February 3, 2022 White Debt by Thomas Harding Review by Liz Dexter As a child, I was taught that Britain had been the first nation to abolish slavery, that the effort had…
September 25, 2018 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Reviewed by Annabel Having been Man Booker shortlisted in 2011 for her debut novel, Half Blood Blues, set in Berlin during WWII and fifty…
June 12, 2018 Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Reviewed by Harriet This little treasure of a book tells the story, in his own words, of the last survivor of the last, illegal,…
October 5, 2017 Sugar Money by Jane Harris Reviewed by Harriet Jane Harris is not exactly a prolific novelist. Five years passed beween the publication of her debut novel The Observations (2006)…
July 27, 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Paperback review by Lucy Unwin This is not a historical novel. Not just because the facts of slavery in pre-Civil War America are strained…
