2023 releases

Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles and genres to create a monumental body of work....

A landmark contribution to British art history, bringing together overlooked and marginalised perspectives from 'the critical decade'What is Black art and why don't we know more about it? Museums, galleries...

Sci-fi fans will love this genre-bending debut full of cutthroat school politics and the speculative intrigue of alien contact.There’s nothing hijabi alien hunter Abyan wants more than to graduate from...

Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance?It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime for Samantha: the launch of her travel blog, her best friend’s wedding...

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...

Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret.1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large...

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...

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...

Basking in Singapore's non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and crocodile Birkins on every other arm, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the dream — until their carefully constructed lives are...

Riotously funny and full of heart, Yinka is the heroine we've all been waiting for... Yinka wants to find love. Her mum wants to find it for her. She also...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Raven Smith’s Trivial Pursuits, comes a pin sharp, hilarious and incisive exploration of what it means to be a man in the modern...

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...

An accessible, hopeful and galvanising book offering readers the tools to participate in the fight for climate justice For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have...

ONLINE RUMOURS. REAL LIFE TROUBLE. Ola Olajide, a high-profile journalist, is marrying the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, successful – she and her fiancé Michael...

A moving tale of recovery and reconnection and an immersive journey through British wetlands Glowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . . Moss is known as the living...

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

'Heartbreaking, hopeful . . . nothing short of a joy' — Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open WaterRupert's eclectic charity shop, The Chest of Small Wonders, sits on an ever-changing...

10 Commandments for Living Life FearlesslyYOU ARE THE HERO THAT YOUR STORY NEEDS.I'm Fats/Fatima. I'm a comedian. I make jokes and videos. Sometimes I go on news programmes and tell...

A furious, blistering, deeply tender novel about family, violence and the hope of redemption, set against the vivid backdrop of 80s ManchesterWythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled...

Enter a world very close to our own...One in which technology can allow you to explore an alternate love-life with a stranger.A world where you can experience the emotions of...

"What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It’s like waking up for the first time ever. It’s like waking up with a third eye." When Moremi...

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 groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book...

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 —...

Dreams are promises your imagination makes to itself. In the disunited states, no person of color — especially not a girl whose body reimagines flight — is safe.A quest for...

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what Black and brown people often...

From the author of The Jigsaw Man comes the next book in Nadine Matheson’s DI Henley seriesIn this room, no one can hear you scream…The Serial Crimes Unit are called...

‘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...

A stunning debut about finding the strength to speak up against hate and fear, for fans of The Hate U Give and I Am Thunder.People like me are devils before...

Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend’s message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh of Caribbean and Hispanic culture,...

A gripping, tense thriller guaranteed to keep you up all night…In 1980s London, Black political leaders who can straddle the racial divide are a rarity.So when a rising Black politician,...

Behind the scenes of television production journalist-turned-investigator, Sam Dean, discovers greed, ugliness and murder.When a TV producer offers journalist Sam Dean the job of tracking down a suspect in the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS‘Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking … A book I will return to again and again’ — Bernardine EvaristoA gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in...

A gripping new thriller from the master of crime…In the 1980s, London is a melting pot of cultures, but race and class create sharp divisions.Black British journalist Sam Dean looks...

Kaori and Kairi are the first twins to survive infancy on the ancient island of Mu, where gender is as fluid as the crashing waves. One was born of fire,...

Thought-provoking, witty and completely unafraid to call out some of the most pressing issues of our times, I Heard What You Said is a timely analysis of how we can...

Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi"Set to be one of the best books of 2023" — GQ Magazine"Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" — MUSA OKWONGA "A time-travelling wonder of a...

Lily is a sixteen-year-old living in Manchester. It is nearly five years since her father's death, and she is soon to return to her birthplace in Nigeria to reunite with...

A deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel about discovering love where it has always been.Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in South London. But, at just...

Rebecca isn't looking for love. She's perfectly happy with her high-flying city job, gorgeous flat overlooking Hampstead Heath and fortnightly fling with the hot CEO. She's certainly not interested in...

'A beautiful ode to migration, love and all that we do for family.' —Florence Ọlajide 'It took two decades for me to go in search of the parts of myself...

Reflections on Life Beyond the BinaryAn electric memoir about what it means to live outside the gender boundaries imposed on us by society, from the award-winning trans writer and performer.'When...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2023  In a scorching story of music, passion and self-discovery, love will set Yamaye free... It's time to dance, to love, to be free...'Mesmerising' BERNARDINE EVARISTO,...

Almond Brown has no friends in real life . . . but 3.5 million followers online. A heart-felt, whip-smart deep dive into what it would really be like to be...

Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and sacrifice, this novel...

*THE INTIMATE AND COMPELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF ORDINARY PEOPLE*After fifty years in the wilderness of London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land...

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...

An immersive historical debut which tells the story of a mixed-race woman who plays a freak on the stage in Victorian London and finds herself caught in a reckoning with...