The US poet’s debut novel is a big, ambitious multi-generational family saga, ranging from colonial slavery into present times, set in the deep south. The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, 4th Estate The return of an American original: in Williams’s first novel for more than 20 years, a teenager roams a corporatised landscape as environmental apocalypse bites. It’s 1967, and a woman’s suburban existence is rocked when she meets a younger man, in the British author’s story of intellectual and sexual awakening. The follow-up to A Little Life explores the urge to protect what we love across three eras: a genderfluid 19th century, the height of the Aids crisis and a totalitarian, pandemic-ridden future. We Need Snowflakes: In Defence of the Sensitive, The Angry and the Offended by Hannah Jewell, CoronetĪn incisive look at the reality of “woke” culture, and who gains from demonising a generation. The US playwright’s witty and moving memoir of what happened when her face was paralysed by Bell’s palsy. Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl, Bodley Head
Not your average writer’s memoir, this one takes in wanderlust, independence and the creative life. I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg, Serpent’s Tail This manifesto is published alongside a new edition of Davis’s 1974 memoir this month three more books by Davis are to come. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie, Hamish Hamilton The novelist and doctor shares her story of love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis.Ī bolition. Photograph: Noam Galai/WireImageĮverything Is True by Roopa Farooki, Bloomsbury Angela Davis attends the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017.
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