Fiction
Jose Ando, Kalau Almony (trans) Jackson Alone, Footnote Press, 15th January, £12.99, HB, 9781804442838 This short, sharp debut is about four mixed-raced Black Japanese gay men out for revenge when a disturbing pornographic video of one of them is circulated online.
This sizzling rivals-to-lovers workplace romcom about surviving your 20s.
about changing your life, learning to love yourself – and what it really means to be free.
IO Echeruo The Comfort of Distant Stars
Canongate, 12th March, £18.99, HB, 9781837263332
This “highly original” debut novel draws from quantum physics and Igbo cosmology.
Brian Chikwava Shamiso Canongate, 28th August, £12.99, HB, 9781805301271
Yvonne Battle-Felton Curdle Creek Dialogue Books, 30th October, £9.99, PB, 9780349703558
This haunting take on the American Gothic pushes the boundaries of inheritance and blame, asking: how far would you go to keep your community safe?
A Zimbabwean girl meets boy. They cannot stand each other but fall hopelessly in love, before being traumatised into taking separate paths by their mutual prejudices.
Kamilah Cole Wicked Endeavors Atom, 5th May, £9.99, PB, 9780349125879
Set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, a vengeful teen cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her.
JJ Bola The Life and Times of Ota Benga
Dialogue Books, 19th March, £14.99, HB, 9780349702124
The new novel from Bola depicts the remarkable true story of Ota Benga, a Congolese man of small stature who was kidnapped and taken to the US to be exhibited with monkeys.
Yrsa Daley-Ward The Catch Merky Books, 7th October, £16.99, HB, 9781529923643
This stylishly intriguing and experimental debut novel explores family, fate and female fantasies.
Zuri Day
Champagne Taste on a Bad Boy Afterglow Books, 18th December, £9.99, PB, 9780263397642
Janisha Boswell Falling Sphere, 16th September, £10.99, PB, 9781408734780
A fake-dating college romance featuring a ice-hockey player.
Janisha Boswell Unravelling Sphere, 13th February, £9.99, PB, 9781408734803
An academic rivals-to-lovers romance with sizzling tension and forced proximity.
Jasmine Burke Quarter-Love Crisis Renegade Books, 17th July 2025, £9.99, PB, 9781408749692
When a struggling restaurateur hires a rule-breaking ex-con chef, clashing passions – and undeniable chemistry – ignite a high-stakes culinary comeback neither of them saw coming.
Sareeta Domingo Possibility Renegade Books, 23rd April, £9.99, PB, 9781408748756
When Anika Lapo wakes up in hospital on her 30th birthday, it is not dying she is afraid of: her real fear is how much of her life she has wasted. After a successful operation, she vows not to lose another second. A novel
Percival Everett Watershed Picador, 28th August, £10.99, PB, 9781035087044
A suspenseful, rediscovered classic from the twice Booker-shortlisted author in which a curious hydrologist stumbles into murder, espionage and Native American treaty disputes – uncovering dark government secrets in the Colorado wilderness.
William Rayfet Hunter Sunstruck Penguin, 21st May, £9.99, PB, 9781804948330
A dazzling and poignant exploration of race, status and the parts of ourselves we risk losing when we fall in love.
Marcia Hutchinson The Mercy Step Cassava Republic, 22nd July 2025, £16.99, HB, 9781913175740
A raw and tender debut novel informed by the author’s own experience as a child of Windrush generation parents.
Akwaeke Emezi Son of the Morning Renegade Books, 4th November, £16.99, HB, 9780349703725
A Southern Gothic paranormal romance of angels and demons, forbidden love, heavenly secrets and deadly desires.
Yvvette Edwards Good Good Loving Virago, 5th March, £22, HB, 9780349019697
The story of a multi-generational British-Caribbean family
Ayana Gray I, Medusa , 20th November, £18.99, HB, 9781785306822
A re-imagining of Medusa as a young Black woman cruel games played by the Olympian gods.
Danielle Knight A Rather Vengeful Accord
Titan Books, 18th November, £19.99, HB, 9781837840847
A rivals-to-lovers dark- academia fantasy. Karmen Lee
The Secret Crush Book Club Afterglow Books, 28th August, £9.99, PB, 9780263397567
A dedicated single mother and a librarian with a secret write their own love story in this small-town romcom.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Theft
Bloomsbury Publishing, 12th March, £9.99, PB, 9781526680143
A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming of age in postcolonial East Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Liv Little Bitter Melon Dialogue Books, 14th May, £14.99, HB, 9780349702988
In Little’s second novel, a father-daughter trip to Jamaica unearths buried secrets, old wounds and a journey toward truth, love and reclaiming identity.
Elle Machray Havisham HarperNorth, 15th January, £16.99, HB, 9780008560393
A feminist “untelling” of Dickens’ “most underestimated” literary heroine, Miss Havisham.
Nadine Matheson The Shadow Carver HQ, 26th February, £20, HB, 9780008548483
The fourth book in Matheson’s Inspector Henley thriller series.
ES McLeod Andromeda Penguin, 14th May, £16.99, HB, 9780857507655
A powerful reclaiming of the “most famed, white-washed woman” in Greek mythology.
Marvellous Michael Anson Firstborn of the Sun
Michael Joseph, 23rd October, £20, HB, 9780241705056
An epic fantasy debut inspired by the Yoruba myths.
Zora Neale Hurston The Life of Herod the Great
Tochi Eze This Kind of Trouble Merky Books, 8th July 2025, £16.99, HB, 9781529928747
An emotionally charged tale of forbidden love, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades ago.
Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo The Tiny Things Are Heavier
Manilla Press, 14th August, £16.99, HB, 9781786586940
A debut novel about a Nigerian immigrant as place at home and in America.
HQ, 15th January, £9.99, PB, 9780008732745
A never-before-published novel from Neale Hurston, which follows the historical Herod the Great – not the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure.
Shiko Nguru Soni and the Life Drinkers Lantana, 1st May, £8.99, PB, 9781836290285
The Intasimi Warriors must save their mentor in their toughest mission yet.
Moses Ose Utomi The Memory of the Ogisi Tor US, 7th August, £14.99, HB, 9781250849045
The epic conclusion to Utomi’s Forever Desert series.
Andi Osho Most Wanted HQ, 12th March, £9.99, PB, 9780008431013
From comedian and screenwriter Osho comes a multi-generational debut novel about three best friends who come up with a plan to solve their relationship woes once and for all.
Derek Owusu Borderline Fiction Canongate, 6th November, £18.99, HB, 9781838855710
Told through two parallel narratives – one past, one present – this title is a close-up examination of what it means to be a young Black man navigating today’s world.
Del Sandeen
This Cursed House Michael Joseph, 23rd October, £9.99, PB, 9781405969796
A young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans only to discover the dark truth: they are under a curse.
JL Seegars Restore Me DK, 6th January, £9.99, PB, 9781464267468
An enemies-to-lovers romance about love after loss.
Mai Sennaar
They Dream in Gold Picador, 17th July 2025, £9.99, PB, 9781035033713
An Afrobeat love story about a young Senegalese jazz musician and an aspiring African-American producer thrown together by chance, and destined to make music that will change the world.
Kuba Shand-Baptiste Soon Come Dialogue Books, 25th November, £20, HB, 9780349704975
This title explores and celebrates the nuances of the Windrush generation as they try to establish a home and family, revealing their struggles both within and beyond the community.
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