Lawrence Hill writes fiction and non-fiction about race, migration, identity and the histories linking Africa, Europe and North America. The Book of Negroes follows Aminata Diallo from childhood abduction in West Africa through enslavement in the American colonies, the Revolutionary War, resettlement in Nova Scotia and later movements connected with the Black Loyalist diaspora. The novel uses one woman's life to connect several documented episodes in Atlantic slavery and migration. Some Great Thing examines race, media and politics in Canada, while The Illegal follows a refugee and elite runner living without legal status in a fictional country. Hill's books are accessible, research-based and strongly interested in the bureaucratic systems that determine who is recognised, recorded or excluded. The Book of Negroes is the clearest entry for readers of historical fiction about slavery and the Black Atlantic; The Illegal shifts those concerns into contemporary refugee politics. Read more Less
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