From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming, and about the truest meaning of family you can get when your dad loves his jeep more than he loves his children.
Candice Carty-Williams Book order
Candice Carty-Williams is an author whose work draws from a rich tapestry of cultural influences and personal experiences. Through her distinctive voice, she explores complex relationships and identity, with writing that is imbued with sharp wit and keen insight. Carty-Williams is dedicated to celebrating and championing diverse voices within literature, a commitment reflected in her approach to storytelling and thematic concerns. Her narratives challenge readers to consider societal questions and the human condition.
- 2022
- 2021
orange cover edition for independent bookshops
- 2021
South London's answer to 'Freaky Friday', Empress and Aniya is a moving portrayal of the importance of real friendship and the ups and downs of being a teenager.
- 2020
Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads)
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A Quick Read written by Sunday Times bestselling author, Candice Carty- Williams
- 2019
Queenie
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes 'A must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all' Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.
