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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£11.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913867331 | ISBN 10: 1913867331
Translated by Robin Myers San Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab trade ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472268792 | ISBN 10: 1472268792
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912987153 | ISBN 10: 1912987155
Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he's carried with him since his ar ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846592072 | ISBN 10: 1846592070
So Many Islands breaks out bold new writing from the distant shores of countries in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific oceans. Here you will find poems about revolution and protest. You will be transported to Marakei, ‘the women’s i ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781616961985 | ISBN 10: 1616961988
Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American fiction. She has been dubbed “one of our most important writers,” (Junot Diaz), with “an imagination that most of us wou ... more
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£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
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780803271487 | ISBN 10: 0803271484
Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visit ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847088628 | ISBN 10: 1847088627
In the opening pages of this novel, an accident brings a young girl to the attention of the Preacher, the all-powerful leader of a religious cult secluded in the jungle. Trina has only dim memories of the life she lived with her mother before they jo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007348657 | ISBN 10: 0007348657
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781936070657 | ISBN 10: 1936070650
Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating earthquake. Featuring brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Elo ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847395221 | ISBN 10: 1847395228
When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her only solace is h ... more
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£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
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£7.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141185422 | ISBN 10: 0141185422
In her brilliant novel, Jean Rhys rescues the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and brings her to life as the beautiful and tragic Antoinette Cosway. The story takes us to Antoinette's beguiling Caribbean island, a lush and rav ... more
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