Beautiful and uplifting: Reviewing “Sulwe” Lupita Nyong’o debut book
“Mum, this is a really beautiful book”; my 13-year-old son is usually more interested in action, thriller novels,…
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The Madam C.J. Walker book set to inspire the next generation of kids
Madam C.J. Walker Builds a Business is a beautiful new hardback that’s perfect for little hands and is…
Why you need Palette: The Beauty Bible for Women of Colour in your life
Palette is a book for the women who have, for so long, been left out of the beauty…
Queen of the big reveal, Dorothy Koomson, returns with her latest thriller
Award-winning, global bestselling author Dorothy Koomson is one seriously underrated novelist. Her books have been translated into more…
Mrs Obama’s Becoming is the gift that keeps on giving with new Journal
If you loved Becoming, last autumn’s internationally bestselling memoir by former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, get ready…
“She remembers screaming” – A first-look at Chika Unigwe’s new book
In her second book Better Never Than Late, published through the newly established Cassava Shorts series, internationally acclaimed author Chika…
Celebrating the life and works of James Baldwin: Living in Fire book review
Celebrated author, political activist and icon of the current Black Lives Matter movement, James Baldwin is an enigma.…
What we loved about Wayétu Moore’s She Would Be King: Book review
She Would Be king is the sensational debut novel from Wayétu Moore, her depiction of a fictional supernatural retelling…
Calling all unpublished BAME writers: win the Mo Siewcharran Prize
Do you love writing? Are you looking for an opportunity to showcase your talent as an author? If…
I am a Black man and I was sexually abused: ‘Running away from me’
In the wake of the string of sexual abuse allegations and paedophilia in the media recently, author and…
The male version of Slay In Your Lane? Lit review: Derek Owusu’s SAFE
“I wanted to reclaim an area that we [Black men] could talk about ourselves and make us three-dimensional…
“I want to encourage young readers to love crime.. reading about it, that is”
Shana Jackson is the author of the UK’s first Black children’s detective series, High Rise Mystery, released in April 2019. Melan…
How this book will give you the blueprint to live your life with purpose
Living your life with purpose is one of those self-affirming phrases that we come across all too often…
Book Review: All the things we loved about Ola Awonubi’s Naija Love Stories
One writer’s unfulfilled yearning for a reading experience that highlighted tales of the rich and vibrant complexities of…
Revisiting an old classic: Reviewing Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Do you sometimes sit back and think about a wonderful book that you loved and which had a…