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Looking for an eclectic site to find book recommendations? Try https://t.co/yXKTNw8nWR We ONLY review books that we love. #amreading

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Brilliant on so many layers, and a more than worthy winner of the 2022 @jhalakprize

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Review of the winner of the 2022 @jhalakprize, graphic novel The Roles We Play by @sabbakhan_ A profound exploration of the experience of diaspora, at once universal and deeply personal. https://t.co/1JefVGCR4G

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To add to the multimedia experience, Khan has curated a playlist to accompany the book – an eclectic selection of tracks, one for every chapter, which you can listen to on @spotify. https://t.co/cF3YPQVxT4

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Announcing winners of the 2022 Jhalak Prize: @sabbakhan_ for #TheRolesWePlay (@MyriadEditions)
And Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize: @MaisieWrites for #DannyChungDoesNotDoMaths (@PiccadillyPress)

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The winner of the 2022 Children and Young Adult @jhalakprize: Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths by @MaisieWrites https://t.co/qtskUxki5E

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Qureshi’s language is often lyrical, conjuring beauty even when her mood is dark.
A collection that bears reading and re-reading as you find more and more in them.

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Last (for now) we have Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love by Huma Qureshi @huma_qureshi_uk, a collection of stories about the fractures that run through relationships. Longlisted for the 2022 @jhalakprize https://t.co/Zm71ICWS4G

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Listing the themes of these stories could make this collection sound dark, even grim. Yet something about it nonetheless feels like soul-food. Life-affirming.

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Tice Cin is poet and digital artist as well as an author. Her prose periodically elides into poetry. Her language is lush: the sounds of it, and the images is conjures, all carefully considered.

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Third is Keeping the House by Tice Cin @ticecin
Far from a typical crime thriller, this story of the North London drugs trade is smuggled inside a much larger narrative. Shortlisted for the 2022 @jhalakprize
https://t.co/kHVFxPUaQR

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Told from the points of view of three generations of Cypriots around the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, it’s an intimate, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic portrait of an immigrant community.

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But Sheba's mother has a darker magic, and it may now rest on Sheba to protect them all.

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Second, we have Lionheart Girl by Yaba Badoe @yaba_badoe. A story of courage and friendship and reaching deep inside yourself to find out who you really are. Longlisted for the 2022 Children's and YA @jhalakprize https://t.co/vgRGQX4JAV

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Sheba has been brought up by her grandmother and aunts – a family of women with magic in their fingers in a village in West African. Founded to protect those escaping from the slave traders, it can only be discovered by those in the direst need.

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Danny is not best pleased to find his new roommate is his grandmother from China - who doesn't even speak English. But maybe sometimes the oddest pairings make the best teams!

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Four reviews from the @jhalakprize short- and long-lists, 2 adult books & 2 from the Children's & YA list.
First: Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths by Maisie Chan, illus by Anh Cao @_ratsart @maisiewrites #jhalakprize2022
https://t.co/qtskUxki5E

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A funny and affectionate portrait of life as the child of immigrant parents: of the struggle to find your own voice and be accepted for who you really are.

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Delighted to share our 2022 Jhalak Children's & Young Adult Prize longlist of 12 amazing #mustread books

#JhalakPrize22

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The @jhalakprize longlists are out! Time to get busy

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Delighted to share our 2022 Jhalak Prize #longlist with 12 incredible #mustread books!

#JhalakPrize22