Fiction

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...

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...

From the bestselling, National Book Award–winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the stor...

One morning in Paris on the way to kindergarten, a little girl asks her father “Papa, why do you dance when you walk...

Wash Day Diaries tells the story of four best friends—Kim, Tanisha, Davene, and Cookie—through five connected short s...

On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement...

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and for...

From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over...

Escape into a world of magic and danger with THE DARK STAR TRILOGY. Drawing on a rich tradition of African mythology,...

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from Amer...

“Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people’s lives been ...

A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and ...

From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad...

From award-winning Eritrean author Haji Jabir comes a profoundly intimate novel about one man’s tireless attempt to ...

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging a...

Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tr...

After his acclaimed debut novel Open Water, Caleb Azumah Nelson is back with another story firmly rooted in a Black n...

A deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel about discovering love where it has always been. Elsie is a sexy...

I absolutely loved this book! At first I was intimidated by it's size, but it's truly an engaging read from the first...

Jeanphi, a young man from the fictional West African city Ouabany, has one obsession that will determine the fate of ...

So Long a Letter is a booklenght letter written by a recently widowed woman to her best friend. It is immensely touch...

A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on th...

The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an educa...

In a poetic narrative supported by Anshika Kullar's illustrations, we follow the story of Michael. He is growing up q...