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On the Caribbean islands, slavery has just been abolished. Though not quite free, a mother goes looking for her stolen children and discovers her own strength, in Eleanor Shearers moving novel "River Sing Me Home."

Lots of authors will be introducing their books over February and March

New book January 2023 releases.

This heartwrenching debut is a beauty. We asked a selection of our book clubbers to join Rachels tearjerking quest to find her children as slavery is abolished in this beautiful book about fractured families, freedom, loss and love.

Rest is needed, but with surviving another year in the 2020s amid an ongoing global pandemic, resilience is a pretty fitting theme to kick off 2023 in fiction.

Set in the Caribbean around the time of the Slavery Abolition Act, Shearer’s powerful debut novel follows a mother’s journey to reunite with her children

A former enslaved Bajan plantation worker embarks on a courageous journey in this immersive debut