Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative fictionJohn W. Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel 'A magnificent tour de force' —...

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,...

Victoria Adukwei Bulley's debut collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one's 'inner life' and the...

Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Hayward GalleryThis is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.In the...

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

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...

A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up...

Set in Uganda in 1972, an extraordinarily moving debut that tells the story of one family’s escape, when Amin forces them to leave: a story of loss and separation, but...

Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link...

Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the...

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...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc...

A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**A dazzling tale of cultural identity and displacement, this is the story of a man's escape from his native Zanzibar to...

A gay Muslim boy travels the world for a second chance at love after a possibly magical heiress grants him three wishes in this YA debut that's Simon vs. the...

Ten Steps to Becoming Your Own ChampionRamla Ali is a triple threat — humanitarian, model and boxer. Her life inside and outside the ring represents her ruthless refusal to quit...

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...

Learn how to live an empowered life with education activist and empowerment YouTuber, Vee Kativhu.From experiencing grief and leaving her home country of Zimbabwe for the UK, to attending disruptive...

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...

A major literary event — the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of...

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,...