Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
Evaristo has also written the introductions for the books in the series. Featuring rediscovered works about Black Britain and the diaspora that were written over the past 100 years, the intention is to present a “body of work that illustrates a variety of preoccupations and genres that offer important and diverse Black British perspectives."
The Booker Prize-winner says, "Our ambition is to correct historic bias in British publishing and bring a wealth of lost writing back into circulation. While many of us continue to lobby for the publishing industry to become more inclusive and representative of our society, this project looks back to the past in order to resurrect texts that will help reconfigure black British literary history."
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Featuring five paperbacks from Black Britain: Writing Back:
Growing Out by Barbara Blake Hannah
A beautiful memoir written by the first black female TV journalist about her experience migrating from the Caribbean to the UK, and the beauty and struggle of becoming a woman during that experience.
ISBN: 9780241993767
Length: 224 Pages
Sequins for a Ragged Hem by Amryl Johnson
A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s.
ISBN: 9780241995754
Length: 320 Pages
Britons Through Negro Spectacles by ABC Merriman-Labor
A riotous, witty travelogue documenting the authors' experiences in Britain in the early 1900s, from an African perspective.
ISBN: 9780241559741
Length: 192 Pages
A Black Boy at Eton by Dillibe Onyeama
A powerful insider expose on the inherent, systemic racism present at Eton in the 1960s from one the first black students to attend.
ISBN: 9780241993811
Length: 272 Pages
My Fathers’ Daughter by Hannah Azieb-Pool
A shattering portrayal of family, guilt and unshakable bonds as a family's deepest secrets explosively unravel.
ISBN: 9780241996065
Length: 288 Pages
