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A Rage in Harlem
$22.99
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into...
When I Dare to Be Powerful
$16.99
Women so empowered are dangerous Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of...
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
$22.99
A Biomythography A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for...
The Cancer Journals
$22.99
A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New StatesmanI would never have chosen this path, but I am...
The Black Unicorn
$22.99
The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and...
Another Country
$22.99
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the...
If Beale Street Could Talk
$22.99
We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant....
He kupu na te maia: He kohinga ruri na Maya Angelou
$37.95
A selection from the collected poems of Maya Angelou, translated into te reo Maori by thirty-four wahine from across Aotearoa. Rangona ai ko te reo o te tira wahine. He...
Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
$24.99
Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City,...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
$22.99
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. When, at sixteen, Janie is caught...
The Street
$22.99
From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in . . . New York City, 1940s. In...
The Crazy Kill
$22.99
A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem aboundsBig Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short...
The Big Gold Dream
$22.99
Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money - or it would if anyone could find it...Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a...
If He Hollers, Let Him Go
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The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life...
Blind Man with a Pistol
$22.99
The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling pointBawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a...
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name ; No Name In The Street; The Devil Finds Work
$39.99
A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenaryNovelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded...
Talk Stories
$24.99
Originally featured in the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, these are Jamaica Kincaid’s first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York. ‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago Tribune Talk...
See Now Then
$22.99
A story of a marriage, Jamaica Kincaid’s most recent novel is one of her most emotionally and thematically daring works. ‘If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is...
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
$26.99
More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United...
Exhalation
$22.99
‘Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.’ – The Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories...
The Fire Next Time
$26.00
My Dungeon Shook; Down at the Cross 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to...
Mama Day
$24.99
With a new introduction by Robert Jones, Jr, author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets 'Gloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking story-teller. Mama Day is her masterpiece' Tayari Jones...
Tar Baby
$22.99
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there's Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who...
Paradise
$22.99
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this...
The Known World
$24.99
The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths...
The Joy Luck Club
$22.99
Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters.Four Chinese women, four America daughters - can they learn to understand each other?In 1949 a group of Chinese women, recent immigrants...
No Name in the Street
$22.99
A short, powerful memoir from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a...
Bone Black
$24.99
Memories of Girlhood One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time. 'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth...
Stories of Your Life and Others
$22.99
The first story collection by science fiction legend Ted Chiang and the basis for the Oscar-winning film Arrival. With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection,...
Quicksand
$22.99
'The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race' Telegraph Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane...
Telephone
$22.99
Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area – the geological history of a cave forty-four metres...
So Much Blue
$22.99
‘Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression’ NEW YORK TIMES Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his...
Damned If I Do
$22.99
An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
$24.99
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal...
Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
$24.99
A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK...
Mom and Me and Mom
$24.99
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter...
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
$24.99
A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. The international classic and bestseller, Maya...
The Heart Of A Woman
$24.99
From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce...
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
$24.99
A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' – BARACK...
A Different Drummer
$22.99
'More than lives up to the hype' — Observer 'Set to become a publishing sensation' — Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row 'An astounding achievement' — Sunday Times 'The lost giant...
Patternmaster (Patternist #4)
$22.99
'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...
Jazz
$22.99
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products,...
Collected Poems
$52.99
A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career.Gathering highlights from all...
Stride Toward Freedom
$22.99
The Montgomery Story The inspiring account of the march towards American Civil Rights, as told by Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the...
Push
$19.99
'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.' This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never...
Imago (Lilith's Brood #3)
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From literary pioneer Octavia E. Butler, the acclaimed Lilith's Brood trilogy concludes with the story of Jodah, child of the Earth and stars, who risks the future of humanity just...
Adulthood Rites (Lilith's Brood #2)
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From the groundbreaking, award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: one young man with extraordinary gifts must reconcile his own heritage before he can change the fate of humanity. Lilith's...
Sugar
$19.99
The unforgettable Richard and Judy Book Club pick An unforgettable story of friendship and forgiveness in a small town in the American South, SUGAR is a classic of commercial fiction...
Meridian
$22.99
Meridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in the American south, comes of age against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s civil rights movement. Life...
