Biography & Memoir

The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the...

Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years...

Unlearning Race A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is...

A Whimsical Journey through Gardens and LifeIt is spring in Melbourne and I am not there.I had a taste for it before I left for India. The japonica was flowering...

The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing Black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine EvaristoBeing denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office...

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...

From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to...

How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls WorldwideNice Leng'ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her...