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Black and British

David Olusoga Author
Jake Alexander Illustrator
(2021)

English

This beautiful hardback gift book is a stunning visual journey through Black British history for younger readers by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and illustrated by Jake Ale... Read more

Windrush

Trevor Phillips Author
Mike Phillips Author
(2023)

English

The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its ... Read more

Black History for Every Day...

David Olusoga Author
Yinka Olusoga Author
(2024)

English

Change everything you thought you knew about history and the people who have shaped it.Black History for Every Day of the Year by historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and his siblings, Yinka and... Read more

Black History in an Hour

History in an Hour (Series)

Rupert Colley Author
(2011)

English

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview... Read more

Black and British

Picador Collection (Series)

David Olusoga Author
(2016)

English

'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' – Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday TimesIn this vital re-exa... Read more

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla Editor
(2016)

English

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or to be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? H... Read more

Little Black Book

Otegha Uwagba Author
(2017)

English

'Little Black Book is THE book of the year for working women with drive' Refinery 29 The essential career handbook for creative working women. 'A compact gem' Stylist Little Black Book: A Toolkit F... Read more

Slay In Your Lane

Yomi Adegoke Author
Yomi Adegoke Narrator
(2018)

English

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. 'This book is a gift fo... Read more

Brit(ish)

Afua Hirsch Author
(2018)

English

From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today.You'r... Read more

Afropean

Johny Pitts Author
Johny Pitts Narrator
(2019)

English

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Afropean written and read by Johny Pitts.In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large ... Read more

My Name Is Why

Lemn Sissay Author
(2019)

English

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER INDIE BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION WINNER 'EXTRAORDINARY' The Times, 'BEAUTIFUL' Dolly Alderton, 'SHATTERING' Observer, 'INCREDIBLE' Benjamin Zephaniah, 'UNPUTDOWN... Read more

Homecoming

Colin Grant Author
Colin Grant Narrator
(2019)

English

Brought to you by Penguin.When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. 'We're here because we're here,' his f... Read more

Black Teacher

Beryl Gilroy Author
Bernardine Evaristo Author of introduction, etc.
(2021)

English

The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, move... Read more

Island on Fire

Tom Zoellner Author
Mirron Willis Narrator
(2020)

English

From a New York Times bestselling author, a gripping account of the slave rebellion that led to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamai... Read more

Black and Female

Tsitsi Dangarembga Author
(2022)

English

'A woman's defiant fight to write.' Observer Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femalenes... Read more

A Black Boy at Eton

Black Britain: Writing Back (Series)

Dillibe Onyeama Author
Bernardine Evaristo Author of introduction, etc.
(2022)

English

'The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . A remarkably well-written memoir' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionDillibe was the second black b... Read more

Rising to the Surface

Lenny Henry Author
(2022)

English

The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s. 'Moving and ebullient' Daily Telegraph 'Relayed with characteristic exuberance and self-de... Read more

Dispatches from the Diaspora

Gary Younge Author
(2023)

English

BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 *Includes additional material* A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leadi... Read more

Revolutionary Acts

Jason Okundaye Author
Jason Okundaye Narrator
(2024)

English

Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before. 'In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, te... Read more