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Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction
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... In this fantastically imaginative in ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction
Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other: Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction | Series: Booker Prize Winner Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. The ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other: Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize - A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction | Series: Booker Prize Winner Ser.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a singl ...Show more
How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love by Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace McCleen, Donal Ryan, Nikesh Shukla, D.W. Wilson
Category: General Biography
'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for fami ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Biography
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
Manifesto - On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Languages and Reference
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and act ...Show more
Mapping the Future - The Complete Works by Nathalie Teitler (Editor); Bernardine Evaristo (Foreword by); Karen McCarthy Woolf (Editor)
Category: Poetry
Mapping the Future offers new work by all 30 writers supported by The Complete Works project, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode and Karen McCarthy Woolf. In 2008 the level of ...Show more
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction
Treat yourself to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo, part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics 'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Sm ...Show more
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction
Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo is a tragi-comic tale of homosexual love set in contemporary London. Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste i ...Show more