Regency romance is a category that lends itself to a wide range of scenarios which make an excellent basis for a really good story to be contrived. Jill E. Warner has taken the thread of racism and bigotry, rife in British Society and bound it into a story of romance...
Mirandi Riwoe has captured the essence of humanity in her series of short stories all based on the fragility of humanity in The Burnished Sun. Beautifully worded each vignette is a powerful look at people. From the artist’s muse in Annah, long removed from her...
In a stunningly heartfelt, quirky, often funny but unbearably sad memoir, Brian Broome shares what it is really like to be black, gay and an American, in his ‘coming of age’ work Punch Me Up to The Gods. Born into a family where to be black and male meant you had to...
Sixteen year old physically identical twin sisters Stella and Desiree Vignes flee the small town Mallard, Louisiana, USA to start a new and better life in New Orleans. They become irrevocably separated and embark on drastically different paths. Desiree returns to...
Late one night, Emira Tucker, the 25-year-old black baby sitter for Alix Chamberlain, a wealthy white blogger and minor social media celebrity is stopped by the security guard at an upmarket grocery shop and accused of kidnapping her charge two year old Briar. Kiley...
Matt Okine has, in Being Black ‘n’ Chicken, & Chips, opened a very interesting dialog on coming of age, coping with curves life throws at you and puberty, through the eyes and emotions of Mike Amon, a kid who is at the cusp of the very real world of becoming a...
As with all good stories, this book can be enjoyed by all ages. It is a fantastic book to share and discuss either with a child or a classroom of children. It is set in America, in Oregon and New York, and instinctively rather than overtly, looks at the heroes of the...
These two authors have combined to produce an amazingly powerful work of young adult fiction. The dual perspectives, given by two narrators, give authenticity to each of the characters. Jess is a young woman who has an extremely unhappy home life, and reacts in a...
