Fiction

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

Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation - an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa - seems fu...

In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. Asha was born into a broken world. T...

On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resili...

An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice. Wallace has spent his summer in the lab...

In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a ...

It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric ward. She is unapologetically loud, audacious and etern...

Three strangers, each isolated by his or her own problems: Adaora, the marine biologist. Anthony, the rapper famous t...

Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese ...

Rainbow Milk is a coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and ...

A starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shar...

Beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation of the famous sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and ...

VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of L...

In the final part in the Tambudzai trilogy (Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not) we see Tambu in Harare, struggling t...

Nightcrawling tells the story of 17-year old Kiara who finds herself in trouble when she does what it takes to take c...

Published in 1993, Parable of the Sower is a science-fiction work portraying a dystopian 2025. Lauren Olamina try to ...

This stunning short story collection takes you to the streets of New Orleans, the people, the dreams they have. Openi...

Writing a romcom that a Black, British-Nigerian woman like herself could relate to was the task that Lizzie Damilola ...

This short-story collection really blew me away with it's originality and genrebending writing. From awry Cameroonian...

Who doesn't love a good surprise? Get a hand-picked book for yourself or as a gift to someone else! If you order mult...

In this near-future dystopian novel, the mysterious 'unraveling' has caused power outages, national crisis and white ...

What can one say about a classic that hasn’t already been said? I’d like to explain why I chose it for the Base Books...

Lesley Nneka Arimah knows as no other how to dissect familial relationships, with tales that are sometimes shocking, ...

Three very different women are desperate for their lives to change. Though strangers, they are drawn to the same plac...

Comic book.   Soft cover | pages | 9781302906504

A powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be yourself. Raised as a boy in a grand but ...

Stunning novel with a lost narrator, bouncing between New York, Berlin and Vietnam, and ex-girlfriend and her dead tw...

Short story collection with science-fiction and fantasy stories from the foreseeing writer N.K. Jemisin.   Paperback ...

A love story and critique of American racism at once, 'If Beale Street Could Talk' is another must read classic by Ba...

Debut short story collection from the now famous Roxane Gay. Each story relates the experience of someone in the Hait...

Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its bru...

And what other land could that be than Nigeria? 87-year old Nobelprize winning playwright and writer Wole Soyinka wro...

This book really blew me away. Written beautifully (translated from French by Nchanji Njamnsi), Days Come & Go ...