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Black Book Gift Guide – adults
Here are 28 suggestions to help you choose the ideal book whether for your sister, dad, best friend or neighbour.
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Black Book Gift Guide – Children
Books make great gifts. I think it’s particularly important to buy Black books for the children in our lives because they deserve to see children who look like them playing the lead role in stories. I've compiled 22 book suggestions you can use as a starting point.
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Remembering Sareeta Domingo
Sareeta was radiant, fiercely intelligent, and a creative juggernaut. She lifted Black creatives up in any way she could.
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Video review: Reasons to love Sonali Dev’s Bollywood series
A Bollywood Affair and The Bollywood Bride are the first two books in Sonali Dev's Bollywood series. They are two of my favourite romance novels, my go-to comfort reads, and brilliantly addictive. I could give a TED talk on why they should feature at the top of every Best Romance list.
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Video Review: Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Bethany has been rejected by both boys she invited to homecoming, and Jacob has been dumped by two of the hottest girls in school. All this and the fall semester has barely begun!
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Video Review: Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
After years of reckless spending the aristocratic Gresham family are facing bankruptcy. Rufus, a young, handsome future earl, is forced to choose between marrying for money or defying his mother and following his heart.
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Video Review: Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
Anyanwu's peaceful life is destroyed when Doro, an immortal spirit-being with great power, seeks her out and forces her into his ‘seed community’.
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Video review: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Zetian is a girl with nothing to lose. When she signs up to become a concubine pilot to infiltrate the army so she can avenge the death of her sister, it’s in the full knowledge that the decision will likely kill her. Sure enough, she lands on the front line of the bloody war against an alien invasion. Throughout the riveting novel she battles...
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Video Review: Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku
12 short stories about relationships make up this lively fiction collection. Cheating husbands, a mummy’s boy, an impotent husband, closeted men, life-long players – the stories analyse the various archetypes women are likely to encounter in the Lagos dating scene. I found the author’s wit and acerbic tone elevated this to pure gold!
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Video Review: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
For me, this dazzling novel was about the children of colonialism and the search for belonging.
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