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The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, newly updated for 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike...

A memoir of three homecomings **Longlisted for the Bread & Roses Award 2025**'Brave, powerful, and deeply necessary ... A vital contribution to the Black British literary canon' Afua Hirsch'Fresh and...

The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of...

My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis A rousing manifesto and memoir from a leading young Ugandan activist that will change the way we way...

A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and ConservationA moving, heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperer — now the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant...

A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting memoir of a young woman starting a new life in Australia under the shadow of violence A moving, confronting and ultimately uplifting story about...

Ten Steps to Becoming Your Own ChampionRamla Ali is a triple threat — humanitarian, model and boxer. Her life inside and outside the ring represents her ruthless refusal to quit...

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...

On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural...

Comedian Oliver Twist was four years old when he and his family fled the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda for Malawi, their exile for the next fourteen years. Twist has...

A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the...

One Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and GratitudeA Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local...

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...