Author interview: ‘Publishers presumed if you were born into slavery, you had no voice’

Actor Paterson Joseph's Shakespearean credits extend the length of your arm and he was a regular scene stealer in 'Peep Show' and he is also now an award-winning novelist

Paterson Joseph won the 2023 Christopher Bland Prize from the Royal Society of Literature for 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho'. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty

• The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho 
• Paterson Joseph 
• Dialogue Books, hb £16.99