Keema is back and dirtier than ever in this sequel to bestselling novel, Welfare Grind. After oddly maneuvering her way out of the blood bath she left behind in Arizona, Keema is up to her old tricks again. Between sex, greed and murder it s almost impossible to escape from the hood life she's grown accustomed to. From one scam to the next, she finally comes up with a new hustle that rains money and is sure to give her the riches she thinks she deserves; that is until someone from her past emerges sending her into mental shock. The stakes become high as Keema fights for her life, still with her mind on her money. While stacking paper, Keema also stacks enemies...old and new. Unfortunately for her, her street savvy mentality may not be enough to get her off this time.

Kennedy Sanchez is a 22-year-old |round the way girl| with a heart of gold. After partying in Las Vegas, Kennedy and her cousin Nina fly back home to New York. That night, Nina's kids call Kennedy to tell her that Nina's boyfriend is beating her. Kennedy rushes to help but it's too late - Nina dies in Kennedy's arms after making her promise to take care of her kids. Then Kennedy is offered a chance to become a rapper and leave the streets behind. But once she's in the music world, she realises that the scenery may have changed but the hustle is still the same.

In this high-octane psychological thriller, a young woman grows up battling rape, eating and sexual disorders, husbands, miscarriage, corporate and police corruption, and the Mafia. Ultimately she finds herself and the true meaning of passion.

Tara was raised by the streets. With a professional booster for a mother and a pimp for a daddy, a life of crime is the family business, so Tara has no choice but to major in and graduate with a degree in “Hustling 101.” By the age of eighteen, Tara has found and honed in on her niche: boosting the best pieces of merchandise from the best boutiques and department stores in the city. She has become known as one of the baddest boosters on the East Coast, second only to her mother. With Tara next in line to the throne, she is the puppet master for all the people who want to get close to her family. She lives for control, until she meets a Dominican kingpin named Julio. The power shifts as Tara falls in love and out of control. The influences in Tara’s life lead her to make life-changing decisions. Will love find a way? Will Tara become next to reign over the family business, or is there someone with other plans for her?

Adventure, love trauma and heartache make up this action packed story about Larry Matchell a young man growing up in west Auckland New Zealand. It displays the everyday life as he plonders on through it stumbling from New Zealand to Australia and back, Searching for adventure and love. The ups and downs. The heartache, the troublesome situations he found himself in the best way he could find his way out. His hunting expeditions, the dive trips, surfing, women and Australia and the incarceration which changed him for better or worse, but always found his way back to where he belonged and that was West Auckland until something happened in his life that would change everything forever.

The first collection of plays by the multi-award winning playwright and winner of the 2001 "Most Promising Playwright" Evening Standard Theatre Award THE NO BOYS CRICKET CLUB (1996): Living alone on a drab London council estate, Abi has long since lost sight of the good things in life, until an old friend takes her back to her glorious past in Jamaica as the greatest all-rounder of the No Boys Cricket Club. STARSTRUCK (1997): is a hilarious and moving snapshot of the hopes and broken dreams of a family in the Caribbean at a time when Hollywood heart-throb Stewart Granger lands in Kingston to shoot his latest movie. It was the winner of the John Whiting Award and the Alfred Fagon award (1997). LIFT OFF (1999): When old time school friends Mal and Tone begin to break their lifelong friendship, bitter prejudices are brought to the fore. Joint-winner of the George Devine Award 2000. "Williams' writing snaps and crackles, his characters burst with life, emotion and contradiction" Guardian "Williams, a young, prolific and successful black British writer...certainly has a gift" Sunday Times "Roy Williams shows himself to be a sassy, sophisticated diviner of the human heart" Evening Standard

Beautiful Menace (or Viral Violence) Half Japanese and half Jamaican, Aoki is young, beautiful, and known throughout her Brooklyn neighborhood as a menace to local authorities. On the eve of a brutal murder that hits close to home, Aoki needs her friends more than ever. Her ride-or-die besties, Tisa and Ri-Ri, are down to help by any means necessary, even if it puts their own freedom at risk. While coming up in the drug game, AZ gets into a situation he can't handle on his own. When he reaches out to Aoki - an unlikely ally - the girls agree to handle his problem for a small fee. When surveillance video of the conquest goes viral, the Brooklyn hood chicks are transformed into Killer Dolls. This overnight fame brings heat to the Killer Dolls, with jealousy, envy, and a dark secret threatening to destroy everything.

**LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE** An uncompromising, darkly humorous look at life in the criminal underworld of the Irish border from a major new Irish literary voice. Dundalk—The Town, to locals—took Aoife in when she left home at eighteen. Now she’s gone from a small-time slinger of hash to a bona fide player in Dundalk’s criminal underworld. Aoife’s smart, savvy, and cool under pressure. Except, that is, when it comes to Annie. Annie is mysterious and compelling, and Aoife is desperate to impress her and keep her close. Unfortunately, not everyone in The Town shares Aoife’s opinion of Annie. So much so that when Aoife’s friend and associate, the Rat King, approaches her about off-loading ten kilos of stolen coke, he specifically tells her to keep Annie out of it. Aoife doesn’t want to do the job without Annie, though, so she lands on an idea. Annie has contacts in the UK, and sure it’d be better to get the coke as far away from Dundalk as possible. At first, everything goes to plan. But when Annie decides she'd like to stay in the UK, Aoife makes a decision that changes everything, and finds her whole world turned upside down. Gritty yet tender, tragic yet hopeful, Iron Annie crackles with energy, warmth, and heart. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL.

“A rich comedic portrait of American family life, public schools, and politics.” —The Caravaggio Art Center Bulletin “Sexual dysfunction and presidential stupidity have never been so sadly riveting and distressingly familiar.” —Welders Weekly Gazette “A perfect representation of postmodern despair: hopeless civic cynicism and individual apathy produce a sense of futility that recent cultural history more than seems to justify. ... A must-read.” —Nihilism Next