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Leila Mottley
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Leila Mottley

Leila Mottley was born in 2003 in Oakland, California, where she still lives and works
The Secret Scripture
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The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry’s haunting story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, yet still marked by love, passion and hope
On a Woman's Madness
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On a Woman's Madness

This classic of queer literature – as electrifying today as it was when it first appeared in 1982 – tells the story of a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing 
Is Mother Dead
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Is Mother Dead

‘To mother is to murder, or close enough,’ thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
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Black Bag

A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane
The Fortune Men
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The Fortune Men

Nadifa Mohamed’s gripping novel about a petty criminal in Cardiff who becomes the last man to be hanged there, wrongfully convicted of murder in 1952
Standing Heavy
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Standing Heavy

A unique insight into everything that passes under a security guard's gaze, which also serves as a searingly witty deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption