This Black History Month, we’re excited to expand our Black Voices collection with a specially curated set for you, our beloved readers! We believe it’s essential to amplify Black voices and ensure they are heard loud and clear. To start, we’re offering a selection of books that span contemporary perspectives to historical insights. Start with Queenie, a modern classic that resonates with today’s audience, exploring the complexities of identity and belonging. Then, dive into Black and British, an essential non-fiction work that highlights the importance of understanding our history through the lens of Black voices, stories that must be shared and celebrated. We also have some beloved favourites to enrich your reading experience. The Color Purple is a powerful tale of resilience and empowerment that continues to inspire readers. Plus, don’t miss Keep the Receipts by The Receipts Media Ltd, a popular non-fiction book from our favourite podcasters that offers fresh perspectives and engaging conversations. Let’s celebrate Black voices together this month and beyond! Titles in this set:1. The Color Purple: by Alice Walker (Fiction)2. Queenie: by Candice Carty-Williams (Fiction)3. Black and British: A Forgotten History: by David Olusoga (Non-Fiction)4. Keep the Receipts: by The Receipts Media Ltd (Non-Fiction)Description:The Color PurpleSet in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves.QueenieQueenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryIn this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. This edition, fully revised and updated, features a new chapter encompassing the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, events which put black British history at the centre of urgent national debate. Black and British is vivid confirmation that black history can no longer be kept separate and marginalised. It is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation and it belongs to us all. Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. Unflinching, confronting taboos, and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.Keep the ReceiptsJoin your girl Tolly T, Audrey, formerly known as Ghana's Finest, and your mamacita Milena Sanchez as they get super honest about their life experiences and l