Black Culture & History
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America - Craig Werner
A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry re..
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A Daughter of Isis : The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words - Nawal El-Saadawi
Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existen..
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A Different Drummer - William Melvin Kelley
June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tu..
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A History of Pan-African Revolt - C.L.R. James
Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and ..
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A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of raci..
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A Rage in Harlem - Chester Himes
A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester..
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A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
A modern classic, this epic tale of families, romance and political intrigue, set in India, never ..
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A View of the Empire at Sunset - Caryl Phillips
In the heart of London's Bloomsbury, Gwendolen - not yet truly famous as the writer 'Jean Rhys' - ..
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture - Angela Davis
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever sin..
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Africa's Tarnished Name - Chinua Achebe
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by other..
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Afropean : Notes from Black Europe - Johny Pitts
Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A cont..
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Ain't I a Woman - bell hooks
In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth c..
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All Things Remembered - Goldie
All Things Remembered is the story of the man born Clifford J. Price -- jungle's most streetwise a..
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Alpha Boys School - Heather Augustyn & Adam Reeves
Facing a life of poverty, neglect, abandonment and even homelessness, young Jamaican boys are plac..
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists : A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights - Mikki Kendall & Anna D'Amico
The ongoing struggle for women's rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on..
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An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and..
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And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise is made up of 32 short poems, divided into three parts. The poems' themes focus o..
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Another Day in the Death of America - Gary Younge
Saturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits an unremarkable da..
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Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case f..
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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 - Val Wilmer & Richard Williams
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and j..
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Assata : An Autobiography - Assata Shakur & Angela Davis
Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of..
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Balfour's Shadow : A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel - David Cronin
This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, ..
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Bass Culture : When Reggae Was King - Lloyd Bradley
The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes i..
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Bass, Mids, Tops : An Oral History of Sound System Culture - Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens
An oral history of the UK's soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell..
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Beloved - Toni Morrison
AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the v..
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Beneath The Underdog - Charles Mingus & Richard Williams
Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in ..
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Billie Holiday - Jose Munoz & Carlos Sampayo
Born in Baltimore in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legenda..
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Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga
In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells th..
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Black and British A short essential history - David Olusoga
A short, essential introduction to Black British history. When did Africans first come to Britain?..
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Black by Design : A 2-Tone Memoir - Pauline Black
Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was subsequently adopted by a white, ..
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Black History for Beginners - Denise Dennis & Susan Willmarth
Here is a reprint of one of the most popular Beginners books. Covering a rich history often igno..
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Black Panthers for Beginners - Herb Boyd & Lance Tooks
A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather j..
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Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon
Not yet printed, 24 Sept 2020. Preorder here.'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in wo..
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Black, Listed : Black British Culture Explored - Jeffrey Boakye
AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK. These are j..
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Bob Marley & The Wailers : The Definitive Discography - Roger Steffens & Leroy Jody Pierson
For the first time ever, all the recordings made by Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh have ..
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But Beautiful : A Book About Jazz - Geoff Dyer
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on ..
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C.L.R. James : The Artist as Revolutionary - Paul Buhle & Lawrence Ware
C.L.R. James is one of the twentieth century's most remarkable individuals. As the author of the i..
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Cassius X : A Legend in the Making - Stuart Cosgrove
Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sports..
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Chamber Music : About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces) - Will Ashon
Each of these chambers contains wonders of history, destiny and mythology' Margo JeffersonWill Ash..
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Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fanta..
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Communities of Resistance - A. Sivanandan, Gary Younge , Arun Kundnani
Ambalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain's most influential radical thinkers. As Director of the ..
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Cookin' : Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65 - Kenny Mathieson
Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second installment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz hi..
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Dark Days - James Baldwin
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were comp..
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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new sta..
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Detroit 67 : The Year That Changed Soul - Stuart Cosgrove
Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take yo..
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Different Class : Football, Fashion and Funk - The Story of Laurie Cunningham - Dermot Kavanagh
When Laurie Cunningham played for England in an under-21s match against Scotland in 1977, he becam..
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Diver's Daughter: A Tudor Story - Patrice Lawrence
A gripping heart-in-your-mouth adventure told by Eve, a Tudor girl who sets out on a dangerou..
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Don Drummond : The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist - Heather Augustyn
This is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician and his lover who forever shaped the cou..
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Dread Poetry and Freedom : Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution - David Austin
What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political ..
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Earthquake on Orange Street: Buster's Jamaican Singles Story - Jeremy Collingwood
Mind-boggling discography devoted to the Jamaican releases of Prince Buster's productions from 196..
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Familiar Stranger : A Life between Two Islands - Stuart Hall
This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and..
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Fanon for Beginners - Deborah Baker Wyrick
Philosopher, psychoanalyst, politician, propagandist, prophet. although difficult to categorise, F..
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Feminism, Interrupted : Disrupting Power - Lola Olufemi
Plastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast ..
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Frantz Fanon : Philosopher of the Barricades - Peter Hudis
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary w..
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Freedom - Catherine Johnson
Winner of the Little Rebels Children's Book Award 2019!"Filled with humour, compassion and ho..
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Davis
In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggle..
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Gangsta Rap - Benjamin Zephaniah
Just what do you do with talent from the wrong side of town? Benjamin Zephaniah draws on his own e..
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Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair..
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Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newca..
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Go Ahead in the Rain : Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre..
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Grand Union - Zadie Smith
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, ..
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Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely writte..
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Happiness - Aminatta Forna
Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an Amer..
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Harlem 69 : The Future of Soul - Stuart Cosgrove
In 1969, among Harlem's Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Ar..
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Homecoming : Voices of the Windrush Generation - Colin Grant
Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the w..
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Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave t..
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Hostile Environment : How Immigrants Become the Scapegoats - Maya Goodfellow
The UK government proudly calls the aim of its immigration policy to be the creation of a "hostile..
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I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin & Raoul Peck
The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film. In June 1979, the wri..
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiogra..
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If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautif..
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If He Hollers Let Him Go - Chester Himes & Jake Arnott
Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lo..
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If They Come in the Morning - Angela Davis
"The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and n..
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In the Midnight Hour : The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett - Tony Fletcher
He was the Wicked Wilson Pickett, the legendary soul man whose forty-plus hits included "In the Mi..
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Inglorious Empire : What the British Did to India - Shashi Tharoor
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, ..
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It Takes Blood and Guts- Skin & Lucy O'Brien
'One of the most important females in British music of my lifetime.' Colin Murray Lead singer of ..
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Jazz - Toni Morrison
Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrison's voice..
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Katherine Johnson - Leila Rasheed
Katherine Johnson: teacher, mathematician, trailblazer. Award-winning children's author, L..
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Kindred : The ground-breaking masterpiece - Octavia E. Butler
The Pool In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana firs..
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Kitch : A fictional biography of a calypso icon - Anthony Joseph
Combining factual biography with the imaginative structure of the novel, Anthony Joseph gets to th..
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Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday
'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"I've been told ..
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Lee Scratch Perry - Kiss Me Neck : The Scratch Story in Words, Pictures and Records - Jeremy Collingwood
An incredible, meticulous reference documenting the massive musical output by the pioneering regga..
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Letter from Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the great..
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Letter To My Daughter - Maya Angelou
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to my Daughter reveals May..
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Lick It Back: Bob Marley The Jamaican Vinyl Story - Jeremy Collingwood
Lick It Back is the story of Bob Marley's extraordinary career told through his Jamaican vinyl rel..
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Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds & Chris Priestley
When Shawn, the beloved big brother of 15-year-old Will, is shot dead, Will is ready to follow "..
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Lovers and Strangers : An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - Clair Wills
The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the fac..
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Lucy Parsons : American Revolutionary - Carolyn Ashbaugh
A woman ahead of her time, Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who defied all the conventio..
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Mandela, The Graphic Novel - Umlando Wezithombe
Freedom fighter, fugitive, celebrated prisoner, president: the hero of a nation. Nelson Mandela wa..
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Maroon Comix - Seth Tobocman, Mac McGill & Saul Quincy
Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies i..
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Me and White Supremacy : How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World - Layla Saad
Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that th..
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Memphis 68 : The Tragedy of Southern Soul - Stuart Cosgrove
In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha ..
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Minty Alley - C.L.R. James
James's novel has been acclaimed as ""a ground-breaking example of regional social realism"" and a..
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Moses Ascending - Sam Selvon
Sam Selvon’s Moses Ascending depicts West Indian Immigration in England. Moses, a Trinidadian who ..
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Mother Country : Real Stories of the Windrush Children - Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne B..
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Mr Loverman - Bernardine Evaristo
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's..
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Mrs Death Misses Death - Salena Godden
Not yet printed - 28 Jan 2021. Pre order here.Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spendi..
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My Darling from the Lions - Rachel Long
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionThis debut collection is the modern poe..
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My Name Is Why - Lemn Sissay
How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This stor..
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My Song : A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance - Harry Belafonte
My Song is an inspiring story of performance and protest, from a superstar singer and actor who wa..
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Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'Sephy is a Cross: s..
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