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A coming-of-age debut novel, by the mother of Zadie Smith, about a young Jamaican girl faced with the trauma of immigration, estrangement from her family, and the emotional upheaval of moving to London in the 1960s.

Master manipulator or gangster? The malign thrust of Putin's domestic and foreign policy is exposed in Cunningham's latest page-turning biography including his early life, political career, the wars in Chechnya, Crimea and the Ukraine, the crackdown on human rights, Brexit, Trump - and the poisonings.

A love story in the slow lane: childhood sweethearts meet again in later life, and take a caravan trip - via pints, ponds and pit stops - to find their future on a road rarely travelled between Stoke-on-Trent (UK) and Wales.

Where is home, Mum?' From the foothills of the Himalayas in the Kashmiri valleys to bustling Green Street in East London, Sabba Khan researches her identity from the global to the local, covering partition, displacement, and clothing choices for an interview as a wannabe student at a prestigious private architectural school.

A gripping, stylish thriller set in London and Prague, in which a recently widowed young woman embarks on a high-stakes mission involving some truly dangerous people, and finds the road back to meaning and to life from a place of profound grief and shock. If she makes it back.

This extraordinary debut novel heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in Black women's writing. It is an interracial love story set in pre-Civil War America, and inspired by the true story of author Tammye's great-great grandparents. Along with love and race, it touches on themes of identity, sacrifice, belonging and survival.

Coming-of-age debut novel, by the mother of Zadie Smith, about a young Jamaican girl faced with the trauma of immigration, estrangement from her family, and the emotional upheaval of moving to London in the 1960s.

A personal account of gender violence, told in comic-book form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt.

COMA is a graphic memoir documenting one family's encounter with sudden illness and the permeating power of universal stories.

A roadmap of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn't see heroism in the shape of a girl.

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she's covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home. Bringing us her truth in an arresting, unsparing Trinidadian voice, Alethea unra...

Compelling, moving and teeming with feral desire: Elizabeth Haynes's new novel is an intoxicating story of love and redemption, set on a remote and windswept Scottish island.

From Oxfordshire to the Punjab, and with a novelist's eye for detail, this is a remarkable guide to our sense of place and its hidden stories.

graphic novel account of the forced exodus by the British of the Chagos Islanders from their homeland to help establish a US military presence in the Indian Ocean during the Cold War. It looks back to the first generation of slaves who arrived on the archipelago and their harsh life since displacement.

This epic love story between an Irish immigrant and a black slave is set in the pre-Civil War Southern state of Virginia in 1849 and based on the experience of the author's great-great grand-parents.

A milestone of graphic reporting, this groundbreaking 'atlas with attitude' keeps pace with the speed of change with informed analysis and graphically analyses every key indicator and vital statistic of modern life. This statistically meticulous and beautiful presentation of trends is essential to understand the world today.

A comic opera of a graphic novel, featuring a vibrant cast of women living and loving in London. interweaving their stories as they step out of the cookie cutter mould of what it means to be a woman today.

Showcasing the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, this major collection celebrates their contributions to literature and international culture.

This stylish and daring high-stakes thriller quickly strips its heroine of a future that should have been and propels her into a life skewed out of all recognition.

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