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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...

'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' — NEW YORKER The Patternmaster is all...

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...

From AFL stardom to attempting to take his own life, Majak Daw's is a football story like no other. Born in Sudan, Majak Daw fled to Egypt with his family...

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 West African Fantasy EpicInspired by West African folklore and stories handed over centuries, this unique graphic novel follows the adventures of Mansou, last prince of a dying kingdom, and...

*Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction* *Longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize 2020*'Vital, brutal and tender, The Palace of the Angels is written...

Two identical girls, one a princess, the other a rebel. Who will rule the empire? Amani must make a devastating choice between revolution and family in this sequel to the...

A powerful feminist folktale rooted in Ugandan historySmart, headstrong Kirabo is raised by her grandparents in rural Uganda. But as she enters her teens, she starts to feel overshadowed by...

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,...

A seminal work by one of today’s most vital figurative artists explores the complexity of race, wealth, and class through storytelling and multimedia drawings. This extraordinary illustrated story – Toyin...

The oldest son of a world-renowned scientist, Wale Williams — aka tech-savvy superhero EXO — tries to save Lagoon City from a deadly group of emerging extremists. But before this...

An instant New York Times bestseller! The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves...

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri.In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question....

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...

Following the exploits of queen and military commander Malika, who struggles to keep the peace in her ever-expanding empire, Azzaz, this historical fantasy is set in fifteenth-century West Africa and...

Malika, queen and commander of the fifteenth-century West-African empire Azzaz, has been flung into the year 2025. After years of moving in the shadows, Malika is forced out of hiding...

A heartbreaking, exquisitely written masterpiece. One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection...

Tales of a Different History Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad of stories, stories, questions and experiences scattered in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novel-a story of love...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeIn this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us...

'[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...

In Igboland, the lives of two Nigerian women change forever... In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures the endless...

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid. Seizing upon...

In 21 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental worksOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living...

A debut novel by one of the most exciting African literary voices to emerge in recent years Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother-...

Winner of the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment...

Translated by Howard Curtis Boxing offers one boy hope in cruel between-the-wars Algeria — but will it help him win the woman he loves? As a child living in a...

Haunted Library Horror Classics When Reuel Briggs, a medical student at Harvard, witnesses the performance of the beautiful singer Dianthe Lusk at a concert, he's infatuated by her talent and...

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...

Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa begins a thrilling new epic fantasy series of violent conquest, buried histories and forbidden magic. In the city of Bassa, Danso is a clever scholar...

Translated by Gila Walker One might say that the womb of death — the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonisation — gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her...

The second novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of This Mournable Body and Nervous Conditions continues Tambu's story.As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year...

A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists. In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot...

Translated by Melanie Mauthner Introducing Scholastique Mukasonga: a major international author and her brilliant and award-winning first novel. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be...

Translated by Alexia Trigo Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal...

Edited by Larry Siems The international bestseller that set the world on fire, told in full: Mohamedou Ould Slahi's unflinching account of his fourteen years of detention without charge in...

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 modern classic — Lola Shoneyin's debut novel is a portrait of a clamorous household in the midst of upheaval. Coming soon to Netflix! When Baba Segi awoke with a...

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...

This CBCA short-listed book also won the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and is a stunning and heartrending mystery set in a Swaziland boarding school about two...

A fierce and lyrical collection of poetry celebrating the moments of triumph and beauty in our lives, as well as the moments of despair – recasting them as opportunities for...

The hotly anticipated epic and phenomenal West-African inspired finale to the New York Times bestselling YA fantasy Raybearer. For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar's throne. To...

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...

From the award-winning author of the CBCA shortlisted When the Ground Is Hard, comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and an uplifting story of how friendship saves and...

Cairo, 1912. Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of...

My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis A rousing manifesto and memoir from a leading young Ugandan activist that will change the way we way...

Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. ‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’ Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years...

Ten People Who Shaped the World In a richly designed work with maps, portraits, and graphics throughout, the award-winning author of the Jumbies series shows readers this underrepresented side of...