This episode covers 9 recommendations from Tali of books by Black British authors, these books range from stories that feature black characters and themes around black identity, to essays and discussions on race, class and the British colonial heritage.

Books discussed in today's episode are:

• The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• Black and British: A Short, Essential History - David Olusoga
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Noughts & Crosses, Noughts & Crosses #1 - Malorie Blackman
• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - Afua Hirsch
• Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
• Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
• Honey & Spice - Bolu Babalola

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Over July and August our buddy read book was My Boss is the Devil by Ben Schenkman! The rules for our buddy reads are simple, we try to pick an indie author whose book is available on Kindle Unlimited and we have two months to read it.

This episode does contain spoilers! In it we talk about the themes, plots and characters in the book and what we did and didn't like.

You can join our next buddy read on Storygraph here, which will be Pumpkin, Spice and Poltergeist by Ali K Mulford and K.Elle. Morrison.

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We haven't come up with a succinct way to summarise this trope, it's basically 'character is injured/ sick and other character takes care of them trope' - this is distinctly different from the 'who hurt you trope', it is very specifically about books where a character is cared for by another, usually the love interest.

Disappointingly for us, but good news for you, this actually turned out to be a really good list! We definitely added a bunch of stuff to our TBR's

Books discussed in today episode are:

• From Lukov with Love - Mariana Zapata
• In Deeper Waters - F.T. Lukens
• Pestilence, The Four Horsemen #1 -Laura Thalassa
• Always Only You, Bergman Brothers #2- Chloe Liese
• Fragile Remedy - Maria Ingrande Mora
• The Nature of Witches - Rachel Griffin
• A Ruin of Roses, Deliciously Dark Fairytales #1 - K.F. Breene
• Divine Blood, Guardians of the Maiden #1 - Beck Michaels
• Easy Tiger, Prickle Island Zoo #2 - Ali K. Mulford
• Kingdom of the Wicked, Kingdom of the Wicked #1 - Kerri Maniscalco
• Six of Crows, Six of Crows #1 - Leigh Bardugo

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