Category: Global Majority Author
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12 May 2026 – I Can Hear the Cuckoo – Kiran Sidhu
I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a quietly luminous novel. It explores themes of grief, solitude, and the natural world. Kiran Sidhu writes with great attentiveness, allowing landscape, seasons and daily rituals to shape the emotional life of the story. At its heart, this is a novel about withdrawal and return. It explores what happens…
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9 June 2026 – James – Percival Everett
In James, Percival Everett reclaims a classic piece of American literature. He does this by retelling The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim. The result is sharp, unsettling and often darkly funny. Everett exposes the moral blind spots of the original text, using wit and satire to interrogate race, language and power.…
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13 Oct 2026 – Monstrilio – Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Monstrilio is a novel about grief that takes an unexpected and unsettling form. Blending elements of horror with emotional realism, it explores how love persists after devastating loss. The book asks difficult questions about attachment, transformation and the boundaries of care. Its strangeness is purposeful, giving shape to emotions that resist easy explanation. Rather than…
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8th October 2024 – Kindred by Octavia Butler
‘The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by’ GUARDIAN ‘One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had’ JUNOT DIAZ —In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer.In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he’s drowning.…
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12th March 2024 – Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…” To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents don’t approve of…
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10th October 2023 – Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021WINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE ‘A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love’ Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE Two young people meet…
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