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Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no different from other young mothers, but her secret sets her apart. She belongs to a kind of club, which involves luxury, beautiful clothes and accessories.The club makes it possible for Kayo to escape her tedious life, to become someone else and to embrace a dazzling new world. But it quickly becomes an obsession, a drug, the way to both paradise and hell. Can she find her way ou...

A wild, marauding vision on acid. Nikhil Singh creates a world that threatens to leave the confines of the page. Brilliantly compelling." Irenosen Okojie, author of Speak Gigantular

Nephthys, daughter of Horus and twin sister of Osiris ferries souls in her taxi cab in Washington, DC. When her great-nephew, 10 year old Dash, shows up on her doorstep with a mysterious note from the River Man, a community must ban together to save the young boy and in doing so, reclaim themselves.

Commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the sinking of the SS Mendi, Dancing the Death Drill paints a brilliant picture of a moment in history and brings to life some of the stories from the many who perished as well as of those who survived.

Long after Fina has left Sierra Leone, memories of a broken initiation haunt her. She longs to return home, to trace the path set for young girls centuries past. In this contemporary novel exploring ethnicity, gender and female circumcision, follow this intelligent young African woman as she balances the weights of tradition and modernity.

Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces in Becoming Muhammad Ali, the illustrated novel on the life of the boxing legend. A mixture of prose and verse, it follows the life of the young Ali up until age 17. Written with the cooperation and support of Muhammad Ali's estate, this is one of the best books of the year for younger readers.

With her signature 'raw yet beautiful, disturbing yet hopeful' (Booklist) prose, Catherine Hernandez creates a vision of the future that is all the more frightening because it is very possible. A cautionary tale filled with fierce and vibrant characters, 'Crosshairs' explores the universal desire to thrive, love, and be loved for being your true self.

Crime solving duos Preddy and Harris are back again, investigating the murder of a young man under a grand marquee at Sugar Rush Beach. Between the competing development companies rushing to win the Sugar Rush contract, suspects abound. As the case closes in, so does Preddy's suspicion that this isn't the only case Harris is investigating.

The further Naomi's husband rises, the more space accumulates in their home - space for doubts, for secrets, and for loftier dreams than she ever considered.

As Kavata's family falls apart, so too does her country. In the wake of Kenya's post-election turmoil, Kavata and her family must find their way back to each other across a landscape of wide-spread confusion, desperation, and heartrending loss.

Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection by award-winning author Kim McLarin that explores what it means to be a Black woman in today's turbulent times. Combining statistics and studies with lived experience, Womanish is a comprehensive and cathartic text.

Zakes Mda's fine novel Little Suns weaves the true events surrounding the death of Magistrate Hope into a touching story of love and perseverance that can transcend exile and strife.

A powerful look at race and race relations in America, Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is a vital text that is just as relevant today as it was when it was published.

Betty Trask Award winner 2016.A stunning debut from the author of Speak Gigantular.A fragile outsider living in London, Joy struggles to pull the threads of her life back together after her mother's sudden death. Emptiness consumes her and, needing to fill the gaps of her loss, she finds she is drawn to a unique artefact inherited from her mother - a warrior's head cast in brass that belonged to a king in eighteenth century Benin, Nigeria.Joy ...

Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa's recent past and near future starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of the 2010s, and on to the looming, large-scale ecological disasters of the 2040s.

Through the Leopard's Gaze is an amazing memoir chronicling the award winning comedian's difficult but inspiring life growing up in Kenya. Her book illuminates family abuse, racism identity and emotional triumph through the lenses of the author's personal history and the history of Kenya.

Fans of "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent" are set to enjoy this First Nations young adult novel, in which the indigenous people of North America are hunted for their bone marrow in a post global warming landscape. Frenchie and his companions are only after survival, but little do they know that one of their number holds the secret to stopping the marrow thieves.

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Set in Italy and spanning the years from before World War II to the present day, Adua is the unforgettable story of a father and daughter grappling with the implications of colonialism, immigration and racism that have bisected both of their lives.

Book 2 in the Caribbean crime series featuring Detectives Raythan Preddy and Scottish expat Sean Harris. When a high ranking judge is found murdered at his Jamaican seafront villa, the investigation falls into the hands of Pelican Walk's lead detectives.