IF YOU haven’t always made time to read, the beginning of the year is as good a time to foster the habit as any, and we’ve got four for 2024 you may be interested in.
Nikki Giovanni – Poems 1968-2020
YOU CAN’T get your hands on it just yet but be excited about the fact that later this year Penguin Classics will be publishing a major new career-spanning selection of Nikki Giovanni’s poetry from 1968 to the present day.
This is a comprehensive selection of her most important poetic works across 50 years and 15 collections, carefully curated by her long-term partner, writer and professor Virginia Fowler. Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than 60 years.
When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately became one of the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Now considered a living legend, this is the first new selection since the late 1990s and offers readers a chance to be introduced to and to celebrate her incredible lifetime’s work.
Angela R Morris – Don’t Let Them Stop You! It’s Personal
A NO HOLDS barred book, which encourages readers to dismiss the influence of others over their life and take charge of their decisions.
In a culture which is often shaped by external opinions, Angela Morris’ book aids readers in their efforts to navigate the challenges of dealing with others’ opinions and thoughts which may cripple their progress.
Don’t Let Them Stop You! – It’s Personal deals with some of the impact of external pressures which may be getting in the way of decision-making and offers practical tips and approaches to successfully steer past them.
Hephzibah Akinwaleb – Chronicles of the Time Keepers
Whisked Away Eleven-year-old Hephzibah has a secret. For as long as she can remember, she’s been having mysterious dreams – some involve her saving the world in some way – not that she could argue but these dreams felt real… like she is right there in the dream, watching it all happen.
It’s something she’s never known how to explain.
Apart from the mysteriousness, she’s just a normal girl with annoying younger siblings. School has just broken up for the summer holidays, and she is looking forward to starting her new life at secondary school.
At first, things are going as expected, but everything changes when she is gifted with an antique clock, a purchase of her own choosing that she has traded for her friendship bracelet, and within a blink of an eye, she gets whisked away into a strange future world.
Ishi Robinson – Sweetness in the Skin
Fourteen-year-old Pumkin Patterson lives in a two-room house in Kingston Jamaica with her devoted grandmother, her beloved Aunt Sophie, and a mother who couldn’t care less about her.
When her conniving estranged father shows up, Pumkin’s only real escape is baking – while making sweet potato pudding and apple turnovers she can forget the fighting at home.
When Aunt Sophie is offered the chance to move to France, she promises to send for Pumkin as soon as she can afford to.
But when things take a turn for the worse in Pumkin’s household, she’s determined to raise the money herself.
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