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...

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...

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...

A breathtaking and ambitious debut novel that chronicles the journey of multiple generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to...

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...

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.A powerful work from four activist scholars on...

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...

The global million-copy bestseller that transformed the world's understanding of racism and helped mobilise a global movement.In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world's...

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...

From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in.Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a lot...

Can Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her?To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story — a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at...

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...

A deeply personal, thoroughly researched and unflinching examination of feminism through the lens of race calling for a new understanding of our relationships with ourselves and one another — from...

Anyone else ever thrown a drink at someone's head, only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind them? Then have that stranger fall madly in love with you because...

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...

And Other Stories of Dirty ComputerIn The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monáe returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to...

A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, when she was just 22 years old.When Liz...

Terry J. Benton-Walker's contemporary fantasy debut, Blood Debts, is "an extravaganza from start to finish" (Chloe Gong) with powerful magical families, intergenerational curses, and deadly drama in New Orleans.In New...

A comprehensive and celebratory journey through the history of popular music, from the former New York Times music critic.From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, MAAME is the most moving debut - and a heroine you'll never forget. Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi, but...

IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY... YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS.Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in...

London, 1936Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club...

Discover this astonishing work of fiction from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott.THIS IS A TRUE STORY. An author goes on a book tour for his new bestseller...

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences...

World Fantasy Award winner C. L. Polk casts magic over mid-century Chicago in Even Though I Knew the End, an extraordinary fantasy noir.A magical detective dives into the affairs of...

Interstellar Vehicle Archimedes has been hurtling through space for more than five generations, an oasis of heat and light in the middle of absolutely nowhere. But now the ageing starship...

A Jekyll and Hyde RemixIn this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the...

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story —...

‘One of the most original and talented young writers we have.’ — Sathnam SangheraAn extraordinarily candid personal account of the ups and downs wrought by money, We Need To Talk...

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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFAMILY CAN HOLD YOU TOGETHER. AND TEAR YOU APART.Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle...

The Origins of Our DiscontentsFrom one of America's most celebrated writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about power, history and what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives'The hierarchy of...

Racism, Medicine, and Why We Need to Decolonise HealthcareA vital, eye-opening exploration of race and healthIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent...

Natural histories of place, identity and homeReflecting on family, identity and nature, belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESA haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida — even L — all are women obsessed...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESFrom the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types — the uninfected and the...

THERE WILL BE BLOOD.Black Swan meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story.Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite...

Britain and the Aftermath of EmpireBritain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated...

When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with high stakes and exciting twists, while others were of princesses...

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...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' LANGSTON HUGHESA collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the...

An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this “bloodily spectacular” (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent...

The newest novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’s compelling Women Who Dare series features a fearless grifter who goes undercover to reclaim the stolen Declaration of Independence.Lying and...

‘The reigning sex and relationship guru of Twitter’ — VOGUEAre you ready to have the best sex of your life?Oloni – Twitter’s famous sex and relationships educator – is on...

A striking debut novel about racism on elite college campuses. Fans of Dear White People will embrace this activist-centred contemporary novel about a college freshman grappling with the challenges of...

Gripping and poignant, this new collection of poetry from bestselling author Renaada Williams offers a raw view of the world from her unique perspective.Renaada Williams beckons readers into her deepest...