Black Stories Matter

A collection of novels, memoirs and informative titles which encourage us to dig deeper, look closer and think bigger.

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Black Stories Matter - Fiction titles

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Paperback
Author: Walker, Alice
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Meridian' is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the American South in the 1960s it follows Meridian Hill, a courageous young activist who dedicates her self heart and soul to her civil rights work. Originally published: London: Andre Deutsch, 1976
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Author: Gyasi, Yaa
Year: 2017
Media class: Large print
Publisher: Thorpe
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Walker, Alice
Year: 1983
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Nwabineli, Onyi
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Magpie
Resource type: Physical
Note: Stunningly honest and bursting with wit, 'Someday Maybe' is the story of grief and resilience that you won't be able to stop talking about.
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Author: May, Nikki
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: Physical
Note: Ronke, Simi, Boo are three mixed-race friends living in London. They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English, though they don't all choose to see it that way. Everyday racism has never held them back, but now in their thirties, they question their future.
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Author: Jaye, Lola
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Macmillan
Resource type: Physical
Note: This fictional work is a heartfelt and emotional dual-narrative historical story about two children locked in the same attic almost a century apart, told through the lens of Black history.
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Author: Akerstrom, Lola Akinmade
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Apollo
Resource type: Physical
Note: Three Black women building new lives in Stockholm become linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man.
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Author: Jones, Robert
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: riverrun
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under the pitiless gaze of its overseers and its owner, Massa Paul. Two young enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah dwell among the animals they keep in the barn, helping out in the fields when their day is done.
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Author: Taylor, Brandon
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Daunt Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Booker Prize 2020 Longlist Booker Prize 2020 Shortlist Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree.
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Author: Ellison, Ralph
Year: 2014
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Viking
Resource type: Physical
Note: The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell. Originally published: New York: Random House, 1952
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Black Stories Matter - Non-Fiction Titles

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Author: Kwaw-Swanzy, Zainab
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Jacaranda
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Year: 2015
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Text
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Hirsch, Afua
Year: 2018
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Skloot, Rebecca
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Pitts, Johny
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Malcolm X
Author: Haley, Alex
Year: 2001
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Jones, Saeed
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Olusoga, David
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: David Olusoga's 'Black and British' is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa.
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Author: Adegoke, Yomi
Author: Uviebinene, Elizabeth
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: 4th Estate
Resource type: Physical
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Author: Kendi, Ibram X
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The Bodley Head
Resource type: Physical
Note: We all occasionally think or do things that are racist. No one considers themselves to be a racist. Yet the divisions and inequalities of racism are all around us. In this game-changing, empowering book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that racism is so engrained in our world
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