Item category 2: Black & Asian Interests

Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong - so she's given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It's time for Eve t...

Life in the Swamplands is tough for twelve-year-old orphan Adia. Her aunt and uncle believe she is an ogbanje, a demon-possessed child thought to bring misfortune. And when Adia manifests mysterious powers, accidentally destroying her village, she starts to think they might be right. Adia flees t...

Ali is sure that he will have the best show-and-tell in the class - his magic tricks! But Ali gets flustered when one after another, his tricks all fail. How can he overcome his embarrassment? Sometimes, a magician just needs a little help!

It's cooking day with Dadi. Ali is excited, but Fateh is getting in the way as usual. Why does Fateh keep blowing in Ali's face? But when Dadi brings out the delicious treats, Ali realises that his little brother might be a lot smarter than he thought!

Bibi Hossain was supposed to get her first kiss this summer but her has one arcane rule: no boys until your sister gets married. Just when Bibi thinks she'll be stuck spending her summer at their fried chicken chain her oh-so-perfect older sister Halima drops a bombshell: she's marrying the heir ...

If art imitates life then Ashley Walters is living proof. From his explosive performance as the drug dealer Dushane in Top Boy to his turn as an undercover detective in Bulletproof, to his time as a member of one of Britain's most notorious music collectives, So Solid Crew, Ashley's career has al...

In the early sixties, Victor 'Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill - then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman. Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in L...

'Azúcar' is set on a fictional Spanish-speaking Caribbean island and traces the stories of two residents with differing connections to the land. Exploring what it means to belong to a place, it is a narrative replete with music and invention. Both satire and romance, it is the work of a prose st...

Best friends Shay and Frankie, and their team AC United, are back for another football season, another year older, and eager for a win. The duo soon realise that nothing ever stays the same, and change is a part of life whether they like it or not - both on and off the pitch. With new team member...

Ameena can't wait for her aunty's wedding. She is wearing a brand-new salwar kameez - the layers of floaty fabric adorned with pretty patterns make her feel like a princess. But when someone comments on her 'pyjamas', she loses all confidence, fearing that her friends might not accept her traditi...