Books by Bernardine Evaristo

Presents an imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' are enslaved by black people. This title brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises questions about the society.

'Promises to make for one of 2021's must-read memoirs' StylistThe powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo.In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landmark for Britain. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history.Manifesto is her intimate and fearless account of how she did it. From a childhood steeped in racism from neighbours, priests and even some white members of her own family, to discovering the arts through her local youth theatre; from stuffing her belongings into bin bags, always on the move between temporary homes, to exploring many romantic partners both toxic and loving, male and female, and eventually finding her soulmate; from setting up Britain's first theatre company for Black women in the eighties to growing into the trailblazing writer, theatre-maker, teacher, mentor and activist we see today - Bernardine charts her rebellion against the mainstream and her life-long commitment to community and creativity. And, through the prism of her extraordinary experiences, she offers vital insights into the nature of race, class, feminism, sexuality and ageing in modern Britain.Bernardine Evaristo's life story is a manifesto for courage, integrity, optimism, resourcefulness and tenacity. It's a manifesto for anyone who has ever stood on the margins, and anyone who wants to make their mark on history. It's a manifesto for being unstoppable.'Bernardine Evaristo is one of those writers who should be read by everyone, everywhere' Elif Shafak 'Bernardine Evaristo is one of Britain's best writers, an iconic and unique voice, filled with warmth, subtlety and humanity. Exceptional' Nikesh Shukla 'Bernardine Evaristo is the most daring, imaginative and innovative of writers' Inua Ellams

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER '[Mr Loverman is] Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn FrenchWINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 and FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION 2015 Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?Mr Loverman is a ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.Praise for Bernardine Evaristo: 'One of Britain's most innovative authors . . . Bernardine Evaristo always dares to be different' New Nation'Evaristo remains an undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is anything but one-dimensional' Sunday Times'Audacious genre-bending, in-yer-face wit and masterly retellings of underwritten corners of history are the hallmarks of Evaristo's work' New Statesman Bernardine Evaristo is the author of three critically acclaimed 'verse novels' - Lara, The Emperor's Babe (which won the Arts Council Award in 2000) and Soul Tourists. Mr Loverman is her second prose novel, after 2008's Blonde Roots. Evaristo is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, and was awarded an MBE in 2009. She lives in London.

'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and AutumnA coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and transformative -- from the acclaimed author of Mr LovermanLondinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she's just been married off a fat old Roman. Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor. She knows this city like the back of her hand: its slave girls and drag queens, its shining villas and rotting slums. She knows how to get by. Until one day she catches the eye of the most powerful man on earth, the Roman Emperor, and her trouble really starts...Silver-tongued and merry-eyed, this is a story in song and verse, a joyful mash-up of today and yesterday. Kaleidoscoping distant past and vivid present, The Emperor's Babe asks what it means to be a woman and to survive in this thrilling, brutal, breathless world.

PIGE, KVINDE, ANDET vandt Booker-prisen i 2019 og er kåret til årets bog i England i 2020. Det er en stor, forgrenet fortælling om moderne kvindeliv: rørende, politisk, menneskelig – og umulig at slippe.PIGE, KVINDE, ANDET følger tolv vidt forskellige, men indbyrdes forbundne karakterer og deres liv i England. Dramatikeren Amma har endelig fået en forestilling sat op The National Theatre efter i årtier at have været dømt ude som værende en marginal sort, lesbisk kunstner. Hendes veninde Shirley er nedslidt efter et halvt liv som lærer i skolesystemet. Shirleys tidligere elev Carole vil intet andet end at blende ind i bankverdenen. Ammas datter, Yazz, drømmer om at blive journalist, for hun har meget at sige, og verden trænger til at høre det – ikke mindst hendes selvoptagede forældre.PIGE, KVINDE, ANDET skildrer en række uforglemmelige karakterer, som spænder vidt i alder, seksualitet og social status. Alle søger de efter noget – en fælles fortid, en meningsfuld fremtid, nogen at elske. Forståelse fra en mor. Anerkendelse fra en far. Et sted at høre til. Eller måske bare et lille glimt af håb.Bernardine Evaristo har skrevet en varm, vigtig og til tider ustyrligt morsom roman og en fortælling om køn, race og klasse, hvis lige ikke er set før.

Barry Jedidiah Walker er 74 år og lever et dobbeltliv. Han bor i Londons Hackney-kvarter, hvor han er kendt som en flamboyant og morsom personlighed, der går nydeligt klædt i retro jakkesæt og citerer Shakespeare for et godt ord. Han er far, bedstefar og gift med Carmel – men han er også homoseksuel og har gennem seks årtier haft en hemmelig affære med sin barndomsven Morris. Barry og Carmel kommer fra den caribiske ø Antigua og har kendt hinanden, siden de var helt unge. Men Barry blev ikke ligefrem den førsteelsker, Carmel drømte om. Hun tror, at Barry er utro med andre kvinder og søger trøst i sin bibelkreds. Da ægteskabet er på opløsningens rand, drømmer Barry om at flytte sammen med Morris. Men tør han det efter et helt liv med skam og hemmeligheder? Mr. Loverman er en banebrydende roman, som med humor og hjerte udforsker kulturelle myter om kærlighed, seksualitet og familie. „Både hjerteskærende og morsom – en historie, som er vigtig og nødvendig at fortælle.“THE OBSERVER

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Tate Britain: Look Again: the National Collection of British Art reimagined for today. Feminism is a powerful new interpretation of British art from an intersectional feminist perspective, from one of Britain's greatest writers.

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERThe funny and fabulous tale of two twentieth-century misfits and their adventure into European history...It is 1988, and Jessie, artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver, meets Stanley, angst-ridden banker and boffin. Jessie arrives like a guardian angel and lifts Stanley out of his soul-less life. He ditches his job, and together they set off across Europe. Destination -- unknown. Duration -- indeterminate. So begins an odyssey which turns into an adventure on the stage of European history featuring Shakespeare's "e;dark lady of the sonnets"e;, Pushkin's African great-grandfather, the composer Chevalier de St. Georges and other colourful characters from Europe's past.

It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.The boy's mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear?

Booker Prize winner's debut semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on her own childhood and family history. It explores the lives of those who leave one country in search of a better life elsewhere, but who end up struggling to be accepted even as they lay the foundations for their children and future generations.