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Using powerful stories from his experiences growing up in Hackney, forming the band Rudimental with his best friends and playing semi-professional football, Leon Rolle, aka Locksmith, wants to show you that not only are you good enough, but that you too can achieve the impossible. With chapters e...

Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of displacement are felt across generations....

Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of displacement are felt across generations....

What is the experience of black men in Britain? With continued conversation around British identity, racism and diversity, there is no better time to explore this question and give black British men a platform to answer it. This title is that platform. Including essays from top poets, writers, mu...

This is a novel-in-verse which charts the life of its young protagonist from birth to adulthood, and explores questions of identity, belonging, addiction and dependency, sexuality, violence, family, and religion. It is also an interrogation of the events that led to the author's own mental breakd...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Heartbreaking, important and original.’ Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS‘Derek Owusu’s writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough. Once you lock on to his words, it is hard to break eye contact. A beautiful meditation on childhood, coming of age,...