Safiya Sinclair

Oct 24, 2024 | womensprize.com | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Tiya Miles |Bernardine Evaristo |Safiya Sinclair

Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Find out more Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2006Crowned our winner of winners in a public vote for the 25th anniversary of the prize, Half of a Yellow Sun is an iconic must-read book. Set against the brutal backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, this is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race.

Sep 7, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Daniel Finkelstein |Whoopi Goldberg |Patrick Stewart |Safiya Sinclair

“Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is the powerfully told, meticulously researched and deeply humane testimony of how Daniel Finkelstein’s family history was shaped by the brutality, war and totalitarianism of the Nazi and Communist dictatorships. The book connects the threads of the last century in a way that brings home just how recent its horrors were” Read more...

Aug 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Charlotte Mendelson |Frank Cottrell-Boyce |Donal Ryan |Dónal Ryan |Michael Rosen |Safiya Sinclair

Frank Cottrell-Boyce on The Railway Children by E. NesbitI really did not want to come of age. My primary school had a playing field with a lush, unmown border full of cow parsley, nettles and tall grasses. You could find newts and frogs and birds’ nests in there. Why would I want to be cast out of the Garden of Eden? Then, when the rest of my class was exiled to Big School, I was held back and got to do year 6 all over again. I could not believe my luck.

Jun 30, 2024 | dailystarnewstoday.com | Peter Hessler |Safiya Sinclair |Jonathan Eig

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been going up to the Berkshires with my family. The region, located in western Massachusetts, is gorgeous year-round, but it particularly shines in the warmer months. Summer in the Berkshires is near and dear to my heart: It’s where my sister and I went to sleepaway camp, where my husband and I got engaged, and where I’ve spent countless nights sitting with my grandparents on their patio, taking in the sunset over the lake and talking about nothing and everything.

May 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Safiya Sinclair

All English language becomes fresh in the Caribbean mouth. There is nothing the enslaver has given us that we have not reimagined new, made weapon. There is no misfortune we cannot, as we say, tun our hand, mek fashion. This quicksilver sense of ingenuity and battle-worn verve born of necessity to Caribbean people is at the heart of this compelling new novel by Moses McKenzie.Fast by the Hornsis a fascinating depiction of Black immigrant life and Rasta boyhood in 1980s England.