Empire Of Pain had me completely hooked from the beginning. Although I have a healthy dose of cynicism running through me at this point, it is still astounding to realise what people are willing to do to maintain power and…
The Sex Lives Of African Women is a book I’ve been meaning to pick up for a very long time…I can’t lie, I was holding out a bit to see if I could somehow get the US cover but I…
Things I Have Witheld by Kei Miller Sometimes while reading this book, I did find myself in awe. I have been impressed with Kei Miller’s writing before but Things I have Witheld is a completely different avenue from his fiction.…
The Cost Of Living By Deborah Levy is a book I’ve been meaning to read for a while. Can’t lie, the cover was a big part of that. Very partial to some yellow. Shameful. Also, I tend to be interested…
It’s Not About The Burqa was a collection I read earlier this year and found it to be a highlight straight away. Reading and listening to Muslim women speak passionately about their own experiences, on their own terms was beautiful,…
We still can’t go anywhere! Just reminiscing on a day in December when I went to see the Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition at Tate Britain. It was gorgeous, I can’t remember having felt taken like that in a gallery in years.…
It was interesting to read this in retrospect, No Is Not Enough was written in 2017, not long into Trump’s first term Naomi Klein splits the book into sections. It looks at the role Trump’s malicious superbranding played in his…
At the heart of The Louder I Will Sing, I saw a boy- and then a man- who loved his mum with everything. With that love driving him, Lee Lawrence was determined not to let Cherry Groce’s legacy be reduced…
Terraformed: Young Black Lives In The Inner City by Joy White was a book I first noted when considering new books by Black British writers to look out for over summer. This book in particular because while there are countless…