Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Feb 2022

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Winner of the 2021 Costa Book Award Best First Novel.   

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson
Open Water
Paperback

The School of Starting Over

Lisa Swift
The School of Starting Over
Paperback

The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans
The Office of Historical Corrections
Paperback