Fire Rush (Jonathan Cape, UK; Viking, US), a novel sixteen years in the making from Jamaica-born, UK-based Jacqueline Crooks, centres Black womanhood in 1970s London and Bristol. Longlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Fire Rush follows protagonist Yamaye through a dancehall and dub-infused club scene, while she yearns for deeper connections to her Jamaican culture. The England Crooks describes in her prose is indelibly steeped in Caribbean customs, from music to food to language patterns: proof of the permanence wrought by migration and resettlement, even in a xenophobic Great Britain.