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'Tutu' is a celebration of the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an icon whose humanity and compassion have touched the lives of millions around the world. This book features a biography by South African journalist Allister Sparks, authorised by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and includes over 40 interviews conducted by Tutu's daughter. |
'Sultana' is a member of the Saudi Royal Family, closely related to the King. As she tells of her life, she lifts the veil and reveals a history of appalling oppression and shocking human rights violations such as forced marriages, sex slavery and summary executions.
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An account of the slave trade by a native African, former slave, and loyal British subject, this book is both an exciting, often terrifying, adventure story and an important precursor to such famous slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's memoir. |
The evocative photographs that have been selected for this book trace the relationship of London to her black citizens over the last 100 years, chronicling the working lives of ordinary members of the black community. This edition contains over 40 new entries, as well as updated entries. |
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At one time during the first half of the 20th century, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. In August 1920, he masterminded the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World. This book tells his story.
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In her new top ten bestseller Jasvinder Sanghera tells the harrowing and moving stories of women trapped in forced marriages. |
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Corinne Hofmann fell in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moved into a tiny shack with him and his mother, and spent four years there. Slowly the dream crumbled, and she fled back home with her baby daughter. This is her story. |
A TV tie-in with Lorraine Pascale, the model baker. Supermodel turned patisserie chef Lorraine Pascale is the BBC's new home baking heroine. In this gorgeous new cookbook to accompany the series, Lorraine shares her expertise, passion and her all time favourite sweet and savoury recipes.
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'The Obama Syndrome' asks what has really changed since Bush left the White House? Very little, argues Tariq Ali, apart from the mood music. |
Based on the popular TV series, this unique compilation of places, spaces and flavours combines chef Justin Bonello's three favourite things - Southern Africa, food and friends.
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A collection of biographies featuring historical black leaders, Beacons of Liberation was first published in 1995. This new edition has been extended to include Mary Prince, Robert Wedderburn and Ira Aldridge, three key figures in the abolitionist movement. |
This illustrated cookbook is a compilation of recipes dear to South Africans from all walks of life and traditions. Lehla Eldridge has captured various landmarks - both formal and informal - around South Africa to accompany these local recipes that she has garnered from cooks around the country.
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This book contains over 140 recipes for Caribbean favourites such as rice and peas, ackee and salt fish, jerk chicken and traditional journey cakes. |
With more than 300 historical and contemporary recipes, gathered from throughout the Caribbean, this book provides clear and easy-to-follow instructions to some of the culinary delights of this vibrant region.
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TV's dragon slayer Levi Roots brings carnival to the kitchen with his hot'n'spicy debut cookbook. After winning over the business minds of The Dragon's Den with little more than a song and a smile, entrepreneur Levi Roots has since sold more than one million bottles of his delicious Reggae Reggae Sauce. |
In the BBC2 programme, 'Caribbean Food Made Easy', Levi Roots travels around the UK and the Caribbean and reveals how delicious Caribbean food can be prepared at home with easy-to-prepare, mouth-watering recipes using fresh, healthy and readily-available ingredients.
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The definitive Jamaican cookbook with authentic jerk recipes. |
African superstar, composer, singer and musician - as well as mystic and political activist - Fela Kuti was controversy personified. Carlos Moore's unique biography reveals the icon's complex personality and his tumultuous existence. |
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A collection of 100 recipes, this cookbook plunders the spice cupboard to create dishes which utilise everyday ingredients. It includes recipes such as adding a tamarind and orange glaze to lamb chops, making a lime jerk marinade for chicken, cooking salmon with chilli and dishing up a spiced tropical fruit pilaf.
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The greatest scholar–athlete–performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century.
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Discover the secrets of how to achieve and maintain beautiful healthy Afro hair and learn the proper techniques and methods to make you look and feel your best. |
From the shaky beginnings and turbulent times with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, through to worldwide success as the new queen of R&B, this is a biography of Rihanna, the singer who is to her fans 'The Only Girl in the World'.
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Tupac Shakur is not just a posthumous hip-hop icon. In the years since his murder, he has attained a status that led some to coin him 'the Black Elvis'. 'A Thug Life' explores every aspect of Tupac's life and career.
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This is the intimate, first-person chronicle of the life and work of Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter in Brooklyn's notorious Marcy Projects, now known to many as the greatest rapper alive. Told through lyrics, images and personal narrative, 'Decoded' shares the story of Jay-Z's life through the ten codes that define him.
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No-holds-barred account of one of Britain's most gifted and creative musical talents.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson is known and revered as the world's first dub poet. Born in Chapelton, a small town in the parish of Clarendon, Jamaica, he came to England in 1963. He gained a sociology degree in the mid-1970s from Goldsmiths' College, London, and had poems, inspired by politics and the Black movement, published in the journal Race Today.
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A Major new collection by the Anglo-Caribbean T.S. Eliot shortlisted poet. A collection in three parts, Continental Shelf shows off the full range and technical accomplishment of its author's craft.
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Jasvinder Sanghera, international bestselling author of SHAME, describes her life-changing journey to the rural Punjabi village of Kang Sabu - the village where her parents grew up. |
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Dinner with Mugabe: the untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant |
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This portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psycho-biography of a man whose once-brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. The author's investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe, the freedom fighter, and ends in a searching interview with him more than 30 years later. |
The stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society: Francis Barber, who was 'given' to Samuel Johnson, Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, and David Oluwale, whose death at the hands of the police in 1969 was a wake-up call to the nation.
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'An Image of Africa' asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' whose novel 'Heart of Darkness' perpetuates damaging stereotypes of black people. In 'The Trouble With Nigeria', Achebe delivers a searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country.
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Nelson Mandela has been mythologised as a flawless hero of the liberation struggle. But how exactly did his early life shape the triumphs to come? This book goes behind the myth to find the man who people have forgotten or never knew. |
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Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. |
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Booklist - Fiction ...or jump to the: Booklist - Non Fiction >
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Headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu is worshipped by six villages, but finds his authority under threat. He is prepared to do anything to lead his people, even if it means destruction and annihilation. |
Oki Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. |
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'Things Fall Apart' tells the story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first on the scene. |
One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram arrives for Maya Haque. Eight years before, a devastating war tore Maya's country - and her family - apart. Now Maya realises it is time to return home at last. She arrives to find that everything has changed. |
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Naser is a young African immigrant who works the carwash in downtown Jeddah. The long, hot summer has arrived and his friends have left the city. Naser spends his time off sitting beneath the palm tree outside his flat, dreaming of Egyptian actresses, and keeping out of the way of the religious police. |
As her teenage son's disappearance becomes real, Idora Morrison withdraws to her rented basement apartment. For four days and nights she faces the demons of memory, pain and disappointment that have haunted her life as a Caribbean immigrant in Toronto. |
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Tonight is Thanksgiving in America, and customers are queueing up to complain about white goods going wrong. On this night of a thousand phonecalls, when life couldn't look more dismal, one unique caller gets on the line. And that call is going to change everything. |
Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the depression. |
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A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement. |
Diana Evans is the new literary voice of multicultural Britain. Wickedly funny and devastatingly moving, it is an extraordinary first novel. Part fairytale, part nightmare, it moves from the mundane to the magical, the particular to the universal with exceptional flair and imagination. |
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In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but she has been beaten and abused. She is held in the local prison, awaiting interrogation for the murders she is believed by the local people to have committed. |
In 1950s Bengal, Henna Rub pulls off a brilliant marriage to a wealthy romantic, Ricky Karim, trapping him with a web of lies. So on his wedding night, believing himself married to an educated, sonnet-reading soul mate, Ricky is horrified to discover that his bride is in fact a lazy, illiterate, shopkeeper's daughter. |
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14 year-old Lucky Khalil is passionate about three things: football, Star Wars and Portia, the girl who works in his grandfather's shop. While Lucky pursues his girl and his dreams of scoring for England, his mother dreams about rediscovering the freedom of her youth. Do they risk losing sight of what's really important?
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Set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversary celebrations The Life and Soul of the Party is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we've all spent in the kitchen at parties. |
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Bestselling chick-lit author returns to his roots with this hilarious, touching novel about three clueless, charming brothers and the women in their lives. |
When Shagun leaves Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their two young children is thrown into question and Shagun must decide what price she will pay for freedom. Meanwhile, Ishita, a failed marriage behind her, finds another chance at happiness with Raman. |
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Joss Moody has died and the jazz world is in mourning. But in death, Joss can no longer guard the secret he kept all his life, and Colman, his son, must confront the truth: the man he believed to be his father was, in fact, a woman. |
In this collection of stories, Jackie Kay explores every aspect of love - the most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions, exposing the moments of tenderness, shock, bravery and remorse that accompany its pursuit, its passions, its passing. |
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Marshmallows for Breakfast is a tale of hope, forgiveness and of finding love in unexpected places. |
Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job and the perfect flatshare. Neither are that perfect. Furious when her parents retire to Jamaica, she makes her own journey there. Here she is enfolded in her Aunt Coral's endless talk of ancestors, stretching back to Cuba, Panama, Harlem and Scotland. |
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What would you do for the friend who broke your heart? Best friends Kamryn and Adele thought nothing could come between them, until Adele slept with Kamryn's fiance, Nate. Worse still, she got pregnant and had his child. When Kamryn discovered the truth about their betrayal she vowed never to see any of them again. |
A scrumptiously funny and moving tale of love, lust and confectionery. Who needs love when you've got chocolate? |
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Libby has a good life with a gorgeous husband and a home by the sea. But over time she is becoming more unsure if Jack has ever loved her - and if he is over the death of Eve, his first wife. |
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 30s. |
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Never far from somewhere is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a council estate. |
Glamour, money, friends and admirers - the golden couple of Delhi, Neha and Sharat Chaturvedi, have it all. And as Sharat prepares to make his long-awaited political debut with his devoted wife beside him, life couldn't get much better. But they stand to lose everything when a secret from Neha's past materialises.
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This novel traces the fortunes of a group of anarchists in revolt against a military-fascist capitalist opposition.
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The Secret History meets Daddy's Girls as four old school friends reunite after fifteen years in this sizzling blockbuster. |
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When Marina sets eyes on gorgeous hotel owner Thomas Harding, she knows her search for a rich and handsome man is at an end. But, how can a loud-mouthed Indian girl from the wrong side of the tracks hope to capture his heart?
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Be careful what you wish for. Fifteen years ago, Riva Singh and Aman Khan had a passionate love affair. Despite their attraction, Riva rejected Aman for reliable Ben, the man who became her husband. Now, Riva is a bestselling London novelist, whilst Aman is a Bollywood superstar. Both have watched each other from afar but have stayed apart since their painful split. But Fate appears to have other plans for them as they are thrown together at the Cannes film festival. |
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A magical mixture of East meets West, and mothers in conflict with daughters - for anyone who enjoyed `Bend it like Beckham' but prefers food to football.
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Azario is a spirit child who is born to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is a beautifully written and moving novel combining fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the here-and-now, which conveys the Nigerian peasant life in the changing world. |
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What makes a marriage? Is it the end of fairytale romance? It might be if your husband is the writer Mr Fox, who does devilish things to the heroines of his stories. His wife is unable to change his ways, but when his imaginary muse conjures herself one sunny afternoon and confronts him, things take an unexpected turn. |
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a woman singing - in a voice both eerie and enthralling - at their farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja herself is a singer, pregnant and haunted by what she calls 'her Cuba' . |
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Dorothy has taken early retirement and walked away from a bad marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. She moves to a small English village where she soon learns that England itself is changing beyond measure as the world outside its borders encroaches and intrudes. |
'Cambridge' is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England and struggling to maintain his dignity.
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Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. |
India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined.
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Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy as his life draws to a close. |
When ambitious City analyst Yasmin Yusuf's hope for a traditional 'happy ever after' in the romance stakes is shattered she decides there's only one course of action: get smart, sexy and successful. And what better way to achieve it than by turning around a failing lingerie company.
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Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel the first ravages of age, she wants to find a sense of meaning in her life. She sets out on a journey down the Colorado river - a journey that will force her to re-explore her past and future.
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