Bagoo takes a long view of the short story and has a particular gift for stories made of stories. There is pathos here, and sometimes anger, but above all Bagoo is a very funny writer, his crystal-clear prose making the most of his dry, self-deprecating humour.
In this narrative rooted in soil and spread by whispers, Nii Ayikwei Parkes brings a metaphor of resource-rich countries to vivid life in prose peppered with nods to fairy tales,... Læs mere
When the Trinidadian novelist, Harold Sonny Ladoo was found dead soon after the publication of his classic novel, No Pain Like This Body, for Christopher... Læs mere
"An unrivalled and often witty account of the Caribbean Voices and West African Voices programmes and the writing personalities involved in the crucial 1950s period." - DAVID DABYDEEN
As he enters his nineties, the poet's world has become, increasingly, his house and garden, his wife, children and grandchildren, a world experienced as no less rich than anything in the past - indeed ever more precious for its evanescence.
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Adam Lowe's debut collection takes us on a journey rich in observation and always in a poetry that makes an art of patterflash.
Through a mix of fictive narrative, letters and poetry, Ocean Stirrings... Læs mere
Beautifully crafted, honest and thoughtful first collection which explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’, unmappable, positionality.
Colonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories.
Incisive social and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of this collection, where individual poems are enriched by their place in the whole and their dialogue with each other.
This collection of essays celebrates the SI Leeds Literary prize for unpublished fiction by black and Asian women writers. These are important words spoken by important women about... Læs mere
An unrivalled and very entertaining picture of the various and sometimes bizarre strands of Indian lives in colonial Trinidad. Seepersad Naipaul is a pioneer, combining insight with high style, however strange or mundane his subject.