The book box that diversifies your bookshelf.
- Discover exciting new fiction by women from racial and ethnic minority groups.
- Join today, and be inspired by multicultural stories that question and crush stereotypes.
A brilliantly bookish subscription service
We’re the book box for feminists and changemakers who want to diversify and decolonise their bookshelf. With Heady Mix’s handpicked selection of the very best in female writing, our subscription book box makes it fast and easy for you to discover exciting new fiction.
Heady Mix will help you:
Be a better ally
By reading differently you’ll help spotlight female writers that aren’t getting the bookshelf space they deserve.
Broaden your entertainment
You’ll enjoy a unique reading experience immersed in a heady mix of awe-inspiring stories.
Enter a fun, new world of reading
Discover new people, places and perspectives that mainstream bookshops ignore. No more of the same boring books.
The Heady Mix book box is recommended by:
If you want to refresh your reading list or need a thoughtful gift for the bibliophile in your life, allow Heady Mix to do the work for you
Featured book box authors
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn, the author of Here Comes the Sun, talks to Heady Mix about growing up in Jamaica and how her formative years influenced the narrative of her novel, along with her concern with the disparity between local life and the face of tourism in Caribbean nations. ⠀
Click the red button for our interview and an exclusive reading.
Here Comes the Sun featured in Heady’s Mix Section 28 collection that showcased writing about the LGBTIQ+ community.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
Ausma Zehanat Khan is the award-winning author of the hugely successful Khattak and Getty crime novel series. This sequence of books has brought Ausma critical acclaim for stories centred on solving crimes in some of Canada’s most vulnerable communities.
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Click the red button for our interview and an exclusive reading.
No Place of Refuge featured in Heady’s Mix Lost and Found collection that showcased writing about the myriad of the refugee experience.
Past book box collections
Every one of the collections in our book subscription box membership is focused on multiculturalism we spotlight the people, places or perspectives that don’t have enough representation in Western culture. You will always learn something new with us.
California Dreaming
Section 28
The aim of our collections
By reading the multicultural and diverse stories contained in the Heady Mix book book subscription box, you’ll not only enjoy new ways to view and understand the world and those in it, but you’ll also become a better ally to these underrepresented groups.
Book reviews, articles and short films
Not only do we offer the UK’s only book subscription box focused on decolonising fiction, multiculturalism and diversity, we have a wide-ranging online library featuring articles, author guest posts, short films and documentaries to help you more deeply explore each season’s theme and become a better ally to women from ethnic and racial minority groups.
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