Episode 19: When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy and Domestic Violence
When I hit you Lenin cries is what our authors revolutionary husband tells her after every unnerving beating over the course of their short four month...
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Welcome to Coconut Juice, the podcast you never knew you needed and the bookclub you’ve always wanted to join but never had the time to. We think that BAME authors are marginalised and very much underrepresented, so come and join us as we add some diversity to the existing literary landscape.
Episode 18: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 a portrait of modern Britain through the eyes and interconnected stories of 12 different British people mostly women a...
Episode 17: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Sugar Tax and Prince Andrew
Imagine if there was a network of secret passages a rail transport system with safe houses conductors and secret routes through out America that could...
Episode 16: The Gift of Rain by Tan Twang Eng and British Opium [SPOILER ALERT]
Philip Hutton is a loner Its 1937 in Malaysia and being the mixed race son of an English father and Chinese mother comes with certain hardships Never ...
Episode 15: The Mothers by Britt Bennett, Interview with the Author and Drake
New York Times best selling author Brit Bennett answers Zainab Rav and Stevens burning questions about her debut novel The Mothers Were going across t...
Episode 14: Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji, BP and Unilever
Sorry weve been away for so long But like Chance the Rapper were better than we were the last timeIn this poignant eyeopening and emotionally vivid no...
Episode 13: In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne, London and Slang
LONDON CALLING InOurMadandFuriousCitytakes place over 48 hours in a North London estateDescribed by Waterstones as an authenticaccount of a less visib...
Episode 12: There There by Tommy Orange, Native Americans and America
What do you know about Native Americans Growing up in Britain our knowledge of Native American culture is very minimal essentially existing of what Ho...
Episode 11: White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht, Haenyeo and Comfort Women
Korea 1943 Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation As a haenyeo a female diver of the sea she enjoys an independence that few other K...
Episode 10: Brother by David Chariandy, Goodreads and Chutney Music
This is the story of brotherhood of two young boys growing upin Scarborough a not so nice part of TorontoThese boysFrancis and Michael like David Char...