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Killer Instinct

Until Proven Innocent

A collection of rediscovered works celebrating Black Britain curated by Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo

Incomparable World

Bernard and the Cloth Monkey

Minty Alley

The Fat Lady Sings

The Dancing Face

My Fathers' Daughter

Sequins for a Ragged Hem

Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s

Growing Out

Britons Through Negro Spectacles

A Black Boy at Eton

Sugar and Slate

Dat's Love

Without Prejudice

An exciting legal thriller . . . [Williams] interweaves a textured social commentary

'Impressive and unique. As relevant today as it was over two decades ago' Bernardine Evaristo, from the Introduction 
 
A gripping, propulsive courtroom thriller following barrister Lee Mitchell as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich 
 
Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her. 
 
After she takes on the high-profile case of notorious millionaire playboy Clive Omartian - arrested along with his father and stepbrother for eye-wateringly exorbitant fraud - the line between her personal and professional life becomes dangerously blurred. 
Spiralling further into Clive's trail of debauchery and corruption, she finds herself in alarmingly deep waters. 
 
Can she survive her case, let alone win it? 
 
Selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.

Nicola Williams (Author) 
 Nicola Williams started her career as a barrister in private practice, specialising in Criminal Law, including three successful Commonwealth death penalty appeals before the House of Lords sitting as the Privy Council. She was a legal expert on BBC World for the OJ Simpson trial verdict in 1995 and a member of the first Independent Advisory Group to the Metropolitan Police Service (following recommendations arising from the Stephen Lawrence Report [1999]). She has been a part-time Crown Court Judge since 2010. A former winner of Cosmopolitan magazine Woman of Achievement Award, she is an active volunteer for the Speakers for Schools programme, a charity which encourages young people from disadvantaged and under-represented communities to enter the professions. 
 
Bernardine Evaristo (Introducer) 
 Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020.

Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her. 
 
After she takes on the high-profile case of notorious millionaire playboy Clive Omartian - arrested along with his father and stepbrother for eye-wateringly exorbitant fraud - the line between her personal and professional life becomes dangerously blurred. 
Spiralling further into Clive's trail of debauchery and corruption, she finds herself in alarmingly deep waters. 
 
Can she survive her case, let alone win it?

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