'Black women novelists move us from the position of passive spectators of other people’s stories to the centre of attention ourselves.'
, Evans writes with exceptional profundity and is exemplary at exploring the inner workings of her fictional characters through a prose style so poetic you want to languish in her sentences.
We need to be writing in all genres, from magical realism to romantic fiction to psychological thrillers. Nicola Williams was the first Black woman to write a crime novel in the UK., her riveting debut, was published in 1997. Williams was then a barrister who went on to become a crown court judge, so it’s safe to say she understands the judicial system at a cellular level, and it shows.
Two very different debut novels about millennials – one queer, one heterosexual – are also on the cards this year.by Liv Little, founder of the groundbreaking online magazine, gal-dem, is a sexy and bodacious novel about a young queer woman navigating the messy entanglements of her life in London. Literature about Black queer lives and loves is a rare thing, and this novel is female-focused, making it doubly precious.
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