Lemn Sissay's Recommended Reads

By National Portrait Gallery

Lemn Sissay's Recommended Reads

Lemn Sissay MBE was one of the judges for the National Portrait Gallery's ambitious community project, Hold Still. Here he shares with us his recommended reads for the winter.

Hold Still: A Portrait of our Nation in 2020: Sunday Times...

£24.95

£23.70

Game On: Ice Breakers, Memory Games, Wordplay and Everything...

Marley Byng

£12.00

£11.40

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

£7.99

£7.59

How Do You Live?: The inspiration for The Boy and the Heron,...

Genzaburo Yoshino

£15.99

£15.19

The Panopticon

Dr Jenni Fagan

£9.99

£9.49

Mrs Death Misses Death

Salena Godden

£14.99

£14.24

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in...

Adam Hochschild

£10.99

£10.44

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

Aida Edemariam

£10.99

£10.44

Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now

Helen Pankhurst

£12.99

£12.34

The Odyssey

Homer

£14.99

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

Rachel Holmes

£16.99

£16.14

Over the Moon

Imtiaz Dharker

£12.00

£11.40

bone

Yrsa Daley-Ward

£9.99

£9.49

The Actual

Inua Ellams

£9.99

£9.49

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of...

£30.00

£28.50

Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

William Dalrymple and Anita Anand

£14.99

£14.24