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Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner, creative writing tutor and author of two novels; 'Bad Love', which won the 2021 Betty Trask award, and 'The Rest Of You' due for publication in October 2024 with Verve Books (UK) and Amistad Books (US). Her short stories have been published in 'Joyful, Joyful' (Pan Macmillan), 'Not Quite Right For Us' (Flipped Eye Publishing) and 'New Australian Fiction 2020' (Kill Your Darlings). Maame is a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and was a 2022 POCC Artist-in-Residence. She contributes regularly to Royal Literary Fund publication Writers Mosaic and The Bookseller Magazine, and her writing has appeared in many places including Refinery29, Black Ballad and The Independent. She teache ...more

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	Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos by Molly Llewellyn (Editor), Kristel Buckley (Editor), Venita Blackburn 3.49 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Love: Twenty in 2020 3.70 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rest of You: A Hopeful Black British Family Drama of Friendship, Trauma, and Healing 3.60 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Australian Fiction 2020 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Maame Blue (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Claire G. Coleman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.73 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Journal (#3) by Courttia Newland (Editor), Nikesh Shukla (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Irfan Master 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Quite Right For Us by Amina Atiq, Francesca Beard, Sharmilla Beezmohun (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychotherapy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty Fourteen: A Recollection by Maame Blue (Goodreads Author), Frankie Withers (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Britain on the way home

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They are telling us they want us out, and maybe we would like to leave.

I have moved out of Britain, away from the country I grew up in. I know many Black and brown people who are doing the same, or are talking about doing the same. At the moment, Britain feels like a hard place to be.

In the summer of 2025, I visited a Ghanaian takeaway shop in Barking. Th

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