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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077103 | ISBN 10: 1786077108
From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice A TIME MAGAZINE 'MUST READ BOOK OF 2019' LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020 Patsy yearns to es ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509883622 | ISBN 10: 1509883622
"In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love."(Zadie Smith) Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret – these are the tensions at the heart of Alexia Arthurs’ debut book about Jamaican im ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474603614 | ISBN 10: 1474603610
From Kei Miller, the winner of the 2014 Forward Prize, a magical and haunting novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica. It is 11 April 1982 and a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071248 | ISBN 10: 178607124x
A finalist for the New York Public Library Fiction Award A Grand Prix Littéraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers Selection In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a m ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780748498 | ISBN 10: 1780748493
With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, this stunning debut is set in James’s native Jamaica. On a day beginning with a bad omen - black vultures, locally called John Crows ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780746357 | ISBN 10: 1780746350
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: WIRED GQ BBC CULTURE NEW YORK TIMES, Michiko Kakutani WASHINGTON POST ELECTRIC LITERATURE TIME PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AMAZON HUFFING ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843369 | ISBN 10: 1408843366
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Glori ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780753828083 | ISBN 10: 0753828081
A young Jamaican woman with a gift of prophecy embarks on a journey that will take her from a leper colony, to revivalist meetings, then to England. Once upon a time in Jamaica a young woman went somewhere that no one had visited for yea ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845231057 | ISBN 10: 1845231058
When his father dies in suspicious circumstances, Ferron Morgan’s trauma is increased by the conflict within his family and his father’s friends over whether the death is the result of medical negligence or a political assassination. Ferron has lived ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099507987 | ISBN 10: 0099507986
In Laura Fish’s ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her famil ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823118 | ISBN 10: 075382311x
In the small Jamaican village of Watergate a thief stirs - no fewer than three pairs of Tessa Walcott's panties have gone missing. When Imelda Richardson suggests forming a Neighbourhood Watch to curb the crimewave, she couldn't possibly have forse ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9789768184979 | ISBN 10: 9768184973
Bestselling author, successful songwriter, beauty queen wife, fame and fortune at the age of twenty-eight; handsome and well-endowed, Charlie seemed to have it made...or did he? Dance Tough Guys is the riveting story of Charlie's incredible ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780749082437 | ISBN 10: 0749082437
"She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into - the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world." But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney descendents of t ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780704347113 | ISBN 10: 0704347113
Two British women of Jamaican descent are confined to a psychiatric unit. One is prone to mood swings and sudden bursts of loud public singing; the other hears voices in her head. Both are considered 'mad'. As this remarkable and powerful story ... more
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