Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? will make you laugh out loud as you cheer for a loveable heroine looking for love, and herself, between two cultures.
Penguin
Friendship, Womanhood, and Identity in Nikki May’s WAHALA
In its tale of these three women, Wahala is a riveting exploration of friendship, belonging, and identity that will have you drinking from its palm until the very last page.
5 Fun Facts with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
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.
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.
A stunning legal thriller with a medical conspiracy that will keep you on the edge of your seat
While Justice Sleeps follows Avery, a law clerk who’s just been made power of attorney over the Supreme Court judge she serves. But she has no idea why.
Bernardine Evaristo cuts her teeth on a fun verse novel
The Emperor’s Babe is an irreverent and salacious romp that merges together the traditional and the contemporaneous in a startlingly unique way.
The winner of the 2020 Jhalak Prize is a pioneering travelogue about Black Europe
With Afropean, Johny Pitts leads the way in spotlighting the flavour and entangled histories of Europe's Black communities through what may be one of the most comprehensive and transnational studies on the subject to date.
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.