'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Hugely important' PAULA AKPAN____________________________As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide a...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Taking Up Space written and read by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi.THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS____________________________‘Brilliant’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS‘Hugely important’ PAULA AKPAN‘Essential’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO____________________________

A definitive guide to calling out racial stereotypes and understanding the meaning behind them___________Clapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering comeback; with the aim of shutting. it. down.___________In order to have an honest and open conversation about race, we need to identify areas where things are not right....

‘The wisest book I’ve read for many years … Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health … Hugely recommended’ Stephen FryTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural world?In a powerful combination of contemporar...

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'This is the book I've been waiting for - for years. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now' Benjamin ZephaniahFrom the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, histo...

A GUARDIAN 'ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR 2020'A RED MAGAZINE 'CAN'T WAIT TO READ' BOOK OF 2020THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY SELLING SOUTH KOREAN SENSATION THAT HAS GOT THE WHOLE WORLD TALKINGKim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own.Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A deliciously funny, characterful, topical and thrilling novel for our times' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes...

WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZEThe compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young lif...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah Magazine**'Favourite book [of the] year' Is...

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNERRECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD*One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade*This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelv...

THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER**** Read the modern classic behind the Bafta-winning series. **'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' Guardian**'The book that defined a generation.' Stylist'A Tube stop-missing, escalator-reading tale.' Evening StandardConnell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Conn...