17/10/2026
📚🖤 Black History Month🖤📚
This Black History Month, explore a collection of inspiring fiction and thought-provoking non-fiction that celebrates Black voices, histories, experiences and achievements.
📖 Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction)
Four women navigate love, identity and belonging across Nigeria and America.
📖 The Disappearers by Marlon James (Fiction)
A powerful story of q***r life, survival and acceptance in 1980s Jamaica.
📖 The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Fiction)
Based on the true story of a Somali sailor wrongly convicted of murder in Cardiff.
📖 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Fiction)
A woman traces her family's history through generations of struggle and resilience.
📖 Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Fiction)
Family secrets unravel as two siblings discover their mother's hidden past.
📚 Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Non-fiction)
An exploration of the hidden systems that shape race and inequality.
📚 The Colour of Injustice by Lee Lawrence (Non-fiction)
Ten real-life cases reveal the history of racial injustice in Britain.
📚 Things We Should Talk About by Alex Beresford (Non-fiction)
A personal and insightful look at race, identity and belonging in modern Britain.
📚 Daring to Be Free by Sudhir Hazareesingh (Non-fiction)
The story of how enslaved people fought for their own freedom across the Atlantic world.
📚 Natives by Akala (Non-fiction)
A powerful examination of race, class and identity in contemporary Britain.
Which title will you pick up this Black History Month?
