Your Next Read - Introducing Caleb Azumah Nelson And Daisy Buchanan

Judith Robinson talks to two debut authors about their powerful novels that examine the complex nature of love, longing and lust. Raw, tender, funny and honest – you will want to share these novels with everyone you know.

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson sees two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.