The Message It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World Cold War Steve Annual 2025 (Signed Edition) Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry
Encounters with James Baldwin: celebrating 100 years The Fire Next Time How to Be an Antiracist Propa Propaganda
With Love, Grief and Fury Minor Detail Assata: An Autobiography So You Want to Talk About Race
Sister Outsider Their eyes were watching god [...] Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Roaring 20's Radio: Political & Courageous Books

By Salena Godden

By Salena Godden

Roaring 20's Radio: Political & Courageous Books

Here's over 150 political and courageous books to help you with the big conversations: some new books and recent reads and new obsessions, plus some unforgettable classic reads. Here's a list of inspirational works, deeply political work, powerful poets, bold new voices, classic literature, mind-blowing story tellers, memoirists, essayists, activists. Here's some of our anti-racist literary heroes. Please check out these titles and read and support your writers right now. Books are a gateway, please buy these books, read the work, feed your souls. Enjoy & Thank you

 

Like these books? Have a book you want us to champion and share? Wanna hear more? Tune into Roaring 20's Radio on Soho Radio: Roaring for art, culture, books, poetry and activism, hosted and produced by Salena Godden, Amah-Rose Abrams and Matt Abbott. Find us on Spotify, Apple etc.. via https://anchor.fm/roaring20sradio

The Message

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

£18.99
£18.04
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

Mikaela Loach

£16.99
£16.14
Cold War Steve Annual 2025 (Signed Edition)

Cold War Steve Annual 2025 (Signed Edition)

Cold War Steve

£18.99
£18.04
Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry

Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry

£9.99
£9.49
Encounters with James Baldwin: celebrating 100 years

Encounters with James Baldwin: celebrating 100 years

Fred D'aguiar, Tade Thompson, et al.

£15.99
£15.19
The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

£8.99
£8.54
How to Be an Antiracist

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

£10.99
£10.44
Propa Propaganda

Propa Propaganda

Benjamin Zephaniah

£10.99
£10.44
With Love, Grief and Fury

With Love, Grief and Fury

Salena Godden

£16.99
£16.14
Minor Detail

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

£12.99
£12.34
Assata: An Autobiography

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

£15.95
So You Want to Talk About Race

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

£8.99
£8.54
Sister Outsider

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

£9.99
£9.49
Their eyes were watching god

Their eyes were watching god

Zora Neale Hurston

£9.99
[...]

[...]

Fady Joudah

£11.99
£11.39
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

£11.99
£11.39
Adam

Adam

Gboyega Odubanjo

£12.99
£12.34
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism

How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism

Ece Temelkuran

£10.99
£10.44
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black...

Gary Younge

£14.99
£14.24
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez

£20.00
£19.00
Dark Days

Dark Days

James Baldwin

£3.00
£2.85
The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain

The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in...

£10.99
£10.44
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

Angela Davis

£10.99
£10.44
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

£9.99
£9.49
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and...

Adrienne Maree Brown

£12.00
£11.40
Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, et al.

£10.99
£10.44
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

£3.00
£2.85
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)

The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism...

George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison

£12.99
£12.34
Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller

Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller

Octavia E. Butler

£10.99
£10.44
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: With an introduction by Bernardine Evaristo

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the...

Ntozake Shange

£10.99
£10.44
England's Green

England's Green

Zaffar Kunial

£12.99
£12.34
Led By Donkeys: Adventures in Art, Activism and Accountability

Led By Donkeys: Adventures in Art, Activism and Accountability

Led by Donkeys

£18.99
£18.04
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

Mikaela Loach

£9.99
£9.49
Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of In Our Mad and Furious City

Mister, Mister: The new novel from the Booker Prize...

Guy Gunaratne

£20.00
£19.00
We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain

We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle...

Daniel Sonabend

£12.99
£12.34
May Day

May Day

Jackie Kay

£10.99
£10.44
Persepolis I & II

Persepolis I & II

Marjane Satrapi

£10.99
£10.44
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

£10.99
£10.44
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule...

Kehinde Andrews

£10.99
£10.44
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives

I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives

Colin Grant

£18.99
£18.04
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists...

Ta-Nehisi Coates

£9.99
£9.49
How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature

How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature

George Monbiot

£9.99
£9.49
Homegoing

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

£9.99
£9.49
The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who...

Chimene Suleyman

£18.99
£18.04
How Long 'til Black Future Month?

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

N. K. Jemisin

£9.99
£9.49
Black Liturgies: Prayers, poems and meditations for staying human

Black Liturgies: Prayers, poems and meditations for staying...

Cole Arthur Riley

£18.99
£18.04
Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism

Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism

Nadya Tolokonnikova

£9.99
£9.49
Cold War Steve Annual 2024

Cold War Steve Annual 2024

Cold War Steve

£18.99
£18.04
Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award

Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award

Octavia E. Butler

£10.99
£10.44
Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

£9.99
£9.49
The Last Holiday: A Memoir

The Last Holiday: A Memoir

Gil Scott-Heron

£10.99
£10.44
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

Stella Dadzie

£9.99
£9.49
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

Emma Dabiri

£7.99
£7.59
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Alice Walker

£10.99
£10.44
Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance - Salena Godden (Hardback)

Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and...

Salena Godden

£16.08
The Selfless Act of Breathing

The Selfless Act of Breathing

JJ Bola

£8.99
£8.54
Home Is Not A Place

Home Is Not A Place

Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson

£25.00
£23.75
Losing the Plot

Losing the Plot

Derek Owusu

£12.99
£12.34
Manorism

Manorism

Yomi Sode

£12.99
Aunty Uncle Poems

Aunty Uncle Poems

Gboyega Odubanjo

£5.00
£4.75
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Afua Hirsch

£12.99
£12.34
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

£16.99
£16.14
The Actual Essays

The Actual Essays

Inua Ellams

£9.99
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to...

Vanessa Nakate

£9.99
£9.49
Before Them, We

Before Them, We

£11.99
Cane, Corn & Gully

Cane, Corn & Gully

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa

£11.99
£11.39
Quiet

Quiet

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

£12.99
£12.34
Living by Troubled Waters

Living by Troubled Waters

Roy McFarlane

£10.99
£10.44
Half-Caste and Other Poems

Half-Caste and Other Poems

John Agard

£7.99
£7.59
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Linton Kwesi Johnson

£10.99
£10.44
The Other Black Girl: 'Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada' Cosmopolitan

The Other Black Girl: 'Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada'...

Zakiya Dalila Harris

£14.99
The Story of the Jamaican People

The Story of the Jamaican People

Philip Sherlock and Hazel Bennett

£35.59
Passing

Passing

Nella Larsen

£7.99
£7.59
Recitatif

Recitatif

Toni Morrison

£9.99
£9.49
The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah...

Alice Walker

£9.99
£9.49
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity,...

David Harewood

£20.00
£19.00
Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

£10.99
£10.44
Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut

Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut

Paul Mendez

£9.99
£9.49
The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo

The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo

Catherine Johnson

£7.99
£7.59
The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

David Olusoga

£11.99
£11.39
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Zora Neale Hurston

£9.99
£9.49
Annie John

Annie John

JAMAICA KINCAID

£8.99
Passengers: True Stories of the Underground Railroad

Passengers: True Stories of the Underground Railroad

William Still

£12.99
£12.34
Intimations: Six Essays

Intimations: Six Essays

Zadie Smith

£5.99
£5.69
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored

Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored

Jeffrey Boakye

£12.99
£12.34
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British...

Beryl Gilroy

£10.99
£10.44
The Tradition

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

£10.99
£10.44
The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

£7.99
£7.59
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

C. Riley Snorton

£21.99
Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder

£9.99
£9.49
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

£18.99
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation

Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation

Colin Grant

£12.99
£12.34
Testaments to Life & Death: The Repeat Beat Poet

Testaments to Life & Death: The Repeat Beat Poet

Peter Degraft-Johnson

£8.99
£8.54
The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself

The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself

Yrsa Daley-Ward

£10.99
£10.44
The 392

The 392

Ashley Hickson-Lovence

£8.99
£8.54
Keeping the House

Keeping the House

Tice Cin

£11.99
£11.39
Moon Witch, Spider King: Dark Star Trilogy 2

Moon Witch, Spider King: Dark Star Trilogy 2

Marlon James

£10.99
£10.44
Ic3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain

Ic3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain

£10.99
£10.44
Once in a House on Fire

Once in a House on Fire

Andrea Ashworth

£10.99
£10.44
Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize

Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize

Andrea Levy

£10.99
£10.44
Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for...

Diana Evans

£9.99
£9.49
Black Joy

Black Joy

Various

£14.99
Cygnet

Cygnet

Season Butler

£8.99
£8.54
Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday

£9.99
£9.49
The Girl with the Louding Voice: The Bestselling Word of Mouth Hit That Will Win Over Your Heart

The Girl with the Louding Voice: The Bestselling Word of...

Abi Dare

£9.99
£9.49
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Bernardine Evaristo

£9.99
£9.49
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World

An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and...

Patrisse Cullors

£16.99
£16.14
Noughts & Crosses

Noughts & Crosses

Malorie Blackman

£8.99
£8.54
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday...

Akala

£10.99
£10.44
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home

Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home

Nikesh Shukla

£9.99
£9.49
Don't Touch My Hair

Don't Touch My Hair

Emma Dabiri

£10.99
£10.44
The Old Woman With the Knife

The Old Woman With the Knife

Gu Byeong-mo

£14.99
Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black

Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the...

III Whytelaw Dr Boule and Nels Abbey

£10.99
£10.44
Poor

Poor

Caleb Femi

£10.99
£10.44
In Every Mirror She's Black

In Every Mirror She's Black

Lola Akinmade Akerstrom

£9.99
£9.49
Love in Colour: 'So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' Candice Carty-Williams

Love in Colour: 'So rarely is love expressed this richly,...

Bolu Babalola

£10.99
£10.44
Mrs Death Misses Death

Mrs Death Misses Death

Salena Godden

£14.99
£14.24
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

£16.99
A River Called Time

A River Called Time

Courttia Newland

£8.99
£8.54
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Michaela Coel

£9.99
More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

£16.99
People Person: From the bestselling author of Queenie and the writer of BBC's Champion

People Person: From the bestselling author of Queenie and the...

Candice Carty-Williams

£12.99
The Selfless Act of Breathing

The Selfless Act of Breathing

JJ Bola

£14.99
£14.24
The Nickel Boys: Now a major motion picture and Oscar nominee for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay

The Nickel Boys: Now a major motion picture and Oscar nominee...

Colson Whitehead

£9.99
£9.49
When We Were Birds

When We Were Birds

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

£14.99
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time

Teju Cole

£21.00
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: “An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel” STEPHEN F

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: “An absolutely...

PATERSON JOSEPH

£16.99
£16.14
Kumukanda

Kumukanda

Kayo Chingonyi

£12.00
£11.40
These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East

These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British...

Sabrina Mahfouz

£16.99
£16.14
The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry

The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry

Lemn Sissay

£16.99
Feeling Good: The Best Of Nina Simone

Feeling Good: The Best Of Nina Simone

£15.99
£15.19
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

James Baldwin and Raoul Peck

£10.99
£10.44
The Kids

The Kids

Hannah Lowe

£10.99
£10.44
Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021

Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021

Caleb Azumah Nelson

£9.99
£9.49
Keisha The Sket: ‘A true British classic.’ Stormzy

Keisha The Sket: ‘A true British classic.’ Stormzy

Jade LB

£9.99
£9.49
You Are a Champion: How to Be the Best You Can Be

You Are a Champion: How to Be the Best You Can Be

Marcus Rashford

£9.99
£9.49
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Zora Neale Hurston

£9.99
£9.49
Sasha Knight

Sasha Knight

Sean Godfrey

£12.99
£12.34
Salvation: Black People and Love

Salvation: Black People and Love

Bell Hooks

£10.99
£10.44
Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

£9.99
£9.49
The Verandah Poems

The Verandah Poems

Jean Binta Breeze

£9.95
£9.45
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1...

Reni Eddo-Lodge

£10.99
£10.44
Black and British: A Forgotten History

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga

£12.99
£12.34
The Infinite

The Infinite

Patience Agbabi

£7.99
£7.59
My Darling from the Lions

My Darling from the Lions

Rachel Long

£10.99
£10.44
In Search of Equilibrium

In Search of Equilibrium

Theresa Lola

£9.99
£9.49
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Shortlisted for the 2022 Felix Dennis Prize

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Shortlisted...

Warsan Shire

£12.99
£12.34
Refugee Boy

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah

£10.99
There is (still) love here

There is (still) love here

Dean Atta

£10.99
£10.44
A Little Resurrection

A Little Resurrection

Selina Nwulu

£9.99
£9.49
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

Angela Y. Davis

£10.99
£10.44
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection

The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel from the Vintage Earth...

Monique Roffey

£9.99
£9.49
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from...

Bernardine Evaristo

£10.99
£10.44
Pepper Seed

Pepper Seed

Malika Booker

£8.99
£8.54
All My Lies Are True: Lies, obsession, murder. Will the truth set anyone free?

All My Lies Are True: Lies, obsession, murder. Will the truth...

Dorothy Koomson

£8.99
£8.54
The Actual

The Actual

Inua Ellams

£9.99
£9.49
Surge

Surge

Jay Bernard

£12.99
£12.34
All The Names Given

All The Names Given

Raymond Antrobus

£10.99
£10.44
Happy Here: 10 stories from Black British authors & illustrators

Happy Here: 10 stories from Black British authors & illustrators

Yomi Sode, Theresa Lola, et al.

£6.99
£6.64
One of Them: An Eton College Memoir

One of Them: An Eton College Memoir

Musa Okwonga

£8.99
£8.54
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration and Home

The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration...

Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman

£9.99
£9.49
Not Quite Right For Us

Not Quite Right For Us

Kerry Hudson, Colin Grant, et al.

£11.99
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

Johny Pitts

£10.99
£10.44
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Jackie Kay

£10.99
£10.44