Fiction - Diverse Reads

Aiaigasa--1. (adverb) under one umbrella 2. (noun) a romantically shared umbrella.Here, under one umbrella, shared by author and illustrator, are p...

Princess, poet, pacifist ... and World War II spy. The enigmatic, indefinable Noor Inayat Khan was an unlikely recruit to the SOE as an undercover ...

"For years my life had been a string of temporary work in factories and call centres or unemployed. Approaching 30 and disillusioned with life in G...

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented ...

In this profile, Emma Donoghue tells the story of two eccentric Victorian spinsters: Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862...

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented ...

Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented...

Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hopeIcelight, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth...

In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her ...

Winner of a 2022 Palestine Book Award “Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with na...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for Best CollectionChoman Hardi’s Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigr...

High Desert is an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wil...

Using queer theory to untangle all types of nonnormative sexual identities, Tison Pugh uses Chaucer's work to expose the ongoing tension in the Mid...

"In The Waving Gallery, Mervyn Taylor continues his poetic journey through the paces of the human predicament. The poems explore the painful and fo...

"Few poets of the last thirty years have approached his diversity of formal innovations; few have communicated so intensively via performances and ...

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters ...

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ...