An Olive Grove in Ends
By: Moses McKenzie
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sayon Hughes longs to escape the volatile Bristol neighborhood known as Ends, the tight-knit but s…
Want to Read $ 13.99"The seasons were getting ready to swap shifts. The gloom hadn't completely taken the skies but the grey that characterised the British firmament was arriving at an alarming pace."-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
"The seasons were getting ready to swap shifts. The gloom hadn't completely taken the skies but the grey that characterised the British firmament was arriving at an alarming pace."-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
"A car pulled up behind us ... some yutes stepped from it. They all wore masks and gloves; it was like a surgeons' convention. And in many ways it was; everyone had blood on their hands."-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
"A car pulled up behind us ... some yutes stepped from it. They all wore masks and gloves; it was like a surgeons' convention. And in many ways it was; everyone had blood on their hands."-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
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1. Birdcage Walk
By: Helen Dunmore
4.15
Format: 384 pages,
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Ra… read more
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2. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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3. The Whale Tattoo
By: Jon Ransom
3.75
Format: None pages, None
Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a… read more
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4. The 392
By: Ashley Hickson-Lovence
3.73
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
Set entirely on a London bus travelling from Hoxton to Highbury and taking place over just 36 minut… read more
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5. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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6. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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- romance
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7. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
8. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
9. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
10. Rosewater
By: Liv Little
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more
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11. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
12. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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13. The Bread the Devil Knead
By: Lisa Allen-Agostini
4.03
Format: 277 pages, ebook
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more
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"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
14. Small Worlds
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4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
15. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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16. Here Again Now
By: Okechukwu Nzelu
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you… read more
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17. Riambel
By: Priya Hein
3.97
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Riambel, île Maurice. Derrière les plages de sable fin, c’est dans le bidonville qu’on appelle Afri… read more
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18. Plume
By: Will Wiles
3.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The dark, doomy humour of Care of Wooden Floors mixed with the fantastical, anarchic sense of possi… read more
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19. Edge of Here: Stories From Here to Now
By: Kelechi Okafor
4.17
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
Enter a world very close to our own...One in which technology can allow you to explore an alternate… read more
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20. An Olive Grove in Ends
By: Moses McKenzie
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Sayon Hughes longs to escape the volatile Bristol neighborhood known as Ends, the tight-knit but s… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- british literature
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- crime
- drama
"The seasons were getting ready to swap shifts. The gloom hadn't completely taken the skies but the grey that characterised the British firmament was arriving at an alarming pace."-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
"A car pulled up behind us ... some yutes stepped from it. They all wore masks and gloves; it was like a surgeons' convention. And in many ways it was; everyone had blood on their hands."-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
"Before, if someone asked me to describe her, I would've said that she was a light. One that everyone wanted for themselves . At times her energy would often be drained brightening those around her..."-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
"And what a strange emotion disappointment was to circumnavigate. It wasn't a mountain to climb, or a valley to trek. It didn't share the emotional highs that anger brought, nor was it low enough to w…"-Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends
21. For Such a Time as This
By: Shani Akilah
4.12
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Gabby and Daniel cross paths at the wedding of a mutual friend. They both wonder if this could be t… read more
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