Black History Month: Reading cafe

This event is for UAL staff and students only, a UAL ID card will be needed to enter the site and attend.

Come along for an inspiring discussion about their work, creative journey, and the power of diverse voices in literature. Don’t miss this chance to connect, ask questions, and celebrate local talent! 

Refreshments: Information Centre from 5:30pm

Discussion: Lecture Theatre C from 6 -7:30pm 
 

Booking essential – we have limited copies of Jamaica Road for first 30 staff or students that book. Alternately Lisa’s book can be purchased on Amazon. 

Jamaica Road : Smith, Lisa: Amazon.co.uk: Books 

South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive is to go unnoticed. 
Daphne's attempts at invisibility are upended when a boy named Connie Small arrives from Jamaica. Connie is the opposite of small in every way: lanky, outgoing, and unapologetically himself. Daphne tries to keep her distance, but Connie is magnetic, and they form an intense bond. As they navigate growing up in a volatile, rapidly changing city, their families become close, and their friendship begins to shift into something more complicated. But when Connie reveals that he is 'nuh land' - meaning he's in England illegally - Daphne realizes that she is dangerously entangled in Connie's fragile home life. Soon, long-buried secrets in both families threaten to tear them apart permanently. 
Spanning one tumultuous decade, Jamaica Road is an emotionally expansive debut novel about race and class, the family you're born with, the family you choose and the limits of what true love can really conquer. 

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