Thinking With Trees
Thinking With Trees (Carcanet), the debut book of poems by Jason Allen-Paisant, born in Jamaica and currently based in the United Kingdom.
This One Sky Day
This One Sky Day (Faber), the latest novel by Jamaica-British Leone Ross, a fantasy love story which will also be published in the US under the title Popisho (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk About a Little Culture
We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk About a Little Culture (Peepal Tree), a long-anticipated collection of essays by the influential Jamaica-born scholar and critic Sylvia Wynter.
A Million Aunties
The latest novel from France-based Jamaican writer Alecia McKenzie, A Million Aunties (Blouse & Skirt Books/Akashic) follows an American-born artist as he travels back to Jamaica, his mother’s home island, in the aftermath of a personal tragedy. There “he discovers a new extended and complicated ‘family,’” in this often surprising novel about love and friendship […]
Motherland and Other Stories
Motherland and Other Stories, the debut book of short fiction by US-based Jamaican Wandeka Gayle (Peepal Tree Press), gives us a series of young Black women who “win our hearts as risk-taking, adventurous explorers of the white world, away from home, which at some point has been Jamaica.” With settings ranging from Britain to the […]
Cane Warriors
Set in 1760, Cane Warriors (Black Sheep), the latest young adult novel by Alex Wheatle, is a fictional account of a key but often overlooked event in Jamaican history: Tacky’s Rebellion, a major revolt by enslaved Africans, planned via an island-wide conspiracy. In Wheatle’s narrative, a fourteen-year-old named Moa is caught up in the growing […]