Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is a masterful tapestry of interconnected lives spanning over a century of British history and culture. This novel bursts with energy, humour, and heart as it explores the multifaceted experiences of twelve distinctive characters. A rich narrative ensemble, it captures the voices of mostly Black and British women who navigate the complexities of their...

A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a...

A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. Imagine if the transatlantic slave trade was reversed. Imagine Africans as the masters and Europeans as their slaves... Now meet young Doris, living in a sleepy English cottage. One day she is kidnapped and put aboard a slave ship bound for the New...

The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker Prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win—the first by a Black woman—was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher, and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight...

A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a...

Sparkling with humour and sympathy, Mr Loverman is a novel exploring love, culture, and fear within the context of Britain's older Caribbean community—now a Penguin Essential. Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits...

The smart, sassy coming-of-age story from the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other - now a Penguin Essential. Meet Zuleika: sassy girl about town, former child bride, A-list Roman babe, and black immigrant in ancient Londinium. She knows this city like the back of her hand - its squalor and bustle, its slum tenements and sumptuous villas. But she...

A funny, fabulous tale of two twentieth-century misfits and their adventures across Europe. Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie—artiste, motormouth, ducker, and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on...

Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo's own childhood and family history. The eponymous Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in Woolwich, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her father, Taiwo, is Nigerian, and her mother, Ellen, is white British. They marry in the 1950s, in spite of fierce opposition from Ellen's family,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humour. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the...

Dazzling, brilliant, streetwise, sassy, audacious: The Emperor's Babe has been hailed as one of the most original novels of 2001. Meet Zuleika: sassy girl about town, hellraiser, bored ex-child-bride in Londinium, AD 211. In the place (and time) to be... Through the bustling, hustling city, we follow Zuleika, feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants. Married off to a rich,...