Category: Global Majority Author
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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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