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The Blurb On The Back:

I am a Belle. I control beauty.

In the opulent world of Orléans, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle’s powers can make them beautiful.

Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle - the one chosen by the queen to live in the royal palace and be recognised as the most talented Belle in the land.

But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be. Behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets, and Camellia soon learns that her powers may be far greater - and far darker - than she ever imagined.

When the queen asks Camellia to save the ailing princess by using her powers in unintended ways, she faces an impossible decision: protect herself and the way of the Belles, or risk her own life, and change the world forever …

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The Verdict:

Dhonielle Clayton’s YA fantasy (the first in a trilogy) has interesting ideas about the power of beauty and society’s obsession with it. Unfortunately the pacing was far too slow, the plot relies very heavily on contrivance (with Carmellia behaving foolishly when needed) and the characterisation just isn’t interesting or consistent enough to hold my attention notably the “friendship” between Amber and Carmellia, which never convinces.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions.

In the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming change. Entire continents have been resettled; there are billions more of us; the jobs done by countless people would be unrecognisable to their predecessors; scientific change has transformed us all in confusing, terrible and miraculous ways.

Anatol Lieven’s major new book provides the frame that has long been needed to understand how we should react to climate change. This is a vast challenge, but we have often in the past had to deal with such challenges; the industrial revolution, major wars and mass migration have seen mobilisations of human energy on the greatest scale. Just as previous generations had to face the unwanted and unpalatable, so do we.

In a series of incisive, compelling interventions, Lieven shows how in this emergency our crucial building block is the nation state. The drastic action required both to change our habits and protect ourselves can be carried out not through some vague globalism but through maintaining social cohesion and through our current governmental, fiscal and military structures.

This is a book which will provoke innumerable discussions.

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The Verdict:

Anatol Lieven is a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a Fellow of the New American Foundation in Washington DC. This book posits that a civic nationalist approach based on patriotism and common necessity is needed to tackle climate change rather than an internationalist approach but he’s more focused on what Greens and Liberals should give up than on getting US right-wingers on board and the constant criticism of immigration grates.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Welcome to The House of Serendipity, where friendships are fashioned and destinies designed!

Meet Sylvia Cartwright, the 1920s’ Eloise Bridgerton, determined to break societal conventions. And Myrtle Mathers, a maid with more ambition than Downton’s Daisy. They know that the perfect outfit can make dreams come true, and their dazzling designs are the talk of 1920s London …

So when Agapantha Portland-Prince wants to escape her glamorous debutante ball for a life of adventure, it’s their magical talents she needs. But can the girls make their secret dreams a reality, or will this be the most stylish scandal of the century?

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The Verdict:

Lucy Ivison’s historical novel for readers aged 9+ (the first in a series) will appeal to budding fashionistas and fans of Downton Abbey and features some great illustrations by Catharine Collingridge that respect the period fashions while making them seem contemporary. The story itself moves at a good pace and while Myrtle and Sylvia’s friendship hits expected beats and the end is a bit rush, I cared enough about them to want to read the sequel.

SEQUINS AND SECRETS was released in the United Kingdom on 10th June 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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The height of Mount Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt For Mount Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world’s highest mountain. It’s a tale of high drama, of larger-than-life-characters - George Everest, Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, Lord Curzon, Edward Whymper - and a first quiet heroes - Alexander Kelly’s, the 13th Dalia Lama, and Charles Bell.

A story that traverses the Alps, the Himalayas, Nepal and Tibet, the British Empire (especially British India and the Raj), the Anglo-Russian rivalry known as The Great Game, the disastrous First Afghan War, and the phenomenal Survey of India - it is far bigger than simply the tallest mountain in the world. Encountering spies, war, political intrigues, and hundreds of mules, camels, bullocks, yaks, and two zebrules, Craig Storti uncovers the fascinating and still largely overlooked saga of all that led up to that moment in late June of 1921 when two English climbers, George Mallory and Guy Bullock, became the first westerners - and almost certainly the first human beings - to set foot on Mount Everest and thereby claimed the last remaining major prize in the history of exploration.

With 2021 bringing the 100th anniversary of that year, most Everest chronicles have dealt with the climbing history of the mountain, with all that happened after 1921. The Hunt For Mount Everest is the seldom-told story of all that happened before.

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The Verdict:

Craig Storti is a consultant and trainer in inter-cultural communications. This engrossing book deals with the discovery (by Westerners) of Mount Everest, tracking the efforts made to identify where it was and its height up until the first expedition to scale it in 1921 and taking in Britain’s imperialist interests in India and the wider region (including its rivalry with Russia) and the emergence of mountaineering as a sport.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Round these ends, it’s hard to hold on to your dreams.

Life’s a constant hustle for Mo. Her mum’s boyfriend Lloyd is just another man who likes to beat down women; the South Crong streets are fraught with hazards and nasty G’s; and when it comes to matters of the heart … she’s still hung up on Sam. No wonder she’s vexed so much of the time.

Thank God her sisters, Elaine and Naomi, are on her side.

But when badness goes down and a life is let handing in the balance, Mo has to face her hot urge for revenge … and she might end up losing more than she wins.

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The Verdict:

The third in Alex Wheatle’s YA CRONGTON SEQUENCE has a wonderful narrative voice that reads authentically and does a great job of portraying female teenage friendship and the chaotic and difficult life on an estate. I was less convinced by some of Mo’s decisions in the final quarter of the book, mainly because I needed a bit more consideration of her thinking, but it’s still a good read and I will definitely check out the rest of the Sequence.

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A kaleidoscopic history of Black performance, from Josephine Baker to the Midwest punk scene, through sport, sit-coms, stand-up and more.

In A Little Devil In America, music critic and poet Hanif Abdurraqib weaves a unique and intimate history of Black performance, in which culture, politics and lived experience collide. Taking readers from mid-century Paris to the moon, via dive bars, Broadway, and a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio, Abdurraqib illuminates the poignancy and power of Black performance, whether the stage is vast - as in Beyoncé’s Super Bowl show - or small, as for a schoolyard fistfight. Each of these moments, Abdurraqib reveals, has layers of resonance in Black and white culture, the politics of American empire, and his own personal history of grief and love.

Filled with sharp insight, humour and heart, and infused with the lyricism and rhythm of the musicians the author loves, A Little Devil In America is a celebration of Black performance as it has unfolded and endured to shape individual lives and entire cultures.

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The Verdict:

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist and cultural critic. This fascinating collection of interconnected essays (organised into 4 movements) reviews different types of Black performance in the arts and sport by incorporating commentary on specific performers from Beyoncé to Dave Chappelle and Mike Tyson together with examples from Abdurraqib’s own life to contextualise Black performance within Black lived experience to moving effect.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Dazzling with imagination, brimming with passion and crackling with wit, The City We Became is a modern masterpiece of culture, identity, magic and myth in contemporary New York City.

Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths; others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She’s got six - and all six will be called to arms in the greatest battle the city has ever fought.

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The Verdict:

N. K. Jemisin’s urban fantasy (the first in a trilogy) is a smartly imagined rejoinder to H. P. Lovecraft’s racism by using his concept of “eldritch horror” and updating it to the ever-present problem of racism, “gentrification” and white privilege while making clear that New York’s strength comes from its vibrant, cosmopolitan population. It’s a clever, vivid read that really conveys the city’s vibe and I look forward to reading the sequel.

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Suddenly, a single cry rose from inside the crowd.
“Kill the black one first.”
There was a roar. Guttural, like laughter, like fury, the fury of the mob.

A story about race, identity, belonging and displacement, Kill The Black One First is the memoir from Michael Fuller - Britain’s first ever black Chief Constable, whose life and career is not only a stark representation of race relations in the UK, but also a unique morality tale of how humanity deals with life’s injustices.

Michael Fuller was born to Windrush-generation Jamaican immigrants in 1959, and experienced a meteoric career in policing, from the beat to the Brixton inferno, through cutting-edge detective work, to the frontline of drug-related crime and violence on London’s most volatile estates. He took a pivotal role in the formation of Operation Trident, which tackled gun crime and gang warfare in the Afro-Caribbean community, and was later appointed as Chief Constable of Kent Police.

Kill The Black One First is an unflinching account of a life in policing during a tumultuous period of race relations throughout the UK, and a tale of how the human spirit can endure cultural barriers, prejudice and race hate.

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The Verdict:

A police officer for 35 years, Michael Fuller became Chief Constable of Kent Police in 2004 (the first black officer to attain this rank) and then Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service. This is a guarded memoir that illustrates what an intelligent, accomplished, driven man he is, rising from a childhood spent in care and racism within the Metropolitan Police but chooses to be silent on institutional racism and how to change it.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Help.
I pick up the envelope … As I rip down the sides, there’s loads of paper bursting out; stuck on flowers, dandelions, roses …

Spey recently received two surprises. The first: his ex-prisoner dad turning up unannounced, and the second: a mysterious package containing torn-up paper flowers.

Spey instantly recognises it as a collage he made with his old friend Dee, and decides she must be in danger, but there are no clues to her whereabouts.

There’s only one person he knows who can help to track her down …

On a road trip like no other, will Spey and his dad find Dee, before it’s too late?

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The Verdict:

Patrice Lawrence’s 5th YA novel is a well-plotted, self-standing contemporary thriller about county lines drug dealing and absentee fathers that never feels judgmental. The first person narrative voices for both Spey and Dee are pitch perfect (particularly Spey’s wry comments about being the light-skinned, black son of a single white mother) and his awkward interactions with Benni (last seen in EIGHT PIECES OF SILVA) ring true.

SPLINTERS OF SUNSHINE was released in the United Kingdom on 19th August 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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After Kenneth W. Warren’s What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What Is African American Literature?

The idea of African American literature may be much more than literature written by authors who identify as “Black”. What Is African American Literature? focuses on feeling as form in order to show that African American literature is an archive of feelings, a tradition of the tension between uncontainable black affect and rigid historical structure. Margo N. Crawford argues that textual production of affect (such as blush, vibration, shiver, twitch, and wink) reveals that African American literature keeps reimagining a black collective nervous system.

Crawford foregrounds the “idea” of African American literature and uncovers the “black feeling world” co-created by writers and readers. Rejecting the notion that there are no formal lines separating African American literature and a broader American literary tradition, Crawford contends that the distinguishing feature of African American literature is a “moodscape” that is as stable as electricity. Presenting a fresh perspective on the affective atmosphere of African American literature, this compelling text frames central questions around the “idea” of African American literature, shows the limits of historicism in explaining the mood of African American literature and addresses textual production in the creation of the African American literary tradition.

Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Manifestos series, What is African American Literature? is a significant addition to scholarship in the field. Professors and students of American literature, African American literature, and Black Studies will find this book an invaluable source of fresh perspectives and new insights on America’s black literature tradition.

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The Verdict:

Margo N. Crawford is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. This is an academic text aimed at those studying African American literature and written in an esoteric style that assumes a familiarity with black authors, which I sadly lack. As such it did go largely over my head but that’s not the author’s fault and I came away with a list of books and authors who I want to read.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Four unlikely friends.
A shocking new murder.
It’s the following Thursday.

Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with who she has a long history. He needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster and a very real threat to his life.

As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus?

But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer, before the killer finds them?

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The Verdict:

The second in Richard Osman’s THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES is another thoroughly entertaining crime novel that draws on Elizabeth’s espionage past but has something to say about finding love in middle age and the fears that come with old age. The plot slightly strains to unite its various strands at the end but Osman pulls it off with aplomb while providing some laugh out loud moments such that I’m already very keen to get book number 3.

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Twice As Hard is an exploration of Black Identity in the working world and a blueprint for success. You will learn what obstacles limit opportunity for Black professional progress, how to understand and overcome racial stereotypes, be productive, find purpose, and ultimately thrive in business.

Authors Opeyemi and Raphael Sofoluke explore their own personal brand of ethics, the challenges they have faced in their careers, and the learnings they took from them, before inviting other successful business people in a broad range of industries to share their experiences and the practical measures they take to realise their goals, too.

Featuring tips on entrepreneurship, as well as insights on the corporate world, this book highlights the positive advancements made in recent years, and equips individuals and businesses with the tools they need to continue to progress.

Twice As Hard aims to empower and inspire Black professionals, get everyone thinking and talking about their actions, and continue the fight for a truly inclusive, understanding society.

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The Verdict:

Raphael Sofoluke is the founder of the UK Black Business Show and UK Black Business Week. His wife Opeyemi Sofoluke is Lead Regional Diversity and Inclusion Program Manager at a “Big Four” tech company. This book is essential for Black people navigating the corporate world or developing their own entrepreneurial brand and also vital for white people who want to be better, constructive allies to Black colleagues and entrepreneurs.

TWICE AS HARD was released in the United Kingdom on 3rd June 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Six of the biggest stars of YA bring all the electricity of love to a collection of charming, hilarious and heartbreaking tales that shine the brightest light through the dark

When a heatwave plunges New York City into darkness, sparks fly for thirteen teenagers caught up in the blackout.

A first meeting.
Long-time friends.
Bitter exes.
And maybe the beginning of something new.

When the lights go out, people reveal hidden truths. Love blossoms, friendship transforms, and new possibilities take flight.

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The Verdict:

This anthology of YA romance short stories by Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk, Dhonielle Clayton, Angie Thomas and Nicola Yoon features an all Black cast that inter-connect to form a wider novel with excellent pace, crackling dialogue, LGB representation and aspiration that does not ignore reality. There were a couple of points where I didn’t get at first how characters connected but this is an enjoyable read if you like romance.

BLACKOUT was released in the United Kingdom on 24th June 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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”Someone in your life has died, and they are not coming back.” What a HUGE thing to say.

Grief can feel like a boat ride on a stormy ocean, but what if you had a lighthouse to guide you safely to shore? You Will Be Okay will help you navigate through the hard emotions you feel when someone you know has died, with practical activities, stories from others who have been through it and tips on how to talk about your grief. There is no right or wrong way to grieve, you just need to find your way.

You will be okay.

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The Verdict:

Julie Stokes is a clinical psychologist and executive leadership coach with a background in palliative care, who founded a grief support service called Winston’s Wish to support bereaved children. This is a deeply compassionate, well written and timely book that’s sensitively illustrated by Laurène Boglio and offers practical guidance to children aged 9+ on how to handle a bereavement, including how to process and talk about their emotions.

YOU WILL BE OKAY was released in the United Kingdom on 19th August 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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A magical adventure by the light of the moon.

Kitty is preparing for her school’s concern. As a superhero-in-training with cat-like superpowers, Kitty can do all sorts of marvellous things. But as a regular girl, Kitty is terrified to sing in front of everyone at school. On top of that, Figaro hurts himself during a dangerous rooftop chase and his birthday plans are ruined.

Kitty will surely need the help of her fur-midable cat crew to rescue Figaro’s birthday and overcome her stage-fright.

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The Verdict:

The 8th in Paula Harrison and Jenny Løvlie’s delightful illustrated superhero series for readers aged 6+ is another charming affair that sees Kitty having to learn a whole new way of being brave while also convincing the vain Figaro that he should celebrate his birthday with his friends. It’s full of kitties, friendship and some naughty behaviour that younger readers will thoroughly enjoy.

KITTY AND THE STARLIGHT SONG was released in the United Kingdom on 2nd September 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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A new look at the future of life on Earth by the great scientific visionary of our age.

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene- has already begun.

New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and they will regard us as we now regard plants - as desperately slow acting and thinking creatures. But this will not be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet imagined by sci-if writers and film-makers. These hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend them from the increasing heat of the sun as much as we do. And Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project.

It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. He does not think there are intelligent aliens, so we are the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos. Maybe, he speculates, the novacene could even be the beginning of a process that will finally lead to intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At the age 100, James Lovelock has produced an important and compelling new work.

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The Verdict:

James Lovelock is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the originator of the Gaia Theory that the Earth is a self-regulating organism. Bryan Appleyard is a journalist. This is an interesting but light weight and contradictory book that asserts humanity is entering a new age called the novacene where cyborgs (essentially AI machines) will become dominant but, due to the nature of Gaia, will partner with humans due to their equal dependence on Earth.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Will you look her in the eyes, just before she dies?

I, Killer has posted two photos of his first victim online - Before Death and After Death. They’ve gone viral before DCI Fenton’s team even discovers the body.

Soon, another victim’s photo is similarly posted … and so begins the killer’s following.

DCI Fenton is determined to discover the identity of I, Killer. Then the murderer makes the hunt personal, and Fenton’s search becomes a matter of life of death for him and his daughter.

But as I, Killer’s body-count rises, his number of online followers is growing - and he loves to give his fans what they want …

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The Verdict:

Max Manning’s crime thriller is a predictable affair with plodding dialogue and which leaves no cliche unturned, relies on the main characters acting idiotically to suit the plot and reduces the female characters to little more than corpses and plot devices. Fenton and Blake are drawn in broad terms while remaining oddly leaden so I couldn’t empathise with either. This seems to be the first in a planned series but I will not be reading on.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass Observation since 1981 to explore the social and cultural history of late-twentieth-century Britain. Prompted by thrice-yearly open-ended questionnaires, Mass Observation’s volunteers wrote about their political attitudes, religious beliefs, work, childhoods, education, friendships, marriages, sex lives, mid-life crises, ageing - the whole range of human emotion, feeling, attitudes, and experience. At the core of the book are seven ‘biographical essays’: intimate portraits of individual lives set in the context of the shift towards a more tolerant and permissive society from the 1960s, and the rise of Thatcherite neo-liberalism as the structures of Britain’s post-war settlement crumbles from the later 1970s.

The mass observers featured in the book, four women and three men, are drawn from across the social spectrum - wife of a small businessman, teacher, social worker, RAF wife, mechanic, lorry driver, banker: all active and forceful characters with strong opinions and lives crowded with struggle and drama. The honesty and frankness with which they wrote about themselves takes us below the surface of public life to the efforts of ‘ordinary’, but exceptionally articulate and self-reflective, people to make sense of their lives in rapidly changing times.

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The Verdict:

James Hinton is Professor Emeritus at Warwick University with expertise on 20th century British social history. Using 7 contributors to the Mass Observation project (which has been running since 1981) this absorbing and moving book assesses attitudes to the societal and economic changes of the 80s and 90s (albeit with caveats as to the reliability of the opinions expressed given that it’s a self-reporting project) and made me want to read more.

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Disliked. Bullied. Framed. But I’m not going to let that stop me …

Most of the students at Middlesfield Prep don’t look like Donte. And they don’t like him either. When Donte is suspended from school and arrested, framed for something he didn’t do, he knows it would have never happened to high lighter-skinned brother, Trey.

Terrified, and searching for a place where he belongs, Donte discovered the sport of fencing. And he’s good at it. Very good.

But when he must fence the very boy who framed him, there is far more at stake than just a trophy. Donte must fight not only his bullies, but an entire system that has never treated him fairly because of the colour of his skin.

Powerful and emotionally gripping, this is a story about one boy’s path to finding his own voice in the fight against racism.

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The Verdict:

Jewell Parker Rhodes’s contemporary novel about racism for children aged 9+ is a blazing indictment of the unfairness of racism and the role that privilege and wealth play in producing unequal outcomes for black children compared with white children. The plot has shades of THE KARATE KID, the scene cuts are a little jumpy and Trey and Donte’s relationship needed more tension but this is a strong and sadly necessary read that is worth your time.

BLACK BROTHER, BLACK BROTHER was released in the United Kingdom on 13th May 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top.

Friedman and Laurison show that a powerful ‘class pay gap’ exists in Britain’s elite occupations. Even when those from working-class backgrounds make it into prestigious jobs, they earn, on average, 16% less than colleagues from privileged backgrounds. But why is this the case? Drawing on 200 interviews across four case studies - television, accountancy, architecture, and acting - they explore the complex barriers facing the upwardly mobile.

This is a rich, ambitious book that demands we take seriously not just the glass but also the class ceiling.

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The Verdict:

Sam Friedman is Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Daniel Laurison is Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College. This is an absolutely fascinating book that really resonated with me about the role class and privilege play in social mobility and the role homophily still plays in career progression using case studies and interviews in an anonymised accountancy firm, TV channel, acting and an architecture firm.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
Climate Change And The Nation State by Anatol Lieven
Sequins And Secrets by Lucy Ivison
The Hunt For Mount Everest by Craig Storti
Straight Outta Crongton by Alex Wheatle
A Little Devil In America: In Praise Of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
Kill The Black One First by Michael Fuller
Splinters Of Sunshine by Patrice Lawrence
What Is African American Literature? by Margo N. Crawford
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Twice As Hard by Opeyemi Sofoluke and Raphael Sofoluke
Blackout - Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany Jackson, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk, Angie Thomas, Nicole Yoon
You Will Be Okay by Julie Stokes and Laurène Boglio
Kitty And The Starlight Song by Paula Harrison and Jenny Løvlie
Novacene: The Coming Age Of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock and Bryan Appleyard
Now You See by Max Manning
Seven Lives From Mass Observation by James Hinton
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays To Be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison

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The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

Climate Change And The Nation State by Anatol Lieven

Sequins And Secrets by Lucy Ivison

The Hunt For Mount Everest by Craig Storti

Straight Outta Crongton by Alex Wheatle

A Little Devil In America: In Praise Of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

Kill The Black One First by Michael Fuller

Splinters Of Sunshine by Patrice Lawrence

What Is African American Literature? by Margo N. Crawford

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Twice As Hard by Opeyemi Sofoluke and Raphael Sofoluke

Blackout - Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany Jackson, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk, Angie Thomas, Nicole Yoon

You Will Be Okay by Julie Stokes and Laurène Boglio

Kitty And The Starlight Song by Paula Harrison and Jenny Løvlie

Novacene: The Coming Age Of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock and Bryan Appleyard

Now You See by Max Manning

Seven Lives From Mass Observation by James Hinton

Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays To Be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison