We’re again with our really helpful month-to-month reads!
On this month’s checklist you’ll see books printed in January, February and up-and-coming releases for this month. So try TBB’s Lit Listing.
Our number of books consists of the extremely anticipated Dream Depend by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie we even have releases from Natasha Brown, poet Ben Okri and Dorothy Koomson so that you can add to your studying checklist.
Dream Depend by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Alone in America through the pandemic, journey author Chiamaka ponders her previous lovers and her regrets. Her finest good friend Zikora is a lawyer with a golden observe report till, heartbroken, she turns for assist to the particular person she would least anticipate. Working in Nigeria’s monetary world, Omelogor begins to query how effectively she is aware of herself. Proudly elevating her daughter in America, Chiamaka’s housekeeper Kadiatou out of the blue faces a hardship that threatens the whole lot she has labored for.
Publish Date: 4th March 2025 | Writer: Harper Collins UK.
Universality by Natasha Brown
Bear in mind – phrases are your weapons, they’re your instruments, your forex.
On a Yorkshire farm, a person is brutally bludgeoned with a stable gold bar.A plucky younger journalist units out to uncover the reality surrounding the assault, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist motion. She solves the thriller, however her viral longread exposé raises extra questions than it solutions.
Universality is a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of fact and energy. By a voyeuristic lens, it focuses on phrases: what we are saying, how we are saying it, and what we actually imply.The follow-up novel to Natasha Brown’s Meeting is a compellingly nasty celebration of the spectacular drive of language. It dares you to look away.
Publish Date: 4th March 2025 | Writer: Random Home.
Madame Sosostris & the Pageant for the Damaged-Hearted by Ben Okri
What do you do when your coronary heart has been made a wasteland by love?
Viv, who’s within the Home of Lords, had the thought for the pageant on the 20 th anniversary of the day her first husband left her. Six months later, crowds descend on the grounds of a dreamlike chateau within the South of France, avidly awaiting the expertise of a lifetime, Viv’s inaugural Pageant for the Damaged-Hearted.
Everyone seems to be in fancy costume. Nobody is aware of who anybody is. They wander the gorgeous woods with only one evening to vary the whole lot. And to crown all of it, a really particular visitor is anticipated: world-renowned clairvoyant and fortune-teller Madame Sosostris, generally known as the wisest lady in Europe, and never seen because the pages of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. She is going to attend for one evening solely.
However will she truly seem in any respect, or will Viv’s rigorously orchestrated pageant fall to items? Will Viv and her husband make it by the evening? Will anybody else?
Hearts might be healed, and hearts damaged, however no one will go away this pageant precisely as they arrived.
Publication Date:6 March 2025
Writer: Random Home
Publish Date: sixth March 2025 | Writer: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Zee Zee The Humble Bee by Michael Obiora
Zee Zee is head and shoulders above her associates on the subject of flying the quickest.
Can she discover the stability between celebrating her skills, and humility?
Zee Zee The Humble Bee is a enjoyable rhyming story in regards to the joys of studying, instructing, and being humble. The creator, Michael Obiora explains in regards to the writing of this e-book: Once I was eleven years outdated I used to be strolling down the hall of my secondary faculty.
Publish Date: twenty seventh March 2025 | Writer: Troubador Publishing.
Give Him To Me by Dorothy Koomson
Robyn ‘Avril’ Managa was twelve when she witnessed her controlling and abusive father homicide her mom. Put into care whereas her well-connected father was given a brand new id in Witness Safety, Robyn has lived with the trauma of that day ever since.
Now in her twenties, Robyn has determined she needs a household reunion – so is killing individuals linked to her father’s case, leaving on their our bodies the word: GIVE HIM TO ME.
Dr Kez Lanyon known as onto the case. However can Kez get into Robyn’s thoughts earlier than she kills once more? Or is she about to turn out to be Avril’s newest sufferer?
Publish Date: thirteenth February 2025 | Writer: Headline Publishing Group.
Salutation Highway by Salma Ibrahim
Twenty-three-year-old Sirad Ali is a lady adrift. Deserted by her father in childhood, doing her finest to help her mom and youthful brother of their small flat in South London, she will’t assist however surprise if that is the life she actually needs.
One morning, Sirad boards her bus to work and finds herself transported to an alternate timeline in present-day Mogadishu. Over the course of a single day, underneath the sweltering East African solar, Sirad should deal with a misplaced actuality. There she encounters an nearly unrecognizable model of her household and comes head to head together with her double, Ubah – the girl she may have been, had her mother and father by no means fled to London through the Somali Civil Battle.
Again dwelling in Greenwich, Sirad should go on with life, consumed by all she now is aware of. However then Ubah mysteriously seems in London, and Sirad begins to know that nothing will ever be the identical once more . . .
‘We could look the identical, however I’m not you . . . We share nothing however a mirrored image within the mirror’.
Publish Date: thirteenth February 2025 | Writer: Mantle.
Unusual Seashore by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
The debut assortment from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Unusual Seashore illuminate the physique as a porous panorama throughout which existential dramas, filial fractures and sexual reckonings happen.
The gathering ventures throughout the identical ‘Atlantic Ocean’ as Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, which is identical ‘Atlantic Ocean’ in Lowell’s Life Research, to disclose a queer consciousness deeply steeped in poetic traditions of nuanced confession and shifting abstraction.
Publish Date: thirtieth January 2025 | Writer: Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Til Loss of life by Busayo Matuluko
Save the date . . . for a killer marriage ceremony!
True-crime-obsessed Lara Oyinlola is heading to Lagos for her favorite cousin, Dérin’s, marriage ceremony. It’s going to be a vacation full of glitzy dress-fittings, glamorous events and, in fact, the star-studded occasion of the 12 months.
However the whole lot isn’t excellent in Dérin’s world. She’s been receiving nameless threats telling her to cancel the marriage . . . or face dire penalties.
That is the second Lara’s been ready for: put her sleuthing information to work and resolve a real-life thriller. As Lara investigates, what she doesn’t anticipate to uncover is an online of secrets and techniques, malicious crimes, and close to‑demise encounters which promise to tear the household aside for good . . .
With sinister secrets and techniques, bitchy bridesmaids, annoying exes, and a gossip-loving novice detective, this gripping thriller thriller from a standout debut creator and award-nominated BookTokker can have readers hooked.
Publish Date: thirtieth January 2025 | Writer: Simon & Schuster.
Crimson Sky within the Morning, Poet’s Warning by Alex Wharton
From Poems that describe ‘Wild Boys’ who reside alone within the woods to poems about ‘Time’ and assembly an astronaut, there’s something right here for everybody! These poems mirror on nature’s happenings, by commentary and expertise, however not forgetting to move the reader to many magical, musical and imaginative worlds.
A companion piece to Crimson Sky at Evening, Poet’s Delight printed precisely a 12 months earlier.
“A phenomenal little assortment that packs a punch! Infinitely readable and shareable poems to make you smile, mirror, and dream.” Rashmi Sirdeshpande
“His poems chime and sing from the web page.” AF Harrold
‘Massive-hearted, humorous and considerate, Alex Wharton takes the strange world round us and makes it magical.’ Claire Fayers
‘These poems are a real delight! Heat, playful and filled with perception – a deal with for readers of all ages.’ Kate Wakeling
“A pleasant celebration and introduction to the pure world.” Julia Eccleshare
Publish Date: twenty third January 2025 | Writer: Firefly Press.
The Re-Write by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Temi and Wale meet in London. They flirt, date, meet one another’s associates.
. . . Then Wale dumps Temi to go on Love Villa.
As an alternative of giving in to heartbreak, Temi throws herself into her dream: writing. She’s inside touching distance of a e-book deal that will resolve all her issues. However publishers maintain passing on her novel and payments nonetheless need to be paid. So, when the chance to ghost-write a star autobiography arises, Temi finds herself accepting.
And, in fact, the superstar seems to be Wale . . .
Has an excessive amount of time handed . . . or simply sufficient to spark an entire new form of relationship?
Publish Date: thirteenth February 2025 | Writer: Penguin Books.