Award
Jhalak Prize
First awarded in 2017, the Jhalak Prize awards seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in the UK and Ireland.
2025
Children's & Young Adult
King of Nothing
Anton Charles and his friends are the kings of the school, and they rule with an iron fist, intimidating classmates and maintaining a reputation built on fear. But at home, Mum reigns supreme, and after one too many detentions, she cuts off Anton’s internet and decides it’s time for a serious...
Poetry
Collected Poems
Mimi Khalvati, one of our best-loved poets, was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six, only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen. The loss of her native country, culture and mother tongue formed the bedrock of her adoptive...
Prose
Namesake
A Palestinian Woman's dazzling exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home.
I may not be brave enough, but somewhere deep inside of me there is, perhaps, the kernel of someone who is. That brave someone was the legendary Nusayba bint Ka’ab al Khazrajia, who fought alongside the Prophet...
2024
Children's & Young Adult
Safiyyah's War
Safiyyah loathes the brutal Nazi occupation of Paris, even though her Muslim identity keeps her safe—or, at least, safer than her Jewish neighbors. Violence lurks in the streets, her best friend has fled, and even her place of refuge—the library—has turned shadowy and confusing, as the invaders fear...
Prose
Anansi's Gold
When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn’t already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation’s inspiring president, Kwame...
2023
Children's & Young Adult
When Our Worlds Collided
When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teenagers from very different walks of life are unexpectedly brought together. What follows flips their worlds upside down and makes Chantelle, Jackson, and Marc question the deep-rooted prejudice and...
Prose
None of the Above
In None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrases—some deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some celebratory—have fundamentally shaped Alabanza, both for better...
2022
Children's & Young Adult
Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
Eleven-year-old Danny Chung loves drawing more than anything - certainly more than maths, which, according to his dad and everyone else, is what he is 'supposed' to be good at. He also loves having his own room where he can draw in peace, so his life is turned upside down when a surprise that he's...
Prose
The Roles We Play
Two-thirds of today's British Pakistani diaspora trace their origins back to Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, a district that saw mass displacement and migration when it was submerged by the waters of a dam built after Partition.
Sabba Khan's debut graphic memoir explores what identity, belonging and memory...
2021
Children's & Young Adult
Eight Pieces of Silva
Becks is into girls but didn't come out because she was never in. She lives with her mum, stepdad and eighteen-year-old Silva, her stepdad's daughter. Becks and Silva are opposites, but bond over their mutual obsession with K-pop.
When Becks' mum and stepdad go on honeymoon to Japan, Becks and...
Prose
The First Woman
The First Woman follows Kirabo, a twelve-year-old girl growing up in the Ugandan village of Nattetta during the 1970s. Raised by her grandparents and surrounded by a large extended family, Kirabo is haunted by one question: who is her mother, and why did she leave? Determined to uncover the truth,...
2020
Prose
Afropean
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into...
2019
Prose
In Our Mad and Furious City
While Selvon, Ardan, and Yusef organize their lives around soccer, girls, and grime, Caroline and Nelson struggle to overcome pasts that haunt them. Each voice is uniquely insightful, impassioned, and unforgettable, and when stitched together they trace the brutal and vibrant tapestry of today’s...
2018
Prose
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge posted an impassioned argument on her blog about her deep-seated frustration with the way discussions of race and racism were constantly being shut down by those who weren’t affected by it. She gave the post the title: “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People...
2017
Prose
The Bone Readers
Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . .
After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS...