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Ti Noël, an enslaved man in French Saint-Domingue, lives through the Haitian Revolution and the reign of King Henri Christophe, in a novel full of the marvellous real.
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Augustown
On the day in 1982 when a teacher cuts off six-year-old Kaia's dreadlocks, his great-aunt Ma Taffy remembers the day in 1920 when a preacher was supposed to fly over Augustown in Kingston.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Tituba, born on Barbados to an enslaved mother, learns healing from an old woman of the island and is sold to a Puritan minister in Massachusetts, where she is among the first accused in the Salem trials.
A Mercy
In the early days of American slavery, a young woman sold from one master to another navigates a world where mercy is rare and freedom is an idea without language.
Confession of the Lioness
In Kulumani, a village in northern Mozambique, lions are killing women, and Archangel Bullseye, a hunter from the city, is sent to kill them, while Mariamar, whose sister was the latest victim, tells her own story.
Let Us Descend
Annis, the daughter of an enslaved woman and the man who owns them both, is sold away from the Carolina rice fields and marched south to the slave markets of New Orleans, and on the way a spirit of the wind, Aza, begins to speak to her.
Texaco
Marie-Sophie Laborieux, founder of the shantytown of Texaco on the edge of Fort-de-France, tells an urban planner sent to clear it the story of her family and of Martinique, from slavery to the present.
Sacred Hunger
In 1752 a Liverpool merchant builds a slave ship, the Liverpool Merchant, and his nephew Matthew Paris, a doctor ruined by scandal, goes aboard as its surgeon.
The Fraud
The housekeeper and cousin-in-law of a fading Victorian novelist becomes obsessed with the Tichborne trial, where a butcher claims to be a lost aristocrat and a formerly enslaved man testifies for him.
Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
The White Guard
In Kyiv in the winter of 1918, the Turbin family, siblings loyal to the old order, try to hold on to their home and each other as the city changes hands in the Russian Civil War.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress in post-emancipation Jamaica, is married off to an unnamed Englishman who takes her to England, in a prequel to Jane Eyre told as a reckoning with colonialism.
Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.