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Booker Prize 2023 - If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

What are you? That’s the question you are asked by everyone from a young age. Because to a society that is built on a clear hierarchy of...

Love by Toni Morrison

May, Christine, Heed, Junior and L – five women bound together by their obsession with one man. Bill Cosey was the owner of the famous...

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

L’Isle des Cheavliers is a tropical paradise where the rich American candy manufacturer Valerian Street has chosen to retire with his...

Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan

Moll Gladney is a quiet girl, not known to cause troubles to her devout and hardworking parents. But one night she disappears from her...

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...

Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...

Fiction and Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Poetic and heart-breaking. Those are the first words that come to mind when I think about Toni Morrison’s masterpiece Beloved. I only...

James Baldwin - Essays

I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

After loving Half of a Yellow Sun, I was eager to read more of this wonderful, intelligent woman who made me fall in love with Nigeria...

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