The Mermaid of Black Conch
In The Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey takes up the mermaid myth, sets the story in a small Caribbean fishing village, and negotiates not only colonial contexts but also centuries-old patriarchal traditions.
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The Yield
August Gondiwindi has been washing dishes in miserable grey London for ten years, when the death of her grandfather Albert causes her to journey home to Massacre Plains in Australia. Thus begins the story told by Tara June Winch in The Yield: a book both very beautiful and very sad.
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Our missing hearts
Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts takes readers into the near future of the USA. A world of oppression is countered by a certain gentleness, warmth and creativity.
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Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte
Unrast Verlag published Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte, a collection of contributions by Black feminists under the editorship of Natasha A. Kelly, in 2019. The book traces the development of the concept of intersectionality, which has increasingly become the focus of feminist debates in Germany in recent years.
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Could this be love?
Could this be love? is a bilingual anthology – all contributions are included in English and German – with personal essays on interracial relationships. It is one of the first books to be published by the newly founded InterKontinental Verlag.
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In the end, it was all about love.
Musa Okwonga’s book is a captivating journey in three parts. Let the narrator take you with him for a spell; you won’t regret it.
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Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq, an Indigenous Canadian, is a multi-award-winning throat singer and experimental musician. She grew up in Ikaluktutiak, Nunavut and published her first and to date only book Split Tooth in 2018.
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The God Child
Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s prose in her debut novel The God Child feels like poetry: vivid, associative, beautiful – and sometimes a little confusing. The story navigates between Ghana, Germany and the UK, following its young protagonist Maya from childhood to her early twenties, and is a narrative rich in history, complicity and complicated relationships.
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Black Cake
Black Cake is Charmaine Wilkerson’s moving debut novel in which two estranged siblings, Byron and Benny, must come to terms with their mother’s death and their hidden past.
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Dele Weds Destiny
Tomi Obaro’s debut novel Dele Weds Destiny appealed to me with its beautiful, flashy cover and the prospect of a story about girlfriends. The book with its simple prose and predictable characters was welcome company on a very hot beach day.
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