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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 23 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood by Catherine Joy White
    This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood - by Catherine Joy White

    £12.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780349702629 | ISBN 10: 0349702624

    Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors.  Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Are You Doing Here? My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin
    What Are You Doing Here? My Autobiography - by Floella Benjamin

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529071061 | ISBN 10: 1529071062

    Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards   Baroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children’s television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blackgirl on Mars by Lesley-Ann Brown
    Blackgirl on Mars - by Lesley-Ann Brown

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914420283 | ISBN 10: 1914420284

    Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown’s two years’ worth of travel searching for “home”.  “Lesley-Ann Brown has a brave voice and a keen eye, offering an unflinching vie ... more

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    It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies - by Jessica Wilson

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781837820375 | ISBN 10: 1837820376

    Reclaim ownership of your health, rewrite the narrative surrounding body image and restore your right to healing, safety and self-love.  For too long Black women have been left out of discussions about body image, food, health and wellness. B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Black and Female - by Tsitsi Dangarembga

    £9.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571373192 | ISBN 10: 0571373194

    A short, staggering collection of essays from ‘one of the most remarkable people the Booker Prize has ever celebrated’ (New Statesman).   ‘A woman’s defiant fight to write.‘ Observer  Being categorised as black and female ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything
    Everything's Trash, But It's Okay - by Phoebe Robinson

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914344015 | ISBN 10: 1914344014

    Everything's Trash, But It's Okay is a timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world and provides a candid perspective for a generation that has had the rug pulled out from under it too many times to count.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women by Lecia Michelle
    The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women - by Lecia Michelle

    £22.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781496738370 | ISBN 10: 1496738373

    You’ve read White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist, but what comes next? The answer lies in this clear, actionable guide providing a vital 4-week program for becoming an ally who makes a real difference in the racial justice fight. Get the too ... more

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  • Cover image of book Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s by Barbara Blake Hannah
    Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s - by Barbara Blake Hannah

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993767 | ISBN 10: 0241993768

    "A gorgeously exuberant account... writing that is natural and vivacious... a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read."(Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction) Travelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She find ... more

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  • Cover image of book Misfits: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel
    Misfits: A Personal Manifesto - by Michaela Coel

    £9.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529148251 | ISBN 10: 1529148251

    From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in.   Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Loud Black Girls : 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What
    Loud Black Girls : 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next? - by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008342654 | ISBN 10: 0008342652

    An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane.   Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of tw ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
    This is Your Time - by Ruby Bridges

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911590590 | ISBN 10: 1911590596

    On November 14, 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges became the first black child to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans. Escorted by federal marshals past angry segregationist protesters, young Ruby attended William Frantz Elementary and e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones (Editor)
    Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought - by Briona Simone Jones (Editor)

    £16.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781620975763 | ISBN 10: 1620975769

    A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press’s perennial seller Words of Fire. "Briona Simone Jones’s anthology Mouths of Rain is an audacious, unapologetic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt
    Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging - by Tessa McWatt

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913348229 | ISBN 10: 1913348229

    "This remarkable meditation on beautiful, human bodies formed by the violence of slavery and by colonial shame resists categorisation, even as it shows up the ways in which categories of race and identity are no more than empty methods of social cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taking Up Space: The Black Girl
    Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change - by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529118544 | ISBN 10: 1529118549

    As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.  FOR BLACK GIRLS ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené
    Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible - by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008306304 | ISBN 10: 0008306303

    "Arguably the book for 2018"(Observer) The long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives.  Elle’s 12 addictive books you ... more

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  • Cover image of book She Called Me Woman: Nigeria
    She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak - by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan and Rafeeat Aliyu (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115595 | ISBN 10: 1911115596

    “We decided to put together this collection of thirty narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturising and the writing out of history.”   This stirring and intimate collection brings together 30 unique narratives t ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
    This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare - by Gabourey Sidibe

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784708443 | ISBN 10: 1784708445

    The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny.   This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe’s life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Beautiful Work In Progress by Mirna Valerio
    A Beautiful Work In Progress - by Mirna Valerio

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781503943391 | ISBN 10: 1503943399

    Runners’ vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for “Did Not Start” and DNF for “Did Not Finish,” but when Mirna Valerio stepped up to the starting line, she needed a new one: DNQ for “Did Not Quit.”   Valerio has tied on her ru ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family
    My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past - by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473616257 | ISBN 10: 1473616255

    An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.   When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happ ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Passion for Freedom: My Life by Mamphela Ramphele
    A Passion for Freedom: My Life - by Mamphela Ramphele

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784530426 | ISBN 10: 1784530425

    Mamphela Ramphele is a figurehead of modern South Africa. The partner of Steve Biko, until his death in 1977, she has demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and statesmanship, most recently as the leader of the Agang SA party.   In t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus by Peggy and Murray Schwartz
    The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus - by Peggy and Murray Schwartz

    £19.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300187939 | ISBN 10: 0300187939

    Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce Davies (Editor)
    Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment - by Carole Boyce Davies (Editor)

    £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

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