From the blog post that inspired her to Yinka’s abiding love for her local chicken shop, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn gives us five fun facts about one of the first Black British romantic comedies.
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An illustrated extract from Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?
A novel that will make you laugh out loud as you cheer for a loveable heroine looking for love, and herself, between two cultures.
This debut is a breathtaking love letter to diaspora
Bad Love has a somewhat misleading title. Though it is about how we hurt and are hurt in love, it is ultimately about the resilience of love across space and time.
“A Pride and Prejudice Remix” that packs a punch
Pride is a deeply representative retelling that foregrounds Black people’s right to exist in a canon that has always pretended they do not.
Open Water: An ethereal meditation on Black love and art
People like to say that love sees no colour, that love is blind. True as that may be, it is also true that love is about seeing.