James McBride

"A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching," Rolling Stone magazine A Guardian best music book of 2016 The music of James Brown was almost a genre in its own right, and he was one of the biggest and most influential...

"I loved this book" BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY "A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community" LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES "THIS is his best book" ANN PATCHETT, author of TOM LAKE "I can't recommend this one highly enough" HARLAN COBEN THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK...

'McBride at his brave and joyous best' New York Times Book Review 'A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places' San Francisco Chronicle An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by a Civil War General now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face...

'I envy those about to discover Miracle at St. Anna for the first time' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Searingly, soaringly beautiful' Baltimore Sun Towards the end of World War Two, four soldiers from the Army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are...

'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web' Washington Post 'Gripping' New York Times In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland's eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves and free blacks. Liz is near death,...

'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists' People 'Just so brilliant' John Green Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856. When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl...

As a boy in Brooklyn, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked her about it, she'd simply say, 'I'm light-skinned.' Later, he wondered if he was different too and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' And when James asked what...

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book • A New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Winner of the 2024 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction From one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2024 Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR/Fresh Air, Washington Post,...

"I loved this book" BONNIE GARMUS "A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community" LOUISE KENNEDY "I can't recommend this one highly enough" HARLAN COBEN "THIS is his best book" ANN PATCHETT THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR BOOK OF THE YEAR IN: The Guardian, New Yorker,...

Deacon King Kong is a New York Times bestseller about community, race, and religion from the National Book Award winner, James McBride. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR, NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST 'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic.' -...