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.
Penguin
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.
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.
A pioneering travelogue about Black Europe
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.