The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Elwood Curtis is a young black man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time: he is … More The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Elwood Curtis is a young black man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time: he is … More The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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I am constantly amazed at the quality of people’s first novels. I know it isn’t the first thing they have … More Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
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This is an unusual book and I can see that it has quite a wide range of reviews, Waterstones give … More The Khan by Saima Mir
The wrongful conviction and execution of Mahmood Mattan became the first miscarriage of justice ever rectified by a British court, … More The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
This was a fantastic book – I love literary spy novels and this was one. What it really is though, … More American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
This book was seven hundred and ninety seven pages of wonderfulness and I can completely understand why it took a … More The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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Wow! What a book; a coming of age story in a family with secrets. It’s a story of racism, abuse … More Betty by Tiffany McDaniel