Recent debuts by British ESEA writers picked by Helena Lee
By East Side Voices
By East Side Voices
Woman, Eating: 'Absolutely brilliant - Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own' Ruth Ozeki
CLAIRE KOHDA
£14.99A genre-defying novel that features a compelling modern heroine for our times: the mixed-race, art-loving vampire Lydia.
Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once
Phil Wang
£20.00 £19.00Everything we’ve come to expect from the comic Phil Wang: wicked humour, sharp insight, and a brilliant deconstruction of what it is to be of mixed heritage in Britain.
RENDANG
Will Harris
£10.99 £10.44Will Harris’ collection of poetry is astonishing; his voice is masterful in capturing the paradoxes of identity in contemporary Britain.
Bad Fruit
Ella King
£14.99 £14.24A taut, dark novel that fizzes with underlying menace, as it charts a complex mother-daughter relationship.
Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter
Angela Hui
£16.99 £16.14A food memoir from the Time Out and Vice journalist Angela Hui, about growing up in a Chinese takeaway in the Welsh valleys, with each chapter taking the form of a family recipe.