Courttia Newland

• May-1998
• / General Fiction
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When his dad dies under police arrest after a pub brawl, Cory goes to live with his cousin, Sean. By their late teens the cousins, though close, have chosen different paths. Sean is trying to improve his life through education, whereas Cory has alrea...

• Sep-2000
• / Literary
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SOCIETY WITHIN takes us back to the Greenside Estate, West London, scene of Courttia Newland's ground-breaking and hugely successful first novel, THE SCHOLAR. Newly arrived on the estate is Elisha: sweet, bright, sassy and just eighteen. As Elisha...

• Sep-2006
• / Literary
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A beautiful Asian woman appears outside the office next to Ervine James's Private Investigation business, then a mysterious company rents the space for a few months before disappearing. Soon detectives begin investigating allegations of organised gro...

• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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Drawing inspiration from everything from traditional horror movies to the sophistication of contemporary Japanese short-story styles, the literary and the popular merge seamlessly in this uniquely black British mix. This collection meticulousl...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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Ambitious and contemporary, this groundbreaking collection offers new short fiction by exciting, fresh talents and established authors from around the world. Covering a myriad of topics—love, sex, death, war, crime, and the environment—ea...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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A music journalist suffering a crisis of identity in Miami. The year young London went crazy for hiphop. Old friends trying to connect their disparate lives once more. In stories threaded together with music, A Book of Blues explores both physical...

• Feb-2013
• / Literary
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Beverley Cottrell had a dream life: a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. This is stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son Malakay is kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a full police investigation, and the ...

• Oct-2018
• / Science Fiction
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A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny.“Newland’s second venture into science fictional territories is a rich, diverse colle...

• Jan-2021
• / General Fiction
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A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons.Short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award“A dystopian multiverse imagined at thrilling scale . . . Extraordinary . . . The excitement lies ...