Item category 2: Black & Asian Interests

Brooke is 33, resolutely single and slightly adrift. She wants her work and life to have meaning - and she finds it at the Asher and Carol Jaffee Foundation, where she's tasked with assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the noble quest to give away his hard-earned fortune. When Asher Jaffee ta...

The children of the four Collins sisters - Cassandra, Lela, Suzette and Felice - have a complicated inheritance. It includes unbreakable rules for navigating society, contested stories about their grandparents' early lives, capacious musical talents, and an opal necklace of uncertain origin. In t...

Destiny can't wait to go for her first ever sleepover at her best friend's house. But she also can't help feeling a little worried - they're going to camp outside in the garden - in a tent - but also in the dark! Destiny uses her trusty sketchbook to doodle her ideas and work through her worries....

When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother - terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria - and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades. Back home ...

A group of young, Black British friends navigate their way through the ups and downs of modern London life, in this richly imagined collection of linked stories.

A selection of poems by Maya Angelou, including her inaugural poem for President Clinton, "On the Pulse of the Morning". Other work by the author includes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "Gather Together in My Name", and "I Wouldn't Give Nothing for My Journey Now".

Alex Cross was happy to leave the FBI, but now he can't seem to keep away. When his former partner Sampson calls on him for help to solve a series of brutal rapes, Cross reveals some dark truths. Michael Sullivan, the deadly hitman from his past, has returned, and he has a chilling new plan.

Until the French government declassified documents concerning their ignominious defeat at Dien Bien Phu, Madame Daeng's past had been a well-kept secret. Now Dr Siri's wife is vulnerable and being stalked by a killer. But when Dr Siri whisks her away for a romantic working weekend, they encounter...

The eponomous heroine of this novel is the alter ego of brilliant and beautiful psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba. Atsuko is able to manipulate patient's dreams, even enter them, as an aid to psychoanalysis. When treating private patients, she transforms herself into the guise of Paprika to mask her t...

Spare and unsparing, 'God Help the Child' - the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment - weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the centre: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black sk...