Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She\"s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she\"s just been married off a fat old Roman. Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor....

The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landmark for Britain. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history....

It\"s a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy\"s mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear?...

Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the New World . . ....

Meet Stanley Williams: Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life than his nine-to-five banking job in a sky-high glass menagerie. Enter Jessie O\"Donnell: barmaid, former singer-cum-comedienne, and desperate to get into her rusty old Lady Niva and hit the freeway across Europe....

A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and transformative. Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She\"s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she\"s just been married off a fat old Roman....

British Book Awards Author & Fiction Book Of The Year 2020 Winner Of The Booker Prize 2019 The Sunday Times 1# Bestseller \"The most absorbing book I read all year.\" Roxane Gay This is Britain as you\"ve never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told....