I Heard What You Said
By: Jeffrey Boakye
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifet…
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1. My Name is Leon
By: Kit de Waal
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV and Curly Wurlys are i… read more
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"When people fuck with you, you gotta choice. You can fuck back or swallow down. Swallow down enough times and you start to choke. Or you can learn to accept. Let go. Breathe easy."-Kit de Waal, My Name is Leon
2. Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
By: Hollie McNish
4.42
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish. There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't k… read more
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3. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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4. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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5. The Final Year
By: Matt Goodfellow
4.71
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more
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6. Crossing the Line
By: Tia Fisher
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more
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7. Tyger
By: S.F. Said
4.17
Format: 304 pages, None
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more
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8. Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW … read more
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9. Just Sayin': My Life In Words
By: Malorie Blackman
4.53
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more
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"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words
10. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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11. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
12. The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age
By: Claudia Hammond
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we fee… read more
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13. My Name Is Why
By: Lemn Sissay
4.29
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more
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14. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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15. People Person
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more
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16. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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17. That Moment When...: Life Stories From Way Back Then
By: Mo Gilligan
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There's Mo to life... In 2016 a totally broke Mo Gilligan recorded and posted a funny video online … read more
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18. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
19. Needle
By: Patrice Lawrence
3.69
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for… read more
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20. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
By: Michaela Coel
4.15
Format: 128 pages, ebook
A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life… read more
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21. What About Men?
By: Caitlin Moran
3.70
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more
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"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?
22. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
By: Michael Rosen
4.00
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more
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23. Queen Hereafter
By: Isabelle Schuler
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more
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24. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies
By: Amanda Brown
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more
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- audiobook
25. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
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"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
26. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.33
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the … read more
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27. I Heard What You Said
By: Jeffrey Boakye
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifet… read more
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28. Reading Lessons: The Books We Read at School, The Conversations They Spark, we read at school, and Why They Matter
By: Carol Atherton
4.55
Format: 392 pages, ebook
An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives… read more
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- memoir
- education
"They worm their way into our heads and touch us in a way that's more personal than any other school subject. Their lessons will sit quietly within us for years, until something awakens then: a partic…"-Carol Atherton, Reading Lessons: The Books We Read at School, The Conversations They Spark, we read at school, and Why They Matter
29. Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
By: David Harewood
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S BEST MEMOIRS OF 2021 AND THE TIMES' BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOKS OF THE YEAR.'… read more
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30. Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race
By: Pragya Agarwal
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
We want our children to thrive and flourish in a diverse, multi-cultural world and we owe it to the… read more
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31. The Life of Stephen Lawrence
By: Verna Allette Wilkins
4.29
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Stephen Lawrence was a bright, athletic, young man with high hopes for the future. He lived in sout… read more
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