and fight outdated patri- archal ideals by a young activist with more than nine million followers.


Janet Alder with Dan Glazebrook Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister’s Fight for the Truth Dialogue, 17th Oct, £22, hb, 9780349702858 The police killing of Christopher Alder was one of the most notorious deaths in custody in the UK. This book will be both a probing exposé of what went on, based on exhaustive documentary evidence, as well as the personal story of Janet’s fight to uncover the truth.


Jason Allen-Paisant The Possibility of Tenderness Cornerstone, 6th Feb, £18.99, hb, 9781529153620 This book detangles the question of what is nature, and who gets to own it in a Venn diagram of race, class, leisure, history, and time.


David and Yinka Olusoga, Kemi Olusoga (illus) Black History for Every Day of the Year Macmillan, 12th Sep, £25, hb, 9781529066203 With an entry for each day of the year, this is a celebration of Black history.


The story of feminism told through 100 beloved romcoms, each one shining a spotlight on topics from body positivity to workplace equality.


history examining the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics.


Samatar Elmi The Epic of Cader Idris Bloomsbury Poetry, 10th Oct, £9.99, pb, 9781526675200 This début collection interweaves hip hop beats with the mythology of the British Isles.


Dr Ike Anya Small by Small: A Nigerian Doctor’s Story Canongate, 1st Aug, £10.99, pb, 9781837262397 A memoir that provides a window via one man’s medical training into ordi- nary Nigerian lives at a time of political turmoil.


Dean Atta Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black, Queer Body Canongate, 4th July, £14.99, hb, 9781838855659 Atta’s non-fiction début is an intimate medita- tion on bodies, age and self-acceptance.


Marchelle Farrell Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden Canongate, 1st Aug, £10.99, pb, 9781838858704 Winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize, this lyrical book moves between Trinidad and an idyllic English country garden as it grapples with big questions about what we call home.


of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration.


Joy Harden Bradford Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community Cornerstone, 27th June, £10.99, pb, 9781529118995 Dr Bradford, founder of Therapy for Black Girls, helps readers harness sisterhood and community to heal relationships and themselves.


successful footballing career to his reinvention as one of Britain’s best- loved broadcasters.


Vanessa Kisuule Neverland: The pleasures and perils of fandom Canongate, 12th Sep, £16.99, hb, 9781838857073 The début work of non- fiction by award-winning slam poet Kisuule, this is a love letter to the musicians we adore and an unflinching look at the costs of hero worship.


Dija Ayodele


Sian Anderson Sian’s Kitchen: Caribbean Comfort Cooking Carnival, 22nd Aug, £22, hb, 9780711292543 A collection of comforting dishes with Caribbean flair from BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ, TV presenter and restaurateur Anderson.


Raymond Antrobus Signs, Music Picador, 12th Sep, £10.99, pb, 9781035020850 A new collection from T S Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet about about masculinity and fatherhood.


Corrina Antrobus, Vulga Drawings (illus) I Love Romcoms and I Am a Feminist White Lion Publishing, 29th Aug, £16.99, hb, 9780711290709


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Black Skin: The Definitive Skincare Guide HQ, 7th Nov, £20, pb, 9780008639815 The “ultimate” skincare guide for Black women, Ayodele takes readers through the lifetime of skin, sharing transforma- tive essentials from how to work out your skin type to the dos and don’ts for your everyday routine.


Joshua Bennett


The Study of Human Life Bloomsbury Poetry, 20th June, £9.99, pb, 9781526664532 A speculative fiction poetry collection and novella that addresses issues as varied as aboli- tion, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood.


Edna Bonhomme A History of the World in Six Plagues Dialogue, 13th Mar, £25, hb, 9780349704364 A new social and scientific


Rhiane Fatinikun Finding Your Feet: The how-to-guide to hiking and adventuring Bloomsbury, Conway, 4th July, £22, pb, 9781844866878 An essential ‘how to’ guide for exploring the British countryside from the founder of Black Girls Hike, dispelling myths, offering sound advice and giving readers the self-confi- dence to get outdoors.


Robin Givhan Make It Ours Cornerstone, 1st Apr, £20, hb, 9781529153439 A sweeping story of race, culture and fashion in which Givhan uses the remarkable life and career of Virgil Abloh to tell the broader story of how Black American culture collided with the grand old bastions of high luxury to democratise fashion, create a new global vernacular for taste, and transform the way each of us constructs our identity through what we wear.


Salena Godden With Love, Grief and Fury Canongate, 8th May, £10.99, pb, 9781837260522 A poetry collection full


Prentis Hemphill What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World Cornerstone, 25th July, £18.99, hb, 9781529935639 In this “framework for the way forward”, Hemphill shows us how to develop the interpersonal skills necessary to break down the doors of disconnection and take the necessary risks to reshape our world towards justice.


bell hooks


Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood Dialogue, 19th Sep, £10.99, pb, 9780349704968 In this memoir of percep- tions and ideas, feminist intellectual hooks presents an intimate account of growing up in the American South.


Katarina Johnson-Thompson Unbroken Macmillan, 14th Nov, £22, hb, 9781035055173 A memoir-manifesto from two-time world heptathlon champion and British Olympian Johnson-Thompson.


Anthony Joseph Precious & Impossible: Selected Poems Bloomsbury, 25th Sep, £9.99, pb, 9781526651211 Featuring exclusive new work, this title gathers together more than three decades of poetry.


Chris Kamara Kammy Pan, 4th July, £10.99, pb, 9781035023851 The revelatory story of Kamara, from his


Layal Liverpool Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Ill Bloomsbury Publishing, 6th June, £22, hb, 9781526652157 A blistering, ground- breaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine —leading to worse treat- ment for everyone.


Joycelyn Longdon A Rooted World Vintage, 17th Apr, £18.99, hb, 9781529902662 Inspired by folklore and philosophy from the Global South, with emphasis on Indigenous and Native communities, this is a new vision for climate action built on how our actions can be sustainable and nurturing.


democracy by a renowned essayist and critic.


Diana McCaulay A House for Miss Pauline Dialogue, 27th Feb, £16.99, hb, 9780349704272 A compelling novel about identity and legacy.


Shane McCrae Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Canongate, 12th Sep, £10.99, pb, 9781838854225 A memoir of a mixed- race child kidnapped and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.


Sir Trevor McDonald Sir Trevor on Cricket Renegade, 17th Oct, £20, hb, 9780349705064 A memoir on cricket by national treasure McDonald exploring his childhood in the Caribbean and his love of cricket.


Bernice McFadden First Born Girls Vintage, 6th Mar, £18.99, hb, 9781784744427 A memoir about becom- ing a writer, entwined with generations of women whose lives illuminate a century of Black American history.


Thandi Lubimbi Race and Entertainment: Reflections on Racism in Film, TV and the Media Verve, 24th Oct, £12.99, pb, 9780857305664 A reflection on the portrayal of Black people in all forms of media throughout history.


Nicolas Lunabba Will You Care If I Die? Picador, 27th Feb, £9.99, pb, 9781035022595 An uplifting memoir about race, class, friendship, love and what it means to care for one another in an uncaring world.


Adewale Maja-Pearce This Fiction Called Nigeria Verso, 8th Oct, £16.99, pb, 9781804291801 An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of


Tressie McMillan Cottom Basic Cornerstone, 3rd April, £16.99, hb, 9781529152272 A thought-provoking series of essays that exposes and explores all the places where whiteness is forged and asserted into dominance in American life.


Marlon Lee Moncrieffe New Black Cyclones: Racism, Representation and Revolutions of Power in Cycling Bloomsbury Sport, 10th Oct, £18.99, hb, 9781399405560 An exploration of racism in the world of profes- sional cycling.


Rebecca Moore Radical Self-Care: Rituals for Inner Resilience Leaping Hare Press, 11th July, £15, hb, 9780711294219


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