Fiction

Nervous Conditions follows Tambudzai, a young girl growing up in Zimbabwe before its independence from British coloni...

'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Rivière au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from...

This collection of short stories will surprise you, delight you and at times make you cry... Nafissa Thompson-Spires ...

A love letter written for a London love: Open Water is a beautiful debut novel by a writer who has a background in ph...

Blue is a short novel in which a Haitian girl who's waiting in a US airport reflects on her family, her mother's yout...

In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and w...

For a polygamist like Baba Segi, his collection of wives and a gaggle of children are the symbol of prosperity, succe...

The sequel to Nervous Conditions, the Book of Not is another literary masterpiece. The story still follows Tambudzai,...

A celebration of Black queer love across times, The Prophets is a lyrical debut novel by Robert Jones Jr. The story o...

Recitatif is a short story by Toni Morrison which is published as a stand-alone book for the first time with a beauti...

Song of Solomon tells the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead III, a coming-of-age story about family relations and finding...

The Bluest Eye was Toni Morrison's debut novel back in 1970. The story follows Pecola Breedlove, a dark-skin girl who...

Lot is not your typical short story collection. Set to the background of a predominantly Black and Latin neighbourhoo...

This book honestly deserves its own genre. In a great show of writing craft Evaristo weaves together stories of Black...

Classic Baldwin novel about a young man in Paris who gets involved with another man when his girlfriend is away. The ...

Incredible debut novel from Akwaeke Emezi where they explore different selves and identities through main character A...

Beloved is Toni Morrison's most famous novel. Its narrative about Sethe, a former slave living with her daughter, is ...

Friday Black is a short story collection consisting of near-future dystopian tales. Extreme despair meets just being ...

In a minimalistic prose which reminded me of Caleb Azumah Nelson's writing in Open Water (or maybe it's just the Blac...

In nine short stories 'Give my Love to the Savages' tells the tale of growing up as a black (biracial) male in the US...

Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of he...

It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings in the UK. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops...

29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary novelists, He...

Modern Europe is a melting pot of migrating souls: among them a Nigerian American couple on a prestigious arts fellow...

When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of her family, she is...

Dambudzo Marechera burst onto the literary scene in 1978 with this vivid roar of a book exploring township life in pr...

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or...

All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to s...

When the love of her life shows up with a girlfriend, Tia decides it's time to put herself out there. Expectations ...

In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist’s world is upended when her fiancé’s ...

Harley is a young queer Black man struggling to find his way in mid-noughties Britain. Returning home to Dartford, ha...

Swahili is the future. The first collection of Swahili fiction in English translation, No Edges introduces eight East...

Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection...

THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE REVOLUTIONARY DARK STAR TRILOGY In this mighty follow-up to his number one bestseller Black L...

Achike Okoro feels like his life is coming together at last. His top-floor flat in Peckham is as close to home as he ...

Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the indust...