Casey is first and foremost a writer but in the wake of her mother’s death and the end of a tumultuous relationship she feels lost and untethered. Unsure of herself, her life and her career, she meets two very different men who offer her very different paths.

Oscar is a successful author who lost his wife and is now raising their two young boys. Then there is Silas, who is also a writer but struggling with his career like Casey. He is kind, intelligent and handsome but battling his own demons. Caught between two men, Casey slowly starts to how she is living her live and the choices that brought her to where she is. Slowly she begins to take ownership of her life…

A corker of a book for anyone looking to be their own cheerleader both professionally and personally. We are talking SELF PROMOTION PEOPLE! No longer sitting in the shadows hoping our bosses will recognise the extra mile(s) we go and the long hours we stay. Now is the time to champion ourselves, speak up in meetings and get the recognition we deserve…

On the island things disappear. It can be anything, hats, birds, perfume, photographs, even limbs.. When the Memory Police have decided something is to be disappeared, it no longer has any meaning and must be disappeared by any means necessary until it is completely erased from living memory. However, there are people on the island who don't forget. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him…

Rainbow Milk is a tender, explicit, and beautiful intersectional story about race, sexuality, and religion.

It begins in the 1950s with Norman Alonso, a wonderful man from Jamaica. Wanting to seek out a better life, he and his wife travel to the UK. They arrive in the motherland with many other Caribbean people – now known as the Windrush generation – and settle in the Black Country in the Midlands. However, their arrival is met with racism, ostracisation, and illness…

This is a masterclass in writing; Brit Bennett is a marvel!

The Vignes twins, Stella and Desiree, are born in the fictional town of Mallard, Louisiana, an exclusive place established by their ancestor for light-skinned black people. Identical in every physical way but with very different personalities, the girls are inseparable growing up. However, longing to escape the restraints of living in a small town like Mallard the girls runaway to New Orleans. It is there that their paths begin to diverge. Ten years later, the twins' lives couldn't be more different: one has returned to Mallard with her young black daughter having escaped an abusive relationship, while the other is in LA, in a white neighbourhood, married to a wealthy white man and living as a white woman…

Fifteen-year-old Vanessa is a talented writer with a love of literature. She is a deep thinker and has always felt painfully different from everyone else. Feeling alone and isolated from her classmates, she immediately takes to her English teacher, 42-year-old Jacob Strane. Like a diary entry, Vanessa describes in intricate detail every way she is attracted to him, weaving the tale of her first love. Slowly, he begins to indulge her teenage fantasies. It begins small — a touch of the knee, long hours spent in the classroom alone together — but evolves into something much bigger and more sinister…