Bestsellers

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019 Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently...

Inspired by real historical events, The Mercies is a breathtaking story of love, fear and obsession, and the strength and courage of women. On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around...

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

A faded list.Nine favourite stories.For two strangers, friendship is only a page away . . .When Mukesh Patel pops to the local library, forgoing his routine of grocery shopping and...

The Return of Race Science Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year Where...

What if love is the best magic of all? Once, Sera Swan was one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very...

A ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Empireland 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world, QUEENIE is about identity,...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud YA novel about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to...

I’m not here to sugar-coat grief. I’m here to be transformed by it. This powerfully vulnerable book invites us to grieve. Having lost her mother at the age of nine,...

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...

All you have are your words. AS RECOMMENDED BY MALALA YOUSAFZAI AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TOP TEN SUNDAY POST BESTSELLER A STYLIST BEST BOOK OF 2020 'A...

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

Surviving the insanity of a racist world An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in...

THE DEBUT NOVEL THAT'LL STEAL YOUR HEARTSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the...

An urgently timely, deeply personal and powerfully moving series of essays on the experience of lockdown from one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time There will...

The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And...

When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give anything to return...

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...

How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020 How do we understand the people...

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's...

In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who...

When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them. When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her...

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth. In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north-west London lives...

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 Water The one thing that can...

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...

Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But feminism isn't a commodity up for...

How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern Britain In Britain, imperialism is everywhere — though we often choose not to...

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds...

A powerful reflection on race, racism and writing from the Orwell Prize-winning journalist, Gary Younge. ‘Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but...

The most hotly-anticipated romcom of 2025, from the author of Reese's Book Club Pick and TikTok Book Awards winner Honey & Spice... Not every relationship makes it out of university. But...

A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash...

Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very...

A cosy and spicy spellbinding fantasy romance, about a kitchen witch cursed to hurt anyone who falls for her. Perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert and The Very Secret Society of Irregular...

How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases affect the way we receive...

The Time Traveller's Wife meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow in a wildly original debut novel by a major new talent. One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times....

‘Big-hearted, earthy and funny… A rattlingly good story' — Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of...

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. There's a journey we must go on, and...

On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. Set in New England mainly and London partly,...

Unravelling unconscious biasUncovers the science behind our 'unintentional' biases using real world stories underpinned by scientific theories and research.For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr...

The first in a duology, an epic, fierce and magnetically addictive Caribbean-inspired YA fantasy from an incredible new talent. Trust no witch… Iraya Adair has spent her life in a...

A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published. A single lighted match banishes Triton from...

Fiercely told, this is a powerful coming-of-age story told in verse, from one of the UK's leading poets, Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, & Kacen...

Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic. Two young people are forced to...

For fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaid’s Tale, in Dark Lullaby a mother desperately tries to keep her family together in a society where parenting standards are strictly monitored....

Exposing how the law silences women: Uncensored. Unredacted. Updated. HOW MANY MORE WOMEN have to be raped or abused before we act?need to accuse him before we believe her?will be...

Black Britain: Writing Back A gripping, propulsive courtroom drama following a barrister as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a...

The epic romance of Lei and Wren comes to a breathtaking conclusion in the explosive finale to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire series. 'Don't...

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job...

A New History of Revolution and Empire WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE...