and uncovers the dark side of the technology.


Chioma Okereke Water Baby Quercus, 30th December, £14.99, HB,


9781529425406 A coming-of-age story about a young woman who navigates life, love and grief on the lagoon where she was born. Based on the real settlement of Makoko in Nigeria.


Ben Okri Tiger Work Apollo, 6th July, £12.99, HB, 9781804545430 Inspired by environmental activism, this new collection blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.


We Are Not Like Them is a poignant story about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby. This sends her on a collision course with her past, her family and a birth mother who does not want to be found.


of a collection of rare books kept under lock and key. But when one of them is taken, it’s not a priceless edition but the diary of her employer’s dead wife...


Mihret Sibhat The History of a Difficult Child Penguin, 1st February 2024, £16.99, HB, 9781784744373 A vivid début novel about a hot-tempered child, and the impact of Ethiopia’s revolution on her family.


Cecilla Rabess Everything’s Fine Picador, 6th August, £16.99, HB, 9781529083170 When Jess, a liberal Black woman, and Josh, a preppy white conserva- tive, fall reluctantly, complicatedly, deeply in love, they are forced to ask themselves whether love can overcome two very different ways of seeing the world.


Andi Osho Tough Crowd HQ, 20th July, £8.99, PB, 9780008430986 A heartwarming romantic comedy about navigating dating someone with children and becoming a step-parent from come- dian and actress Osho.


Tomi Oyemakinde The Changing Man Macmillan Children’s Books, 9th July, £8.99, PB, 9781035003082 If Jordan Peele wrote a speculative YA it would be The Changing Man: a smart, pacy thriller perfect for fans of dark academia.


Soraya Palmer


The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts Serpent’s Tail, 6th February 2024, £9.99, PB, 9781788168410 A début novel weaving together Caribbean myth and the contemporary story of multiple genera- tions of an immigrant family.


Christine Pride & Jo Piazza You Were Always Mine HQ, 20th July, £16.99, HB, 9780008335984 The second novel from the writing duo behind


TheBookseller.com


Kiley Reid Come and Get It Bloomsbury, 9th January 2024, £16.99, HB, 9781526632548 A fresh, provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.


Vanessa Riley Queen of Exiles Mills & Boon, 20th July, £8.99, PB, 9780008636944 Based on the life of Haiti’s Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, this is the tale of a remarkable Black woman of history, forced to rebuild her life on her own terms.


Ray Shell Iced Canongate, 5th October, £10.99, PB, 9781838859961 A work of modern fiction tracing a man’s decline into the depths of addic- tion. Taking the form of a diary, Iced charts the life of 44-year-old Cornelius Washington. Iced is at once a shocking account of the addict’s life, and a compelling and often uplifting tale of human love and loss.


Kuchenga Shenje The Library Thief Sphere, 11th April 2024, £16.99, HB, 9781408726846 Florence is the keeper


A bewitching upmarket historical début set in the 17th century, this title follows an aspiring play- wright who’s apprenticed to a notorious witch- hunter during the witch trials, but is harbouring a dark secret that he can hear the songs of the dead.


Varaidzo Manny and the Baby Scribe, April 2024, £16.99, HB, 9781915590268 The début from the former gal-dem arts and culture editor explores love, family, kinship, identity, history and legacy.


Leïla Slimani Watch Us Dance Faber, 1st June, £14.99, HB, 9780571376063 The second volume in Slimani’s new trilogy, set in 1970s Morocco. According to the publisher, “It combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of André Aciman with the historical-fiction force of Maggie Shipstead and the exquisite sense of place and time of The Lost Daughter”.


Brandon Taylor The Late Americans Penguin, 22nd June, £18.99, HB, 9781787334434 The author of the Booker- shortlisted Real Life returns with a new novel of young men and women at a crossroads.


Jeferson Tenório The Dark Side of Skin Charco Books, 20th February 2024, £11.99, PB, 9781913867737 Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons which is tinged with the violence and trauma of racist police brutality.


Eva Verde In Bloom S&S, 6th June 2024, £8.99, PB, 9781398502901 The second novel from Verde. Too early for read- ing material but her well- received début Lives Like Mine explored identity, class and female rage.


Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend Bloomsbury, 3rd October, £18.99, HB,


9781526666710 This reimagining of American slavery follows Annis, who is sold by the white enslaver who fathered her and seeks comfort in memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother.


story of a Black Londoner who moves to a farming village with her husband and attempts to raise their 10-year-old fraternal twins of different colours.


Non-Fiction


Chinua Achebe Home and Exile Canongate, 4th January 2024, £9.99, PB, 9781786896131 Looking back at his own life and education, this book by the giant of African literature is a deeply personal and essential key for unlocking all of Achebe’s literature and politics.


boundaries imposed on us by society.


Darrin Bell The Talk Penguin, 8th June, £25, HB, 9781787334526 A pioneering graphic memoir on police brutality and “the talk” in which “parents must break to Black children that the world hates them”, from the only Black winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.


Courtney Daniella Boateng & Renée Kapuku To My Sisters Bluebird, 1st February 2024, £9.99, PB, 9781035005741 These “online big sisters” draw from their intimate experiences to teach, guide and show readers how to embrace the power of friendship and community in an authentic way.


Maggie Aderin-Pocock The Sky at Night Ebury, 2nd November, £16.99, PB, 9781785947896 The ultimate insider’s guide to the night sky in which award-winning space scientist and “The Sky at Night” presenter Aderin-Pocock shares her expertise and unique insights into the world of stars.


Margaret Wilkerson Sexton On the Rooftop Oneworld, 3rd August, £9.99, PB, 9780861546299 Set in Jazz-era San Francisco, this story of ambition and success follows three sisters who long to pursue their own dreams.


Stacey Thomas The Revels HQ, 20th July, £16.99, HB, 9780008566654


Fiona Williams The House of Broken Bricks Faber, 18th January 2024, £14.99, HB, 9780571379552 The début from the winner of the 2021 Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award is Faber’s winter 2024 superlead début title. It tells the


Janet Adler with Dan Glazebrook Unlawful Killing Dialogue Books, 25th April 2024, £18.99, HB, 9780349702858 The police killing of Christopher Alder was one of the most notori- ous deaths in custody in the UK, involving the destruction of evidence, illegal surveillance and even giving the family the wrong body to bury. This book will be both a prob- ing exposé of what went on, based on exhaustive documentary evidence, as well as the personal story of Christopher’s sister Janet’s fight to uncover the truth.


Travis Alabanza None of the Above Canongate, 6th July, £10.99, PB, 9781838854331 Alabanza blew me away when they performed at last year’s Futurebook conference. I loved this astute and powerful memoir about what it means to live outside the gender


Rachel Cargle A Renaissance of our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining Bodley Head, 25th May, £18.99, HB, 9781847926739 A memoir meets mani- festo on reimagining solidarity and self through knowledge, empathy and action.


Neneh Cherry A Thousand Threads Penguin, 11th April 2024, £20, HB, 9781787332904 The memoir of identity, art and acceptance from singer-songwriter Cherry is the story of a life shaped by an itinerant childhood infused with music and a raw account of the deep pain of racism and the challenges of a brutal industry.


Marcus Collins For the Culture Macmillan Business, 5th February 2024, £10.99, PB, 9781035020034 In For the Culture, Collins argues that the most powerful vehicle for influencing behaviour is true cultural engagement. Using captivating stories from his own life as a top marketer, Collins offers the essential tools for creating lasting engagement and influence.


Erika Council Still We Rise PRH USA, 8th August, £22, HB, 9780593236093 A love letter to the


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