Banana Bottom
Bita Plant is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors and returns to her home village of Banana Bottom seven years later a beautiful, cultured young lady.
Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew)
Set in a small Haitian village called Fonds-Rouge, this classic of Caribbean literature has been translated into many languages since first published in French in 1944.
Brother Man
Originally published in 1954 and acclaimed around the world as one of the classics of Caribbean fiction, Brother Man is the tragic story of an honest Rastafarian healer caught up in a web of intrigue and betrayal in Jamaica’s tough West Kingston slums.
My Bones and My Flute
Mittelholzer subtitled his 1955 novel “A Ghost Story in the Old-fashioned Manner”, and there is more than a hint of tongue-in-cheek in this thoroughly entertaining work, though it rises to a pitch of genuine terror and has serious things to say about the need to exorcise the crimes of slavery that still echo into the […]
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
Poétique de la relation (Poetics of Relation)
Cereus Blooms at Night
Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin and the tempestuous history of her family. At the heart of this bold and seductive novel is an alleged crime committed many years before the story opens.
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: a novel in bass riddim
El reino de este mundo (The Kingdom of This World)
El reino de este mundo (The Kingdom of This World) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish. First published in English translation in 1957, The Kingdom of This World is now widely recognised as a masterpiece of Cuban and Caribbean literature. A work of historical fiction, it tells the story of Haiti before, during, […]
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
Crick Crack, Monkey
Praisesong for the Widow
Salt
Midnight Robber
University of Hunger: Collected Poems and Selected Prose
The Bone Readers
Moi, Tituba, Sorcière…Noire de Salem (I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem)
Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks)
Pluie et vent sur Telumée Miracle (The Bridge of Beyond)
The Groundings With My Brothers
In the Castle of My Skin
In the Castle of My Skin, the first and much acclaimed novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, tells the story of the mundane events in a young boy’s life that take place amid dramatic changes in the village and society in which he lives. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award.
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes on Belonging
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy
I Am Becoming My Mother
In Lorna Goodison’s poetry collection, she focuses on the “The Mother”, the female element, evoked in her title.
Ancestors
A sweeping historical epic in the vein of Dante or Milton, by the Barbadian poet and historian Kamau Brathwaite. Brathwaite divides the poem into three sections, “Mother Poem,” “Sun Poem,” and “X/Self,” and then smaller sections containing individual poems.
Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (Notebook of A Return to My Native Land)
Césaire’s masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture. “Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Césaire’s quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis […]
What the Twilight Says
Myal
Voyage in the Dark
