Books I'm Looking Forward To In 2021
By Nikesh Shukla
By Nikesh Shukla
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
Nikesh Shukla
£16.99 £16.14I am looking forward to my memoir coming out mostly because I gave it everything I have and it's a special book and it was supposed to come out September 2020. Happy to say goodbye to it. But only if you buy it.
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
Sonia Faleiro
£16.99Sonia Faleiro's journalism is nothing short of forensic and this investigation into the disappearance of two girls is a masterful exploration of sexism and patriarchy.
Diary of a Film
Niven Govinden
£14.99 £14.24A beautiful ode to the creation of art, queer love and storytellers by a masterful novelist.
How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures
Huma Qureshi
£12.99 £12.34A warm and heartbreaking memoir about love and grief and finding yourself.
Interior Chinatown: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020
CHARLES YU
£12.99 £12.34So funny and out there and prescient and skewering (I love the word skewering, spot it in other write ups).
Luster
Raven Leilani
£14.99Skewering. (Ha, told you). A hilarious series of fragments about now, about love, now, about mental health and listlessness and modern families.
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
Leah Cowan
£9.99 £9.49A statement. A powerful statement about who gets to move and who gets to put borders in front of them.
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Craig Taylor
£25.00 £23.75The follow up to Taylor's Londoners, is as warm and insightful and vignettey as its predecessor.
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
Kehinde Andrews
£20.00Professor Andrews never misses. And this is a compelling account of European Empires and the cost of their plunder.
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Sathnam Sanghera
£18.99Another book about empire, this looks at the legacy of empire in the UK and forces us to have an honest conversation.
One of Them: An Eton College Memoir
Musa Okwonga
£8.99 £8.54An honest and unflinching memoir about Eton that seeks to show us how those who control us are made and incubated and given permission.
Asylum Road
Olivia Sudjic
£14.99Sudjic's first novel, Sympathy was brilliant on obsession. This looks just as good as a couple deals with the past as they make a journey to redemption.
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
£14.99About grief and the opiod crisis and legacy and heritage and everything inbetween.
We Are All Birds of Uganda
Hafsa Zayyan
£14.99Flitting between Uganda in the 60s and now, this explores family and migration and London and the things we do to keep our families together.
A River Called Time
Courttia Newland
£16.99 £16.14Superb tour de force of speculative fiction about the Ark and its occupants trying to survive. This is an allegory about social inequality that stays with you.
Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden
£14.99 £14.24True to Godden's voice, this debut novel is a poetic tour de force of voice, mischievous and experimental, rhythmic and powerful.
The Edge
James Smythe
£8.99 £8.54Finally! Part 3 of the Anomaly Quartet, a brilliant claustrophobic sci-fi thriller about time and memory and regret. Tense and taut.
The Khan: A Times Bestseller
Saima Mir
£14.99 £14.24Blisteringly compelling crime fiction. The Godfather in Bradford.