Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes sheds light on her remarkable journey from not knowing Black people write books to writing some of the best ones around.
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Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men centres humanity in the midst of tragedy and injustice
The Fortune Men is a historical fiction set in 1950s Cardiff that explores the real and distressing story of Mahmood Mattan, the last man to be hanged in Wales.
Bernardine Evaristo cuts her teeth on a fun verse novel
The Emperor’s Babe is an irreverent and salacious romp that merges the traditional and the contemporaneous in a startlingly unique way.
“I learned to read between the lines”: A conversation with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is a veteran of historical fiction whose pioneering work has put Afro-Latinx history on the literary map.