Black Historical Fiction

Updated January 30, 2025
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The conductors
Glover, Nicole
Paper Book
FILM RIGHTS NOW OPTIONED BY QUEEN LATIFAH _________________________________ 'An Underground Railroad - but with magic' P. Djeli Clark '...a delightfully genre-bending debut' Tananarive Due_________________________________...
Conjure women : a novel
Atakora, Afia
Paper Book
A Stylist Best Book of 2020 You're free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past? A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and Sara Collins' The Confessions of Frannie Langton The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a...
The final revival of Opal & Nev : a novel
Walton, Dawnie
Paper Book
The fraud
Smith, Zadie
Paper Book
Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily Express SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF...
Harlem shuffle
Whitehead, Colson
Paper Book
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show) 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times '<...
Libertie : a novel
Greenidge, Kaitlyn
Paper Book
From the critically acclaimed and Whiting Award-winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman comes a book about what freedom actually means - and where to find it.
A master of djinn
Clark, P. Dje?li?
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 'Clever, wickedly fun . . . with an excellent balance of humour and heart. I loved it' S. A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass ...
The old drift : a novel
Serpell, Namwali
Paper Book
**Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020** 'The great African novel of the twenty-first century' Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial...
River sing me home
Shearer, Eleanor
Paper Book
Take my hand
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Paper Book
The unsettled
Mathis, Ayana
Paper Book
'[A] powerful book' Marilynne Robinson 'A book to be read and re-read' Jesmyn Ward 'Poetic and fierce' Yiyun Li From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia in 1985, Ava is already...
Wild women and the blues
Bryce, Denny S.
Paper Book

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