10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Manifesto

"A powerful and entertaining memoir and manifesto for an unstoppable courageous life by Booker prize winning Evaristo."

View All Editions

Available now from Audiobooks.com. Start your free trial today. Buy from Audiobooks.com
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

LoveReading Says

LoveReading Says

When Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker prize in 2019, aged 60, for her eighth novel Girl, Woman, Other, she made history.

After 40 years in creative industries, everything changed as she became the first black woman to win the prize in the fifty years since its inception.

This memoir is a page-turning, intimate and brave account of her life. Convinced that fame and success would come, this autobiographical story of her unstoppable journey towards her many accolades is an inspiration as she shares her life stages from her birth in Eltham in 1959 through her upbringing and cultural background, her influences and inspirations.

One of 8 children of a fearsome Nigerian father and white English mother, we learn about her bi-racial childhood, early experiences of racism and the challenges of growing up as a mixed race woman which ultimately set Evaristo on the path of rebellion and freedom.  

The chapters take us through her heritage as an independent middle child in an inter-racial family in a predominantly white area. Through her years as a nomadic Londoner living out of bin bags. Through the men and women who came and went, all culminating in her finding her soulmate.

We see her creative journey from theatre-maker, writer of poetry to fiction and her becoming the award-winning writer she is today. The book concludes with her Manifesto.

We see the potential, the possibilities, the rewards if you are brave enough, her refusal to conform and her passion for fighting for what she believes in.

Although in her conclusion she concedes that these days instead of throwing stones at the fortress she sits inside its chambers having polite, persuasive persistent conversations about how best to transform outmoded infrastructures.

She is formidable in every sense and I warmed to her and am inspired by her.

She tells us of her addiction to the adventure of storytelling and I am in awe of that storytelling.

Manifesto is about life, love, courage, community, creativity, activism and optimism. And I for one could not get enough of it. I’ll be pressing this book into the hands of people for years and imploring them to read it and everything she writes.

We need more Evaristos in this world, that’s for sure. It’s a powerful manifesto from a trailblazer and a reminder that there is a manifesto in all of us.

LoveReading

Audiobooks of the Month
Star Books

Find This Book In

Primary Genre Biographies & Autobiographies
Other Genres:
Recommendations:

About

Press Reviews

Author

Collections Featuring This Book

You Might Also Like...

Self-Contained Scenes from a single life

Emma John

Paperback

In Stock

£8.99 £9.99

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

Paperback

In Stock

£9.89 £10.99

Lesbian Love Story

Amelia Possanza

Hardback

In Stock

£18.00 £20.00

My Good Bright Wolf

Sarah Moss

Hardback

In Stock

£17.09 £18.99

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

Paperback

In Stock

£9.89 £10.99

The Twelve Dels of Christmas

David Jason

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99