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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Zakiya Dalila Harris
Dark, funny and furiously entertaining, The Other Black Girl will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last twist.
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Jason Mott
An astounding work of fiction - resoundingly powerful, endlessly quotable and funny as hell - with its sights set on getting to the heart of racism in America.
Nathan Harris
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a powerful American debut portraying life after slavery in the vein of WASHINGTON BLACK
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Leila Mottley
A searing debut novel inspired by a true story from the streets of Oakland, California, announcing the arrival of a blazing, young talent.
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Percival Everett
Dr. No is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel from one of America's most inventive, provocative and productive writers.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The hotly anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black
Gayl Jones
An epic tale of love and liberation set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil. This acclaimed novel is the first book in over 20 years from a major voice in American literature.
Colson Whitehead
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
A searing novel, a powerful call for collectivism, and one of the biggest American debuts of 2021.
Provocative, fast-paced and morbidly funny, The Trees is an urgent novel of lasting importance, from an author with a finger on America’ s pulse.
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Jonathan Escoffery
A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew.
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Deesha Philyaw
An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going Black women, soon to be an HBO TV series.
Tara M Stringfellow
A spellbinding ode to Memphis, as well as a celebration of the strength and defiance of three generations of a Southern black family who live there.
Robert Jones Jr.
Love, in all its permutations, is the discovery at the heart of Robert Jones Jr’s breathtaking debut, The Prophets.
Kiley Reid
Such a Fun Age explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships, the complicated reality of being a grown-up and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
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Brandon Taylor
A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life.
N. K. Jemisin
Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new series.
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James McBride
Deacon King Kong is a book about a community under threat, about the ways people pull together in an age when the old rules are being rewritten.
An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction 2020.
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Brit Bennett
A powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white.
Elizabeth Acevedo
The stunning new novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of THE POET X.
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Angie Thomas
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping novel about one girl’s struggle for justice.
Ralph Ellison
The story of a man invisible ‘simply because people refuse to see me’.
Alice Walker
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with a new introductory letter from Alice Walker.
Tayari Jones
A masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward - with hope and pain - into the future.
A magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Jesmyn Ward
An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.
A devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.
Friday Black will appeal to people looking for stories that speak to the world we live in now.
Yaa Gyasi
Two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader’s wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler’s masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Toni Morrison
A stunning gift package of prize-winning Beloved to commemorate Toni Morrison.
