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Buchtipps - Black British literature

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter.

A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that’s on the brink of collapse? “Beautiful, gripping, and tender . . . a powerful and unforgettable meditation on love, belonging, and motherhood.”—Emilia Hart, author of Weyward

It's hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won't leave you alone... Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries not to be sassy, to answer back, to be noticed. Because when Stella’s father is angry, it’s like lightning and thunder and hailstones.

In diesem Roman zeigt Bernardine Evaristo einmal mehr, warum sie zu den wichtigsten Stimmen der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur zählt. Ihr unverwechselbarer Schreibstil, ihr trockener Humor, ihr scharfsinniger Blick auf das Zusammenspiel zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen und gesellschaftlicher Ansprüche - all das verbindet sich in Mr. Loverman zu einem unvergleichlichen Streifzug durch die Caribbean Community in England. Barrington Jedidiah Walker, geboren und aufgewachsen in Antigua, liebt seine Retro-Anzüge und hat zu jeder Gelegenheit das passende Shakespeare-Zitat parat.

Picked for The Times biggest books for Autumn 2022 Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told. discover Georgian London as you've never seen it before. I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more...

Yinka wants to find love. Her mum wants to find it for her. She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, a preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum she's sure is far too small as a result. Oh, and the fact that she's a thirty-one-year-old South-Londoner who doesn't believe in sex before marriage is a bit of an obstacle too...

Cyril Pennington ist das, was man als »People Person« bezeichnet: gesellig, umtriebig, extrovertiert. Was er vor allem nicht ist: ein Vater. Und das obwohl er fünf Kinder von vier verschiedenen Frauen hat. Seine Kinder wachsen ohne ihren Dad auf und ohne einander wirklich zu kennen. Bis ein dramatisches Ereignis die Halbgeschwister zusammenbringt und sie stärker aneinanderbindet, als ihnen lieb ist.  ***** IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY… YOU WOULDN’T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS.

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.

Queenie ist ein Naturtalent darin, sich Ärger einzuhandeln. Zum Beispiel in der Zeitungsredaktion, wo sie die Zeit vertrödelt, anstatt endlich über die Themen zu schreiben, die ihr wichtig sind: #BlackLivesMatter, #Feminismus, seelische Gesundheit. Oder mit ihrem braven weißen Boyfriend, der sie nicht gegen seinen (»Er hat’s nicht so gemeint«) rassistischen Onkel verteidigt.

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010 'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast