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From firebrand fiction to cultural history, and from seminal lives to inspiring volumes for children, we're celebrating classic works and contemporary triumphs from the best black authors and commentators.

Voices for Change

Our best books on the Black experience and politics.

Me and White Supremacy
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Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad
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White Fragility
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White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
£9.99
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The Good Immigrant
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The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
£8.99
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Caste
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Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
£20.00
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Superior
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Superior
Angela Saini
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
Candice Brathwaite
£16.99
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
£8.99
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Everyone Versus Racism
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Everyone Versus Racism
Patrick Hutchinson
£12.99
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The Power of Privilege
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The Power of Privilege
June Sarpong
£5.00
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They Can't Kill Us All
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They Can't Kill Us All
Wesley Lowery
£9.99
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The Art of Disruption
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The Art of Disruption
Magid Magid
£14.99
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Brown Baby
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Brown Baby
Nikesh Shukla
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Loud Black Girls
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Loud Black Girls
Yomi Adegoke
£14.99
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Slay In Your Lane
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Slay In Your Lane
Yomi Adegoke
£9.99
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Taking Up Space
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Taking Up Space
Chelsea Kwakye
£8.99
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The Purpose of Power
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The Purpose of Power
Alicia Garza
£14.99
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Black & British

Our best books on the British Black experience and history.

Natives
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Natives
Akala
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The Brutish Museums
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The Brutish Museums
Dan Hicks
£20.00
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Homecoming
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Homecoming
Colin Grant
£9.99
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Don't Touch My Hair
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Don't Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri
£9.99
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Brit(ish)
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Brit(ish)
Afua Hirsch
£9.99
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Safe
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Safe
Derek Owusu
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Dreaming in a Nightmare
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Dreaming in a Nightmare
Jeremiah Emmanuel
£12.99
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Black, Listed
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Black, Listed
Jeffrey Boakye
£8.99
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100 Great Black Britons
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100 Great Black Britons
Patrick Vernon
£20.00
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Black Britain
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Black Britain
Paul Gilroy
£19.99
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Black Tudors
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Black Tudors
Miranda Kaufmann
£10.99
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Lovers and Strangers
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Lovers and Strangers
Clair Wills
£10.99
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Staying Power
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Staying Power
Peter Fryer
£16.99
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Paul Gilroy
£14.99
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Voices of the Windrush Generation
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Voices of the Windrush Generation
David Matthews
£8.99
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Heart Of The Race
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Heart Of The Race
Beverley Bryan
£11.99
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The Truths We Hold
The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris
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Through the arc of her own career and lifelong commitment to social justice, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris communicates a powerful vision on how to tackle the greatest challenges of our day.

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The American Experience

Our top books on being Black in America.

Becoming
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
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The Audacity of Hope
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The Audacity of Hope
President Barack Obama
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Dreams From My Father
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Dreams From My Father
President Barack Obama
£25.00   £12.50
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I Can't Breathe
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I Can't Breathe
Matt Taibbi
£9.99
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Just Us
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Just Us
Claudia Rankine
£25.00
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley
£9.99
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The Yellow House
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The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
£16.99
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Memorial Drive
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Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey
£16.99
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Between The World And Me
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Between The World And Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
£10.99
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The Warmth of Other Suns
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
£12.99
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Dreams From My Father
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Dreams From My Father
President Barack Obama
£9.99
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Negroland
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Negroland
Margo Jefferson
£8.99
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On the Other Side of Freedom
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On the Other Side of Freedom
DeRay Mckesson
£9.99
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Sister Outsider
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Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
£9.99
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American Slavery
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American Slavery
Peter Kolchin
£12.99
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We Were Eight Years in Power
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We Were Eight Years in Power
Ta-Nehisi Coates
£9.99
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On Slavery and Abolitionism
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On Slavery and Abolitionism
Sarah Grimke
£9.99
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Remarkable Lives

Our best biographies about Black lives.

The Louder I Will Sing
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The Louder I Will Sing
Lee Lawrence
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Long Walk To Freedom
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Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela
£14.99
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
£8.99
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Notes of a Native Son
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Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
£8.99
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Why We Can't Wait
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Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King
£9.99
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Becoming
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
£25.00   £19.99
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
£5.99
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Born A Crime
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Born A Crime
Trevor Noah
£9.99
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I Am Not Your Negro
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I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin
£8.99
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Rise Up
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Rise Up
Stormzy
£10.99
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White Girls
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White Girls
Hilton Als
£9.99
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Unforgivable Blackness
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Unforgivable Blackness
Geoffrey Ward
£10.99
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Black Boy
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Black Boy
Richard Wright
£9.99
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Negroland
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Negroland
Margo Jefferson
£8.99
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Familiar Stranger
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Familiar Stranger
Stuart Hall
£9.99
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Rabble-Rouser For Peace
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Rabble-Rouser For Peace
John Allen
£14.99
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The Last Holiday
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The Last Holiday
Gil Scott-Heron
£10.99
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Hidden Figures
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Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
£8.99
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Staying Power

Our top books on Black history.

The Whole Picture
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The Whole Picture
Alice Procter
£16.99
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Dictatorland
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Dictatorland
Paul Kenyon
£10.00
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The State of Africa
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The State of Africa
Martin Meredith
£10.99
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The Looting Machine
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The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis
£9.99
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The Emperor
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The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuscinski
£8.99
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The Black Jacobins
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The Black Jacobins
C L R James
£14.99
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The Sugar Barons
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The Sugar Barons
Matthew Parker
£10.99
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The World's War
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The World's War
David Olusoga
£10.99
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A Short History of Slavery
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A Short History of Slavery
James Walvin
£9.99
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Empire's Crossroads
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Empire's Crossroads
Carrie Gibson
£12.99
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Women, Race & Class
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
£9.99
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Black Spartacus
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Black Spartacus
Sudhir Hazareesingh
£25.00
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Afropean
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Afropean
Johny Pitts
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African Europeans
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African Europeans
Olivette Otele
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Back to Black
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Back to Black
Kehinde Andrews
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A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
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A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
Martin Luther King
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
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Ain't I A Woman?
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Ain't I A Woman?
Sojourner Truth
£5.99
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Jhalak Prize 2020

The Jhalak Prize celebrates books by British and British resident writers of colour.

Golden Child
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Golden Child
Claire Adam
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The Black Flamingo
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The Black Flamingo
Dean Atta
£7.99
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Remembered
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Remembered
Yvonne Battle-Felton
£8.99
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Surge
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Surge
Jay Bernard
£10.00
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Asha & the Spirit Bird
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Asha & the Spirit Bird
Jasbinder Bilan
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Queenie
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
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Fleche
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Fleche
Mary Jean Chan
£10.99
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Hostile Environment
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Hostile Environment
Maya Goodfellow
£12.99
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This Brutal House
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This Brutal House
Niven Govinden
£8.99
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Suncatcher
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Suncatcher
Romesh Gunesekera
£8.99
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Nudibranch
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Nudibranch
Irenosen Okojie
£14.99
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Afropean
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Afropean
Johny Pitts
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Classic Fiction

The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker
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Beloved
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
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Corregidora
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Corregidora
Gayl Jones
£9.99
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The Lonely Londoners
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The Lonely Londoners
Sam Selvon
£8.99
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A Different Drummer
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A Different Drummer
William Melvin Kelley
£8.99
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Kindred
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
£9.99
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
£8.99
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Invisible Man
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
£9.99
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Native Son
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Native Son
Richard Wright
£10.99
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Americanah
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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And Still I Rise
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And Still I Rise
Dr Maya Angelou
£8.99
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To Sir With Love
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To Sir With Love
E. R. Braithwaite
£8.99
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Roots
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Roots
Alex Haley
£10.99
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Cane
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Cane
Jean Toomer
£11.99
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A Grain of Wheat
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A Grain of Wheat
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
£9.99
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Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
£8.99
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We Need New Names
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We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
£8.99
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
£9.99
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Contemporary Fiction

Such a Fun Age
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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
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The Vanishing Half
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
£14.99
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Dare
£8.99   £7.49
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Girl, Woman, Other
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
£8.99   £7.49
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Lot
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Lot
Bryan Washington
£8.99
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That Reminds Me
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That Reminds Me
Derek Owusu
£12.99
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Heaven, My Home
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Heaven, My Home
Attica Locke
£8.99
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The Old Drift
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The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
£9.99
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Remembered
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Remembered
Yvonne Battle-Felton
£8.99
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Sun is Sky
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Sun is Sky
Jedah Mayberry
£8.99
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£8.99   £7.99
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Silver Sparrow
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Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones
£16.99
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The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
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The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
Okechukwu Nzelu
£8.99   £7.49
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Queenie
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Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
£8.99   £7.49
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An American Marriage
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
£8.99   £7.49
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White Teeth
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith
£8.99
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The Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
£8.99
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Homegoing
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
£8.99
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Black and British: A short, essential history
Black and British: A short, essential history
David Olusoga
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Revised and rewritten for younger readers, Olusoga’s insightful and invaluable history of the Black experience in the British Isles ranges from forgotten Africans in the Roman legions to the multicultural society of the present day.

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Young, Gifted & Black

Our best books for children on Black history and diversity

This Book Is Anti-Racist
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This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany Jewell
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Look Up!
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Look Up!
Nathan Bryon
£6.99   £5.99
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Clean Up!
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Clean Up!
Dapo Adeola
£6.99   £5.99
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High-Rise Mystery
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High-Rise Mystery
Sharna Jackson
£6.99   £5.99
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Antiracist Baby
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Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi
£6.99
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Amari and the Night Brothers
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Amari and the Night Brothers
BB Alston
£12.99
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Space Detectives
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Space Detectives
Mark Powers
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Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow
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Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow
Benjamin Dean
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My Dad Is A Grizzly Bear
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My Dad Is A Grizzly Bear
Swapna Haddow
£6.99   £5.99
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Young Gifted and Black
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Young Gifted and Black
Jamia Wilson
£9.99
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Coming to England
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Coming to England
Floella Benjamin
£12.99
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Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country
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Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country
Atinuke
£14.99
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Mixed
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Mixed
Arree Chung
£6.99
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Long Walk to Freedom
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Long Walk to Freedom
Chris Van Wyk
£7.99
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Little People, Big Dreams

The Little People, Big Dreams series introduces young readers to inspiring people in history.

Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks
Lisbeth Kaiser
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Lisbeth Kaiser
£9.99
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Ella Fitzgerald
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Aretha Franklin
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Aretha Franklin
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Josephine Baker
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Josephine Baker
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Stevie Wonder
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Stevie Wonder
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Muhammad Ali
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Muhammad Ali
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Jesse Owens
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Jesse Owens
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Wilma Rudolph
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Wilma Rudolph
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Evonne Goolagong
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Evonne Goolagong
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Prince
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Prince
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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RuPaul
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RuPaul
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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Pele
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Pele
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
£9.99
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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Wilma Rudolph
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Wilma Rudolph
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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Jesse Owens
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Jesse Owens
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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Young Adult Fiction

Our best Teen and YA novels by Black writers.

Cinderella Is Dead
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Cinderella Is Dead
Kalynn Bayron
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Legendborn
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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
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Punching the Air
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Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi
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You Should See Me in a Crown
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You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson
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The Black Flamingo
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The Black Flamingo
Dean Atta
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
Roseanne A. Brown
£12.99
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Raybearer
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Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko
£7.99
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The Black Kids
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The Black Kids
Christina Hammonds Reed
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Crossfire
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Crossfire
Malorie Blackman
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Clap When You Land
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Clap When You Land
Elizabeth Acevedo
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Tomi Adeyemi
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Refugee Boy
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Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah
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On the Come Up
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On the Come Up
Angie Thomas
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With the Fire on High
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With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo
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Concrete Rose
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Concrete Rose
Angie Thomas
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The Gilded Ones
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The Gilded Ones
Namina Forna
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Come on in
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Come on in
Adi Alsaid
£12.99
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The Dark Lady
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The Dark Lady
Akala
£12.99
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Coming Soon

A Promised Land
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A Promised Land
President Barack Obama
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GIRL
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GIRL
Kenya Hunt
£16.99
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Anti-Racist Ally
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Anti-Racist Ally
Sophie Williams
£6.99
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Be Antiracist
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Be Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
£9.99
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Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal
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Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal
Layla Saad
£14.99
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Silver Sparrow
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Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones
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Grand Union
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Grand Union
Zadie Smith
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Nudibranch
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Nudibranch
Irenosen Okojie
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The Cancer Journals
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The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde
£7.99
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Let Love Rule
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Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz
£20.00
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African Europeans
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African Europeans
Olivette Otele
£20.00
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The Brutish Museums
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The Brutish Museums
Dan Hicks
£20.00
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Everyone Versus Racism
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Everyone Versus Racism
Patrick Hutchinson
£12.99
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Whites
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Whites
Otegha Uwagba
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The Purpose of Power
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The Purpose of Power
Alicia Garza
£14.99
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The Windrush Betrayal
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The Windrush Betrayal
Amelia Gentleman
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Poor
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Poor
Caleb Femi
£9.99
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Privilege and Punishment
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Privilege and Punishment
Matthew Clair
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Four Top Authors on What to Read This Black History Month

Four Top Authors on What to Read This Black History Month

Paul Mendez, Okechukwu Nzelu, Brit Bennett and Irenosen Okojie recommend their favourite reads for Black History Month.

Angelina Osborne on an Inspiring Quartet of Great Black Britons

Angelina Osborne on an Inspiring Quartet of Great Black Britons

This Black History Month, Angelina Osborne, the co-author of 100 Great Black Britons, presents four profiles of key figures from Black British history.

Bernardine Evaristo Reveals her Top 20 Books by Black British Womxn Writers

Bernardine Evaristo Reveals her Top 20 Books by Black British Womxn Writers

Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo unveiled a brilliantly diverse list of books at Waterstones Bristol Galleries.