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A group of young, Black British friends navigate their way through the ups and downs of modern London life, in this richly imagined collection of linked stories.
'Heartachingly beautiful.' Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, author of Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?
'Devoured this in one daysuffused with love and warmth.' Jendella Benson, author of Hope & Glory
From the tingling excitement of a new relationship to the challenges and humour of online dating, from workplace racism to isolation and loneliness, Niah and her friends are there for each other. They're young, they're smart, and they're part of a tight friendship group determined to make the most of everyday. The world is full of possibilities when the pandemic hits, and snatches away everything they take for granted.
Shani Akilah's spectacular collection of stories bursts with romance, friendship and warmth. For Such a Time as This offers a powerful snapshot of a moment, a city and a group of friends who sustain each other through bad times and good.
No. 1 New York Times bestseller
""A powerful and important novel. Observer
""No one else who writes like Angie. Phenomenal. The Guardian
From international phenomenon Angie Thomas comes a hard-hitting return to Garden Heights with the story of Maverick Carter, Starrs father, set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.
With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom working two jobs, seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter helps the only way he knows how: slinging drugs. Life's not perfect, but he's got everything under control. Until he finds out he's a father...
Suddenly it's not so easy to deal drugs and finish school with a baby dependent on him for everything. So when he's offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But when King Lord blood runs through your veins, you don't get to just walk away.
Praise for The Hate U Give:
No. 1 New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Award
Winner of Children's Book of the Year at The British Book Awards
Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honour for the Carnegie Medal
A major motion picture from Fox starring Amandla Stenberg
""The Hate U Give says more about the contemporary Black experience in America than any book I have read for years."" Guardian
""A startling, important book."" The Times
""Passionate and uncompromising."" Observer
""Thomas has given a voice to her generation."" Stylist
""One of the most important books."" Nikesh Shukla
""Stunning, brilliant, gut-wrenching."" John Green
""Utterly compelling."" Sunday Times
This brilliant, shape-shifting novel teems with charms and curses, stunning disasters and startling moments of grace. Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather
Justin Haynes proves himself an absolute alchemist of fiction . . . This is a stunning debut as witty as is it is rapturous. Jericho Brown, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Tradition
Evoking the themes of Ovid, the language of Toni Morrison, and the genre-blending of Octavia Butler, Haynes scales the heights of his ambition. This soaring work is not to be missed. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
There is bad luck in New Felicity. The people of the small coastal village have taken in Milagros, an 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee, just as Trinidads government has begun cracking down on undocumented migrantsand now an American journalist has come to town asking questions.
New Felicitys superstitious fishermen fear the worst, certain theyve brought bad luck on the village by killing a local witch who had herself murdered two villagers the year before. The town has been plagued since her death by alarming visits from her supernatural mother, as well as by a mysterious profusion of scarlet ibis birds.
Skittish that the reporters story will bring down the wrath of the ministry of national security, the fishermen take things into their own hands. From there, we go backward and forward in timefrom the towns early days, when it was the site of a sugar plantation, to Milagross adulthood as she searches for her mother across the Americas.
In between, through the voices of a chorus of narrators, we glimpse moments from various villagers lives, each one setting into motion events that will reverberate outwards across the novel and shape Milagross fate.
With kinetic, absorbing language and a powerful sense of voice, Ibis meditates on the bond between mothers and daughters, both highlighting the migrant crisis that troubles the contemporary world and offering a moving exploration of how to square where we come from with who we become.