“Maya Angelou, you are really so great. You really are our Shakespeare, and I thank you for this chance. I am going to do it well and you are going to be proud of me’ Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou p. 161 On reading that above passage, it summed up the feelings I […]
I came from a line of women who bore a single child and were dead before it’s eighteenth birthday A Cupboard Full of Coats is the debut novel by Londoner Yvette Edwards. It is set over a weekend and examines both the happenings in the lead up to the murder of Jinx’s mother 16 years […]
The Flavours of Love is the latest novel from the internationally bestselling author, Dorothy Koomson, who brought us The Ice Cream Girls and The Rose Petal Beach. It tells the story of Saffron Mackleroy, a recently bereaved widow 18 months after the murder of her husband. The book conveyed the emotions one experiences when they […]
This book came highly recommended by various members of the Let’s Read book club, and had been part of the “must read’ list for close to two years. The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill, tells the story of Aminatta Diallo, from her innocent childhood (in what is now known as Mali) through her life […]
The Anthology of Rap was the suggestion for the September book – which proved to be a controversial choice. Controversial as some didn’t think rap was an appropriate choice for book club. However, when we explored the contents the subject matter also proved controversial due to some of the inclusions and exclusions. The book went […]
Elaine Adu-Poku 