Mark Illis Mark Illis

Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen

Crackling with energy and heart, Kin is a love letter to Marie's Caribbean identity, a journey through the region's myriad food cultures and a tribute to this most resourceful, resilient and joyous of cuisines. Here, Caribbean food emerges as one of the first truly global cuisines, borne out of the violent convergence of African, American, European and South Asian cultures in the long, troubling history of empire and emancipation, its legacy preserved − and, ultimately, transformed − by the kinship of those who share food.

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Mark Illis Mark Illis

In Memory of Us

In Memory of Us is a profound evocation of memory, and the strategies employed for illusion and survival in the wake of racism. It offers an often-overlooked insight into life as a Black Briton after the Windrush generation.

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Mark Illis Mark Illis

A Necessary Kindness

Urgent, illuminating and deeply human, A Necessary Kindness reveals the misunderstood world of abortion clinics, and deals with a complex issue - around which there is still too much taboo and too little understanding - with gentle compassion and bold conviction.

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Mark Illis Mark Illis

Running Away for Beginners

A funny, heartfelt journey of a book, with vivid friendship dynamicsand an unforgettable protagonist and narrator facing devastating news.

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Cecily Blench Cecily Blench

Flowers From the Void

In this scintillating debut collection Gianni Washington explores the limit of intimacy and empathy with the vivid intensity of your worst nightmare.

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Cecily Blench Cecily Blench

Secrets of Malta

Malta, 1943. The war in the air above Malta is over, but the battle for Europe is about to begin.
Margarita, a young singer in a Valletta nightclub, has seen her former lover Henry Dunn only once since breaking off their affair. His wife Vera, an enigmatic archaeologist, arrives at the club to tell her that Henry has disappeared, presumed dead. While investigating, Margarita stumbles upon the hunt for a notorious and dangerous spy: Nero.

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Richard Smyth Richard Smyth

Notes on Her Colour

Florida kitsch swirls together with magical realism in this glittering debut novel about a young Black and Indigenous woman who learns to change the colour of her skin.

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Richard Smyth Richard Smyth

The Gosling Girl

The Gosling Girl is a moving, powerful account of systemic, institutional and internalised racism, and of how the marginalised fight back.

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Richard Smyth Richard Smyth

The Fat Lady Sings

A groundbreaking novel exploring the intersection between race, class and mental health in the UK.

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Richard Smyth Richard Smyth

Will This House Last Forever?

When Xanthi Barker's father died when she was in her mid twenties, she could make no sense of her grief for a man who had been absent for most of her life.

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Richard Smyth Richard Smyth

Bitter

It’s time to embrace the beauty of bitter flavours.

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Richard Smyth Richard Smyth

The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell

Richard Smyth had always been drawn to the natural world, but when he became a father he found a new joy and a new urgency in showing his kids the everyday wild things around them. As he and his children explore rock pools in Whitley Bay, or the woods and moors near his Yorkshire home, he imagines the world they might inhabit as they grow up.

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Kimberly McIntosh Kimberly McIntosh

black girl, no magic

In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes and tedium?

Until recently, not Black women.

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