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Carnival, 18th December, £25, HB, 9781836009610
This cookbook and eating of an unprocessed diet.
Lisa Smith Jamaica Road Dialogue Books, 12th June 2026, £18.99, HB, 9780349703572
A transformative love story about two best friends who fall for each other, fall apart and try together in their tight-knit British-Jamaican community.
Rivers Solomon Model Home Merky Books, 2nd March, £9.99, PB, 9781529901702
Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas. The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long-since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years.
Alayo Akinkugbe Reframing Blackness Merky Books, 7th October, £20, HB, 9781529186406
An original and wide-ranging riposte to the current understanding of Blackness in Western art and museums, from an upcoming curator and founder of @ablackhistoryofart.
Alayo Akinkugbe Reframing Blackness Merky Books, 21st May, £12.99, PB, 9781529186420
The paperback of Akinkugbe’s exploration of Blackness in Western art.
schools can transform the lives of the children who need their help the most.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions about Everything under the Sun, Moon and Stars
Blink, 21st October, £16.99, HB, 9781785307669
Hazel V Carby Racial Fictions Verso, 5th Novemver, £22, PB, 9781804299937
Byron Athene Find Your Path to Resilience
Leaping Hare Press, 18th December,£7.99, PB, 9781836006978
A compassionate, mindful guide to building inner strength.
Jesse Bernard Escaping Babylon: An Intimate History of Black British Music
, 5th July 2026, £22, HB, 9781788169356
This title outlines how the Black diaspora in Britain reshaped music and
Janet Alder Police Brutality, a Sister’s Fight for the Truth
Dialogue Books, 16th October, £9.99, PB, 9780349702865
Paula Sutton The Body in the Kitchen Garden
Renegade Books, 10th July 2025, £16.99, HB, 9780349703794
The next cosy, quirky and twist-packed instalment in Sutton’s cottagecore murder-mystery series.
Chika Unigwe Grace Canongate, 15th January, £16.99, HB, 9781837261918
A stirring novel about meaning for yourself and that you love.
Vanessa Walters Black Excellence Hutchinson Heinemann, 28th May, £16.99, HB, 9781529155396
The second novel from the author of The Lagos Wife.
Charmaine Wilkerson Good Dirt Michael Joseph, 5th March, £9.99, PB, 9781405950107
A tale about love, family and seeking a new life in the aftermath of tragedy.
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From the sister of Christopher Alder, a Black man who was unlawfully killed while in police custody, comes a damning account of injustice in the UK police system.
Caroline Bird, Rachel Long Something New: Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings
Picador, 3rd July 2025, £16.99, HB, 9781035069170
An anthology of 100 fresh and unconventional poems for weddings.
Philip Brookman, Deborah Willis Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985
Yale University Press, 6th August, £50, HB, 9780300283501
Featuring more than 100 artists, this landmark book charts the intricate connections between photography and the Black Arts Movement.
Jason Allen-Paisant The Possibility of Tenderness
Penguin, 22nd January, £10.99, PB, 9781804944950
award-winning poet Allen-Paisant is a memoir that roams Jamaican hills and the woodlands of Leeds.
Symeon Brown The Good, the Black and the Bougie: The Story of Britain’s New Black Middle Class
Dialogue Books, 15th September, £18.99, HB, 9780349702490 A memoir-led
the Black elite and the new, emerging Black middle class.
Gemma Cairney The Immortal Sisterhood: A Beautiful Entanglement of Women Past, Present and Future
Canongate, 5th September, £16.99, HB, 9781838851293
Jaz Ampaw-Farr Because of You, This Is Me Crown House, 30th June, £16.99, PB, 9781781352984
Ampaw-Farr shares her story, showing how the everyday heroes in our
Broadcaster and writer Cairney explores the collective power and wisdom found in the lives of 12 remarkable women, from Grace Jones and Mary Wollstonecraft to Pharaoh Hatshepsut and Wang Zhenyi.
Ellen Daugherty, Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins, Julie L McGee, Kevin Sharp Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11
Yale University Press, 8th October, £35, HB, 9780300283563
Black Artists in America series, featuring work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the 21st century.
Stephen Curry Shot Ready Macmillan, 11th September, £35, HB, 9781035012596
A memoir encapsulating Curry’s philosophies and strategies for life, work, basketball and the nature of high performance and success.
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Ritual, Tradition and Sankofa in the Bedroom
Dialogue Books, 5th March, £18.99, HB, 9780349703411
Part-memoir, part- workbook, this new book intends to help to sexual freedom.
Padma Viswanathan (trans) Where We Stand
Yale University Press, 13th January, £12.99, PB, 9780300285550
Ribeiro explores Black feminist thought and how social position shapes voice, visibility and gender justice.
Aindrea Emelife Black Venus: Reclaiming the Gaze Thames & Hudson, January, £35, HB, 9780500026755
Emelife turns the art canon on its head, tackling crucial issues of race, gender and representation – with contemporary pop culture and music references to engage a younger audience.
Matt Hutchinson Are You Really the Doctor?: My Life as a Black Doctor in the NHS
Blink, 4th September, £22, HB, 9781785121340 A compelling
memoir about race and medicine on the NHS frontline.
William J Barber White Poverty WW Norton, 19th September, £13.99, PB, 9781324096757
Nina Cherie Franklin The Build Your Bowl Salad Cookbook
This title confronts myths about poverty in America and proposes a unifying “moral fusion movement” for change.
Ashley Clark The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films
Laurence King, 12th February, £35, HB, 9781529438253
A thought-provoking survey of important and around the world.
A powerful critique of the myths that continue to shape our world.
Another guided tour of the universe from deGrasse Tyson – answering quirky, cosmic questions with wit and wonder.
Howard W French The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide WW Norton, 9th September, £29.99, HB, 9781324092452
Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue, Jacob Tatsitsa The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa
Verso, 9th July 2025, £16.99, PB, 9781788733762
The shocking history of France’s secret war in Cameroon and its neocolonial afterlives.
Prentis Hemphill What It Takes to Heal Penguin, 24th July 2025, £10.99, PB, 9781804950845
A new approach to healing at both personal and collective levels from a leading voice in trauma work.
Fasicka Hicks, Metasebia Afework, Shan Wong
The Ethiopian Kitchen Rock Point, 25th June 2026, £23, Board, 9781577154433
a gastronomic journey through Ethiopia’s rich culinary landscape.
French recasts African liberation and the American civil rights movement through the leadership of Ghana Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.
Fair Winds Press, 31st July 2025, £18.99, PB, 9780760396773
75 recipes for balanced and nutrient-dense salad bowls.
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