How Beautiful We Were
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Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people...
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Shrines of Gaiety
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1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a...
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River Sing Me Home
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We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to...
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Amiable With Big Teeth
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A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer...
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Crossings
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Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut--a novel in three parts, designed to...
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Kololo Hill
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When you’re left with nothing but your secrets, how do you start again? Uganda 1972 A...
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China Room
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Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, the breathtaking story of a woman and a man in pursuit of...
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Lessons
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While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has...
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Learwife
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‘I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck...
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Fire Rush
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This is our dancing time. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends...
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