Kadish Morris

‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long-lost civil rights images of Ernest Cole

The award-winning poet and artist on exploring attitudes around Brexit, using AI in their work, and swapping London for Paris

Welcome to our annual selection of the year’s finest debut novels. We have a proven track record in picking authors that go on to be loved by readers and win awards … from Douglas Stuart and Sally Rooney to Caleb Azumah Nelson and Bonnie Garmus. Here are 2025’s gems

The American poet’s dark, politically conscious fourth collection tackles the entrenched problem of anti-blackness and the aftermath of the George Floyd protests

A grieving son aims to connect with his late father through the cassette tapes he left behind, in a tale of jazz, black ambition and romance

The American poet and musician’s new album The Great Bailout tracks the money given to British slaveowners – including David Cameron’s ancestors. She explains why she is pessimistic about getting true justice

Our annual pick of the most exciting debut fiction has previously tipped Sally Rooney and Louise Kennedy, Tom Crewe and Douglas Stuart. Here the class of 2024 tell us their stories

She may have conquered TikTok, and then the Billboard charts, but the UK pop phenom is still learning how to be herself in public. As she releases her debut album she discusses her rapid rise, and which of her viral hits are ‘crap’

The American poet’s visceral account of being snatched as a child by his white supremacist grandparents demonstrates the shaky and slippery nature of memory

Refusing the ‘confessional’ tag and unafraid to break songwriting rules, the Chicago musician has written one of the most acclaimed debut albums of the year