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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 24 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529118698 | ISBN 10: 1529118697
'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph Malorie Blackman is one of Brit ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993620 | ISBN 10: 0241993628
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutio ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366989 | ISBN 10: 0571366988
The rediscovered classic: a trailblazing Guyanese woman's memoir of post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion')Â Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529415315 | ISBN 10: 1529415314
Candice Brathwaite’s much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she’d been told when she was young and needed guidance. I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspi ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181021 | ISBN 10: 1800181027
100 Voices is an anthology of writing by women across the country on what achievement means for them, and how they have come to find their own voice. Â Featuring poetry, fiction and memoir, the pieces range from notes on making lemon curd, to tale ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781909770652 | ISBN 10: 1909770655
'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?' A generation of Nigerian children were ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529406283 | ISBN 10: 1529406285
It's about time we made motherhood more diverse... Â When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785906039 | ISBN 10: 1785906038
More than three decades after her election to Parliament, Diane Abbott is still racking up firsts. The first black woman elected to Parliament, she also recently became the first black person to represent their party at PMQs. Abbott came to fame in t ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788735094 | ISBN 10: 1788735099
'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781999894122 | ISBN 10: 199989412x
This is Us captures a lifetime of lived experiences from Black British women, retelling their stories of challenges and hardships, triumphs and strengths. Collected by Kafayat Okanlawon from strangers, acquaintances, friends and family, the book ties ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846149825 | ISBN 10: 1846149827
"A major literary talent... speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way... you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest."(Stylist) 'You ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509858392 | ISBN 10: 1509858393
'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'Â From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909762350 | ISBN 10: 1909762350
A pioneer and a trailblazer, Evelyn Dove left a mark in the arts industry. She was the first black female singer on BBC Radio and the first black British female singer to work in America, a quarter of a century before Shirley Bassey. In a ca ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472925565 | ISBN 10: 1472925564
Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a ki ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956240163 | ISBN 10: 095624016x
Claudia Jones was a smart, politically-wise, brilliant, transnational feminist, Pan Africanist theorist and cultural activist who brought together in her speeches and writings the politics that is now seen as a necessary way of intersecting a variet ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752453750 | ISBN 10: 0752453750
A tribute to the Black community of London. This fascinating illustrated history traces the relationship of London to her Black citizens over the past centuries. Susan Okokon provides a detailed testimony and visual record of this importa ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905664375 | ISBN 10: 1905664370
I could have been born and raised in Africa. But my Spirit was in too much of a rush to be reincarnated... At six weeks I was chucked out into the new year of 1965 which wasn’t prepared to welcome an African baby, abandoned on a harsh English winter’ ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593096 | ISBN 10: 0747593094
How does it feel to lose your job in front of 10 million people? To become an MP in your twenties? To ask a Government Whip for time to see your husband? To sleep on the floor while waiting to vote in the middle of the night? To represent the Secreta ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753513170 | ISBN 10: 075351317x
Kelly Holmes had two dreams - to join the army, and bring home a gold medal from the Olympic Games. But winning double gold in the 2004 Olympics and becoming Dame Kelly Holmes was much more than fulfilling a dream; it was a reward for a lifetime of r ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781934389201 | ISBN 10: 193438920x
There's a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she's already been there. Her presence is everywhere. Black Women for Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from an ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571234592 | ISBN 10: 0571234593
This is the heartbreaking story of a mother's loss. It is also the story of how one ordinary black woman and her husband changed the face of British policing and the criminal justice system. In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780953247714 | ISBN 10: 0953247716
If you only ever buy one book this has to be it. This book is just extraordinary in the true meaning of the word. It is rare to find a book, which voices the experience of black women on such a wide range of issues. This book is straight talking and ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781842774410 | ISBN 10: 1842774417
Against all the odds, a poorly funded, radical women's group - Southall Black Sisters - has become synonymous with black British Feminism over the last 21 years. They have not merely offered welfare advice from their West London base, but have spear ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780140437492 | ISBN 10: 0140437495
Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like cayenne on the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Island and Antigua, eventua ... more
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