Lillie Patterson A biography of the Baptist minister, focusing on his leadership role in the civil rights movement January 1, 1989 by Facts on File

Bernice RubensJack has been unfaithful, and Ruth also tries adultery, but doesn't like it - all she wants to do is repair their marriage. Then, on a free trip to...

Lewis NkosiThe novel tells the story, in the first person, of a young black male ex-student's obsession with a young English woman, Veronica Slater, whom he encounters on the segregated...

Sol T PlaatjeMhudi, the first full-length novel in English by a black South African, was written in the late 1910s. A romantic epic set in the first half of the...

James McBride The author of the classic The Color of Water - the international bestseller with more than a million and a quarter copies sold in the United States alone...

Wilbur Smith   Follow up to BIRDS OF PREY and continuing the saga of the Courteney family. Set at the start of the 18th century in England, East Africa and...

Alexander McCall Smith   Botswana PI Precious Ramotswe investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official, and the moral character of four beauty contestants. When her...

Lawrence DurrellMountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the...

Toni Morrison A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning...

Jennifer Teege An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.In this powerful...

Paul Theroux In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how...

Ahuva Gray   When people looked at Delores Gray, they saw a dynamic corporate executive, a devoted African-American minister, an American success story. But there was another side to this...