Books for Change

A DUBRAY BOOKS RECOMMENDED READ As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love, their Nigeria is under military dictatorship and people are fleeing the country if they can. 'Captures the complexities of love and race, and gives a true insight into the immigrant's psyche.' Emma Shannon, Blackrock.

* One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling six-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of Celebrations

From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

A Dubray Teen Recommended Read... A powerful and brave YA novel about what prejudice looks like in the 21st century.

The Sunday Times bestseller on race and class in the UK, from the MOBO award-winning musician Akala

The mortal consequences of right-wing backlash politics for the white voters they promise to help

An illuminating manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation - and a weapon against scientific racism - by the author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED

It's about time we made motherhood more diverse...

Essential for all people who hold white privilege. This book will open your eyes and change your life.

Our work needs no more martyrs. You can fight these fights and live.

A stunning family memoir by journalist Georgina Lawton, exploring race, identity and the devasting effect of long-held secrets on a happy family.

Nominated for the Women’s Prize 2020. From the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us from each other.

Nominated for the Booker Prize 2020. A Dubray Staff Recommended Read.

A Dubray Staff Recommended Read. The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim-Crow-era Florida.

A Dubray Staff Recommended Read... From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mothers, a powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white.