they used to smash our windows in, on a regular basis. Born in 1959, Evaristo grew up in South-East London. “My father was from Nigeria,” she says. “He came over in 1949. And my mother was a ...

“I wanted to write a book that had as many black British women in it as possible,” explains Bernardine, “because there were so few of us getting published. And so we just weren't really ...

Girl, Woman, Other author Bernardine Evaristo just appeared on a brilliant Desert Island Discs episode, where she shared her life experiences ... sharing more of her personal experiences and ...

The series, called Black Britain: Writing Back, has seen each of the six titles republished with an introduction by Evaristo and a ... health system to inside the life of a working-class Black ...

Evaristo’s 2014 novel tells the story of a ... “Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.” ...