The second event taking place on 15 March will feature writers Namina Forna and Justin Deabler.

Namina Forna was born in Sierra Leone but emigrated with her family to the US in the 1990s, and has been travelling back and forth ever since. Namina has a MFA in film and TV production from USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BA from Spelman College. She now works as a screenwriter in LA and loves telling stories with fierce female leads. The Gilded Ones is her debut novel.

Justin Deabler grew up in Houston. He dropped out of high school when he was fifteen, went to Simon's Rock College, and graduated from Harvard Law School. He is the General Counsel for the Queens Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband, son, and two cats. Lone Stars is his first novel.

Tickets are £3. You can also add a copy of either or both novels at a 15% discount. Shipping is included to the UK only.

The third event taking place on 22 March will feature writers Catherine Menon and Victoria Princewill.

Catherine Menon is Australian-British, has Malaysian heritage and lives in London. She is a lecturer in robotics and has both a PhD in Pure Mathematics and an MA in Creative Writing. Fragile Monsters is her debut novel.

Victoria Princewill FRSA is a historical fiction novelist, whose work is driven by a desire to write forgotten intelligent African women back into our world. Her debut novel In The Palace of Flowers, does just that. Born in the U.K. in 1990, educated at Oxford and UCL with degrees in literature and philosophy she is currently working towards a third degree in Neuroscience.

Tickets are £3. You can also add a copy of either or both novels at a 15% discount. Shipping is included to the UK only.

The fourth event taking place on 12 April will feature writers Cherie Jones and Nekesa Afia.

Cherie Jones is the author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. She is a lawyer based in Barbados. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 1999. She then studied Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam in 2015, where she won both the Archie Markham Award and the A.M. Heath Prize. In 2015 she was also awarded a full fellowship from the Vermont Studio Centre. A collection of inter-connected stories set in a different small community in Barbados won the third prize in the Frank Collymore Endowment Awards in 2016.

Twenty-four-year-old Nekesa Afia has just finished her undergraduate degree in Journalism and English and is a publishing student. Dead Dead Girls is her debut novel, an exciting new historical mystery series set in 1920s Harlem. When she isn't writing, she's dancing, sewing, and trying to pet every dog she sees. She's been writing since she was a child.

Tickets are £3. You can also add a copy of either or both novels at a 15% discount. Shipping is included to the UK only.

The fifth event taking place on 26 April will feature writers Natasha Brown and Jarred McGinnis.

Natasha Brown has spent a decade working in financial services, after studying Maths at Cambridge University. She developed Assembly, her debut novel after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category.

Jarred McGinnis is the co-founder of The Special Relationship, His debut novel The Coward is published by Canongate (July 2021).

Tickets are £3. You can also add a copy of either or both novels at a 15% discount. Shipping is included to the UK only.

Tickets are priced at £3 per event, with the option to add a copy of any of the novels at a 15% discount.

Shipping is included to the UK only.

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