"The Death of Vivek Oji is here – and it's perfect. It's a wonderful thing to be able to press a novel like this into someone's hands, firm in the belief they will love it mightily and be changed by their time with it. If you know of Akwaeke Emezi, you already know what to expect: their work is arresting, propulsive, electric, beautiful, potent and thoroughly unlike anything else. Like Emezi's previous work Freshwater and YA novel Pet, this book is exquisite in form and breathtaking down to its smallest detail. The Death of Vivek Oji explores what it looks like to choose yourself: to dare to do so – and to be completely loved as you do so – despite incredible opposition and denial. Akwaeke Emezi is a non-binary trans Igbo and Tamil writer based in liminal spaces; similarly, the protagonist Vivek Oji transcends the rigid ideas of gender, nationality, life/death, and separation of spiritual & ancestral realms of his upbringing. It's impossible in such short space to do justice to this masterpiece or to capture even a fraction of Vivek's brief but glorious and expansive life: just read this book!" – Emma.

"Simpson is an incredible storyteller and has written a lyrical, most beautiful family saga. Three generations of the Billymil family have grown up in Darnmoor, a gateway town. Watched over by ancestral spirits who guide their family along the right path, the Billymil family story is of trauma and survival in the face of change. The writing itself will do more for acknowledgment of something special than my adjectives and description or even winning the Black&Write fellowship does; so here is an excerpt from the end of the book which offers the meaning behind the book’s title: This song was given to me by my master and is the last I will sing. It is the Song of the Crocodile, the greatest, most powerful song in this country. The song will lure it into the floodplains where it will face its end. This is why you are here, why you were born and have already died. We have to sing the crocodile so that lore can start again. Perfection!" – Dean.