Fiction

It's love and bullets--Dickey style--in this blistering novel about a couple who say yes to big time risks when playing it safe stops paying off... Dmytryk and Cora Knight were a respectable couple with a solid, comfortable life on the affluent side of...

Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, by product But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction   In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was...

This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life...

The world comes crashing down when one of Detective Joe Johnson's enemies orders his family to be killed. Detective Joe Johnson must rely on his partner, Vernon Brown and his hoodlum friends to spoil the murderous plot and face his own demons as he...

In Reconstruction, award-winning writer and musician Johnson delineates the lives of those trodden underfoot by the powerful, and how they rise up. Meet the humans who serve a coterie of vampires in Hawai'i, explore the taxonomy of anger with Black...

  2022 Shortlist, Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardWinner, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in AfricaWinner, 2011 Herman Charles Bosman AwardWinner, Sunday Times Fiction PrizeWinner, The Sunday Times Literary AwardSipho, a 17-year-old from the Umlazi...

A "deeply original" (Elif Batuman), "violently funny" (Myriam Gurba), "brilliant and unforgettable" (Deesha Philyaw) debut about a young lawyer finally confronting her dark past To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story--a dedicated lawyer who...

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco At home they are just sisters, but on stage,...