Black History Month

Patrick Vernon's landmark '100 Great Black Britons' campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the black British community from the mainstrea...

Centring on Georgia and Bessi, identical twin sisters who inhabit the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue in Neasden, this novel watches the Hunter family as they make their way through the 1980s. Some family members having more success than others.

A professor and former political activist returns home after ten years in prison - a broken man. He cloaks himself in darkness, pushing away friends and family, until a knock at the door shakes his new existence. His visitor is Desire, an enigmatic student who has grown up idolising Prof. She ret...

Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until now. Because anonymous texter, Aces, is bringing two students' dark secrets to light. Talented musician Devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can't escape the spotlight when...

'Acts of Faith' explores the unique pressures that black people face in the modern world and offers spiritual inspiration and support to keep body and soul healthy and whole.

Amina al-Sirafi has survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's offered a job no bandit could refuse, she ...

'Africana' is a cookbook from the heart, full of cultural and culinary diversity. With recipes passed down the generations, but adding her own modern twists, as well as exploring the multiplicity of the rich African continent, Lerato Umah-Shaylor has created sumptuous cooking to try at home.

'Afropean' is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of L...

Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the schutztruppe, at the ri...

Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The world outside calls Nahr a terror...