Howi Faced News Today

I spent lockdown (all of them) working on my new book. It’s called Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man. I decided to write it because I was conditioned from a young age that what makes a man is strength, dominance and never crying. Growing up on a council estate in Custom House had a part to play in that and being a first-generation Brit from a Ghanaian family that didn’t always feel welcome in London contributed...

“There are hundreds of manuscripts I turn down, so everything goes into the books I am publishing as I believe that they above others deserve scores of readers. Finding unique voices that tell us more about the world we live in, wake us up from our privilege and expose the challenges individuals face is an honour, and one I am always delighted to share with curious readers.” On Sharmaine’s TBR pile? Three dazzling new books from Dialogue, coming soon to a (virtual) shelf near you. Cold Su...

Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera / Viking Several authors tackle colonialism in very different ways, from Alex Renton confronting his own family’s involvement in slavery in Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Enslaving Past (Canongate), and Sathnam Sanghera in Kehinde Andrews, who rather more controversially takes on capitalism and racism together in The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (Allen Lane). Gender and Identity Politics Likewise gender and ...