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Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial...

‘Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful’ The Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue, V.S. Naipaul’s The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief – in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and...

The Mystic Masseur, V. S. Naipaul’s first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and struggling masseur to author, revered...

 ‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ – The Times n...

An Islamic Journey ‘This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . ....

Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself,...

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie...

Willy Chandra whom we first met in 'Half a Life' is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s,...

Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my...

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018, V.S. Naipaul's masterpiece is republished as part of the Picador Collection. A young...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of ‘Bhaji on the Beach’. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a...

From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility With equal humour, sorrow...

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. There's a journey we must go on, and...

Black Britain: Writing Back A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their freedom after the American revolution In the years just after...

The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new...

Black Britain: Writing BackA sensational, original art heist thriller about the high stakes theft of a priceless African artefact and its dark consequencesUniversity lecturer Gus knows that stealing the priceless...

Black Britain: Writing Back Theonly novelfrom the revolutionary intellectual C.L.R. James, andthe first novel by a Black West Indian to be published in the UK It is the 1920s in...

A tale of survival from one of the most beloved Nigerian writers, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When Adah's dream of moving to England becomes a...

'We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you...

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...

The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said,...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswasis V. S. Naipaul's best-loved novel; one of BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Heart-rending and...

Introduced by Petina Gappah, a lost classic by a radical Black South African author: as exiled African activists in post-war London plot to revolutionise their native countries, idealism and tragedy...

From cultural icon Jade LB comes the notorious Keisha the Sket, an unforgettable coming-of-age story and a raw and original depiction of British youth culture.Where were you when Keisha the...

Black Britain: Writing Back A gripping, propulsive courtroom drama following a barrister as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a...

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernityIn this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American,...

A major literary event — the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of...

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job...

A magical, cross-century tale of self-discovery from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World — now a Penguin Essential Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three...

Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Sam Selvon is now widely considered to...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, has been hired to cure a...

From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets. A year...

**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra** From the award-winning author of Sojourn, a mesmerising novel about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with...

A stunning collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth. Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about...

A New Collection of Black British Poetry In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream...

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...

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...

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...

A memoir with a message — about growing up in care and finding hope, determination and creativity — from British poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay. How does a government...

A perfect miniature of a novel about arrivals and departures, new worlds and old homes.A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali...

The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose 'languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all' (Salman Rushie).Abhi, a Bengali boy,...

Black Britain: Writing Back A groundbreaking novel exploringthe intersection between race, class and mental health in the UK It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric...

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980sSequins for a Ragged Hem narrates Johnson's return tour to...

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...

A Collection of Black British PoetryThis seminal collection of Black British poets ignited a movement when it was first published in 1998. It celebrated the rising stars of the time,...