BLACK HISTORY MONTH
OCTOBER 2011
The following lists are based on a selection of adult titles on Black themes
currently in stock. They may be reserved at any Merton Library.
History and current issues
968.9105 Barclay, Philip
Zimbabwe: years of hope and despair
306.3620 Black, Jeremy
A brief history of slavery
940.53
Bourne, Stephen
Mother country: Britain’s black community
on the Home Front 1935-45
362.7609 Brookes, Harmony
Nowhere to belong: punished for the
colour of her skin
364.1523 Carlson, Joseph
Voodoo killers, slavery, sorcery and the
supernatural
967.5
Dallaire, Romeo
They fight like soldiers, they die like
children
972.94
Girard, Philippe
Paradise lost: Haiti’s tumultuous journey
968.066
Johnson, R W
South Africa’s brave new world
328.4409 Jordan, Michael
The great abolition scam: the true story of
the end of the British slave trade
968.4045 Knight, Ian
Zulu rising: Isandlwana and Rourke’s Drift
909.0971 Kwarteng, Kwasi
Ghosts of empire
305.8009 Mahamdallie, Hassan Defending multiculturalism
304.663
Olusoga, David
The Kaiser’s holocaust
962.05
Osman, Tarek
Egypt on the brink
973.903
Parker, Matthew
The sugar barons (Caribbean plantations
and slavery)
326.0972 Prince, Mary
History of Mary Prince: a West African
slave
940.5318 Reynolds, Z
Black victims of the Nazis
974.71
Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa Harlem is nowhere: a journey to the
Mecca of Black America
305.8966 Steinberg, Jonny
Little Liberia: an African odyssey in New
York
364.164
Tinniswood, Adrian
Pirates of Barbary
362.7330 Williams, Precious
Precious: a true story
947.0609
972.9106
968.9105
320.546
305.8960
323.1196
961.2042
968.0609
Civil rights and politics
Barnes, Hugh
Gannibal: the Moor of Petersburg
Castro, Fidel
My life
Freeth, Ben
Mugabe and the white African
Gormley, Beatrice
Malcolm X: a revolutionary voice
Grant, Colin
Negro with a hat: the rise and fall of
Marcus Garvey
Hodgson, Godfrey
Martin Luther King
Kawczynski, Daniel
Seeking Gaddafi
Mandela, Nelson
Conversations with myself
323.092
973.932
Naidu, Samantha
Remnick, David
323.1109
Steele, Philip
509.6
704.0396
391.4340
746.096
509.22
599.9380
610.7309
708
709.22
782.4216
781.6509
782.4216
791.4509
828.9202
782.4216
782.4215
305.8960
782.4216
782.4216
791.4302
782.4216
782.4216
Navi Pillay: realising human rights for all
The bridge: the life and rise of Barack
Obama
First December 1955: Rosa Parks and her
protest
Art, science and medicine
Abrams, Dennis
George Washington Carver: scientist and
educator
Barson, Tanya
Afro modern: journeys through the Black
Atlantic
Finley, Carol
The art of African masks
Gillow, John
African textiles
Hudson, Wade
Book of black heroes, scientists, healers
and inventors
Meredith, Martin
Born in Africa: the quest for the origins of
human life
Robinson, Jane
Mary Seacole: the heroine of the Crimea
Spalding, Julian
The best art you’ve never seen: 100
hidden treasures from around the world
Weidemann, C.
50 contemporary artists you should know
Music and entertainment
Black, Pauline
Black by design (British women singers)
Brothers, Thomas D
Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
Easlea, Daryl
Crazy in love: the Beyonce Knowles
biography
Goddard, Trisha
A life less ordinary
Goldberg, Whoopi
Is it just me? Or is it nuts out there?
Jackson, Jermaine
You are not alone: Michael through a
brother’s eyes
Lynskey, Dorian
33 revolutions per minute: a history of
protest songs
Rose, Tricia
The Hip-Hop wars
Sheridan, Maureen
Bob Marley: the stories behind every song
Taraborrelli, J. Randy Diana Ross
Tracy, Kathleen
Morgan Freeman
Unterberger, Richie
The rough guide to Jimi Hendrix
Williams, John
Miss Shirley Bassey
796.8309 Ali, Muhammad
796.0922 Callow, Nick
796.3340 Coomber, Richard
796.8309 Froch, Carl
796.8309 Mailer, Norman
796.3580 Olonga, Henry
Sport
The soul of a butterfly
The greatest 100 Olympians and
Paralympians
Lucas: from the streets of Soweto to
soccer superstar
The Cobra (Niall Hickman, boxer)
The fight (Ali v. Foreman)
Blood, sweat and treason (cricketer,
Zimbabwe)
796.3340 Regis, Cyrille
796.7209
796.3340
796.3420
796.4809
641.5973
641.595
641.5964
641.595
Rogers, Gareth
Walcott, Theo
Williams, Serena
Wilson, Neil
Angelou, Maya
Baljekar, Mridula
Basan, Ghille
Dhillon, Kris
641.5784 Foreman, George
641.555
641.5972
641.59
641.5
641.6383
641.5968
Harriott, Ainsley
Lee, Rustie
Mendez, Sean
Pascale, Lorraine
Roots, Levi
Vera, Barry
My story: the autobiography of the first
black icon of British football
Lewis Hamilton
Growing up fast
My life: queen of the court
The greatest British Olympians
Cookery
Halleluja! The welcome table
500 curries: discover a world of spice
Flavours of Morocco
Curries and spicy dishes for your slow
cooker
George Foreman’s indoor grilling made
easy
100 meals in minutes
A taste of the Caribbean
Kids cook the world
Baking made easy
Spice it up
Springbok and spices: tastes from a South
African kitchen
Health and beauty
Feed me! Writers dish about food, eating,
weight and body image
616.1527 Gillie, Oliver
Sickle cell disorder
646.724
Gittens, Sandra
African-Caribbean hairdressing
613.7042 Holmes, Kelly
Get your kids fit
646.72
Iman
The beauty of colour: the ultimate beauty
guide for skin of colour
613.715
King, Jamie
Rock your body: the ultimate hip-hop
inspired “dance as sport” guide
616.0277 Skloot, Rebecca
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
362.1
Steinberg, Jonny
Three letter plague
155.91
Brown, Harriet
Literature and poetry
823.914
Achebe, Chinua
The education of a British-protected child
818.5409 Angelou, Maya
The collected autobiographies
811
Dawes, Kwame
So much things to say
820.9896 George, Kadija
Write black, write British: from post
colonial to black British literature
811
Hughes, Langston
Dream keeper and other poems
818.5409 Jackson, Michael
Dancing the dream: poems and reflections
824.914
Okri, Ben
A time for new dreams
824.92
Phillips, Caryl
Colour me English
824.914
Smith, Zadie
Changing my mind: occasional essays
813.54
Walker, Alice
The chicken chronicles
821.914
Zephaniah, Benjamin Kung fu trip
Aboulela, Leila
Alers, Rochelle
Barry, Angela
Bedford, Simi
Billingsley, ReShonda Tate
Bryant, Niobia
Carew, Jan
Carter, Latrese
Chikwava, Brian
Clark, Wahida
Edugyan, Esi
Edwards, Yvette
Ervin, Keisha
Evaristo, Bernadine
Forna, Aminatta
Galgut, Damon
Gappah, Petina
Griffin, Bettye
Griggs, Vanessa Davis
Haley, Patricia
Hill, Donna
Hughes, Langston
James, Marlon
King, Aliya S
Lalami, Laila
Levy, Andrea
Lewis, Erica
McBride, James
Mohamed, Nadifa
Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia
Nunn, Malla
Okereke, Chimoa
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei
Phillips, Delores
Renfroe, Paula
Sabatini, Irene
Saville, Guy
Selvon, Samuel
Shoneyin, Titilola Alexandrah
Smith, Zadie
Thompson, Faye
Thompson, Maxine
Underwood, Blair
Various Authors
Wheatle, Alex
Winters, Angela
Whitehead, Colson
Fiction
Lyrics alley
Harvest moon
Goree: point of departure
Not with silver
Holly rollers
Live and learn
Wild coast
Liar, liar
Harare North
Payback is a mutha
Half blood blues
A cupboard full of coats
Gunz and roses
Lara
The memory of love
The imposter
An elegy for Easterly
Once upon a project
Strongholds
Chosen
Heart’s reward
Not without laughter
The book of night women
Platinum
Secret son
The long song
Darkness in the mirror
Song yet sung
Black Mamba boy
I do not come to you by chance
Let the dead lie
Bitter leaf
Tail of the blue bird
The darkest child
The cheating curve
The boy next door
The Afrika Reich
The lonely Londoners
The secret lives of Baba Segi’s wives
White teeth
Cheesecake and teardrops
L.A. blues
From Cape Town with love
To see the mountain and other stories
(Caine Prize for African writing 2011)
Brenton Brown
View Park
Sag Harbor