![]() Why? Perhaps because you were not ready for an infinitely clever and spellbinding novel of such abiding magic, centred around an intoxicatingly joyful waif. You’ve walked past her book at your local independent. The novel from the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner, Susanna Clarke. Sweetness, innocence and a love for his world. Coates won the National Book Award in the U.S. The Financial Times described it as ‘brutal and lyrical, elegant and searing’ the New Yorker called it ‘extraordinary’. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed this essay to the author’s adolescent son about the feelings, symbolism and realities associated with being Black in the United States. Once you lock on to his words, it is hard to break eye contact.’Ģ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates ![]() The poet Benjamin Zephaniah said about it: ‘Derek Owusu’s writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough. This book, the first novel to be published by Merky Books (Stormzy’s publishing imprint with Penguin), won the Desmond Elliott prize in 2020. That Reminds Me is very topical-race, mental health, all of it-it covers a lot in terms of the British black experience. If you have time to read only two books in 2022, choose from these, presented to you by ![]()
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