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BOOKS


Forthcoming titles Black Authors’ Preview


Forthcoming titles Black Authors’ Preview A preview of new titles recently published, or issued in the next 12 months


The range of books by Black creatives slated for the next 12 months is refreshingly far broader than has been the case in recent years, with wide appeal


Natasha Onwuemezi @tashaisblue


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lack boy joy. Black girl magic. Romantic comedies. Sci-fi adventures. Masculinit and mental health. Tarot. The best thing about puting this preview together has been seeing in black-and-white the multi-faceted, multi-layered stories Black authors have to tell. I’m so glad to see us moving away from books almost exclusively about Black pain or slavery, which, while important, don’t allow enough space for the boundless creativit and insight Black authors have to offer. This preview travels the world, from


Brixton to Lagos, from Addis Ababa to Trinidad, and covers topics like cookery, kniting, mental health and music. A specific trend I noticed was a boom in business books focused on helping Black people hustle and succeed in the workplace, with particular insight into the worlds of tech, venture capitalism and corporate boards. It’s time for us to get paid, you feel me. It was also hard to whitle down my top five when there was such talent submited from Black British authors, specifically including the GOATs Malorie Blackman and Sir Lenny Henry, superstars Candice Cart-Williams, Bolu Babalola, Dapo Adeola and J J Bola, and up-and-comers Moses McKenzie, Danielle Jawando, and the writers of Jacaranda’s A Quick Ting On series. Electrifying, illuminating and absorbing, all the books in this preview point to the truth we knew all along: Black authors are talented, creative and dripping with sauce. All they need is opportunit.


42 9th April 2021 Fiction


ask for anything more? In first-person Creole, it tells the “heart-wrenching” story of a woman, both liberated and in need of liberation, who witnesses a woman being murdered by her jealous lover.


Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor The Dragonfly Sea September Publishing, £21.89, 2nd Sep, 9781912836475 This “epic and immersive” sea-infused title is the first novel from independent publisher September, and represents the beginning of a boutique fiction list for the press. A coming- of-age novel set on Kenya’s coast, it follows a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world.


Nancy Adimora & Ore Agbaje-Williams (eds) Of This Our Country HarperFiction, 30th Sep, £14.99, 9780008469269 Edited by HarperCollins staffers Adimora and Agbaje-Williams, this collection of personal essays illuminates the multifaceted and complex nature of Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria. Featuring contributions from acclaimed writers Ayobámi Adébáyo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chigozie Obioma, Of This Our Country weaves a vibrant and living portrait of Nigeria.


Amen Alonge A Good Day to Die Quercus, Feb 2022, £14.99, 9781529415186 Touted as the British answer to “The Wire”, Alonge’s action-packed thriller follows Pretty Boy, a man desperate for vengeance. His plan is to find the person responsible for his exile from London, but this is derailed when he takes possession of a highly coveted bracelet, and the hunter becomes the hunted...


writing” the new imprint aims to champion.


Raymond Antrobus All the Names Given Pan Macmillan, 2nd Sep, £10.99, 9781529059502 The latest collection from 2019’s Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year is filled with intimate, deeply personal poems that are haunted by gods and ghosts, and the “painful electricity” that pulses through the wires of lineage and inheri- tance. The poems travel between Africa, America, the Caribbean, and the London streets Antrobus grew up on.


the trappings of modern life, while “putting the short story form through a literary mincer”. Dark and captivating, Man Hating Psycho is not one to be missed.


Bolu Babalola Honey & Spice Headline, July 2022, £14.99, 9781472286383 The hotly-anticipated début novel from the author of short story collection Love in Colour (which is out in paperback in June), Honey & Spice features a “Bridgerton”- esque fake relationship which threatens to become something deeper. Full of “delicious tension and romantic intrigue”, Headline says this is the romantic comedy you don’t want to miss. I agree...


Rosanna Amaka The Book of Echoes Black Swan, 1st July, £12.99, 9780857526717 The paperback version of a “new classic”, The Book of Echoes is a sweeping début about a boy from Brixton and a girl from Nigeria, whose struggle for happiness began “many lifetimes ago”.


Lisa Allen-Agostini The Bread the Devil Knead Myriad, out now, £8.99, 9781912408993 Allen-Agostini’s arresting domestic noir novel set in Trinidad’s carnival season is alive with sex, murder and secrets—could you


Sussie Anie To Fill a Yellow House Phoenix, March 2022, £14.99, 9781474621694 The second novel by British-Ghanaian author Anie, To Fill a Yellow House will be a lead title for Phoenix, Francesca Main’s new imprint at Orion. The story of an unlikely friendship between a young second- generation immigrant and the white middle-aged owner of a local charity shop, Main says the novel has “exactly the kind of distinctive, story-driven and emotionally powerful


Mateo Askaripour Black Buck John Murray, 27th May, £14.99, 9781529376722 Already published in the US, this “crackling, satirical” début has garnered praise from Colson Whitehead and the American media. Black Buck follows a young man who is given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like start-up where “nothing is as it seems”. It will be John Murray’s lead fiction début of 2021.


Yvonne Bailey-Smith The Day I Fell Off My Island Myriad, 10th June, £12.99, 9781912408955 The first book from Bailey-Smith, the mother of Zadie Smith and Doc Brown. As an immigrant child and a former psychologist, Bailey-Smith wanted to explore the pain of leaving loved ones and starting afresh in a new country. This insightful coming-of-age début gives voice to the reluctant immigrants who are forced to deal with the upheavals and transitions associated with moving to a new country.


Iphgenia Baal Man Hating Psycho Influx, 29th May, £9.99, 9781910312797 Baal’s caustic collection of stories feature armchair activists, drug-addled aristocrats, anonymous #MeToo-ers, laying bare


Rena Barron Reaper of Souls HarperFiction, 19th Aug, £14.99, 9780008302283 In this sequel to Kingdom of Souls, Barron weaves a tale of mythology, love, and action drawn from West African history and

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