Dangerous Freedom
Dangerous Freedom (Papillote Press) by Trinidad-born Lawrence Scott, a historical novel set in the 18th century and based on the true story of a mixed-race child brought up in the home of England’s Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield.
Fortune
Fortune (Peepal Tree), the third novel by Irish-Trinidadian Amanda Smyth, centred on a tragic but almost forgotten 1928 fire in Trinidad’s oilfield belt.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (Tinder Press), the first novel by Barbadian Cherie Jones, a story of love and sacrifice set in the author’s home country.
Like a Tree, Walking
Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet), the latest book of poems by Trinidad-born Vahni Capildeo, winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
Mother Muse
Mother Muse (Carcanet), a new collection of poems by Jamaican Lorna Goodison, who recently completed her term as Poet Laureate of Jamaica.
No Gods, No Monsters
No Gods, No Monsters (Blackstone), the second novel by USVI-born Cadwell Turnbull, a speculative tale tackling contemporary racism and violence
One Day, One Day, Congotay
One Day, Congotay (Peepal Tree), the long-awaited third novel by beloved Trinidadian writer Merle Hodge, author of the classic Crick Crack Monkey.
One Thousand Eyes
One Thousand Eyes (UWI Press), the latest novel by Jamaica-born, Trinidad-based Barbara Lalla, speculative fiction set in the Caribbean after a catastrophic event.
Riff
Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press), Philip Nanton’s groundbreaking biography of the late Vincentian poet and musician.
The Bread the Devil Knead
The Bread the Devil Knead (Myriad) byT&T’s Lisa Allen-Agostini, a “domestic noir of sex and survival” set in contemporary Trinidad.
Things I Have Withheld
Things I Have Withheld (Canongate), a new collection of essays by Jamaica-born Kei Miller, winner of the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
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).
Velorio
Velorio (HarperVia), the debut novel by Puerto Rican Xavier Navarro Aquino, to be published simultaneously in English and Spanish.
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
Waiting for the Waters to Rise (World Editions), by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox, the latest novel by the revered Guadeloupean writer to be translated into English.
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.
What Noise Against the Cane
What Noise Against the Cane (Yale), the debut book of poems by Trinidad-born, US-based Desiree C. Bailey, “a lyric quest for belonging and freedom.”
Where the Rhythm Takes You
Where the Rhythm Takes You (Balzer + Bray), the debut of T&T’s Sarah Dass, a young adult novel inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion and set in Tobago.
Minshall By Norton
Persuasion
The Murders of Boysie Singh
Where There Are Monsters
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 […]
Lucille Mathurin Mair
The two latest titles in the UWI Press Caribbean Biography Series examine the lives of influential Jamaican scholars. Verene Shepherd’s Lucille Mathurin Mair traces the career and evolving ideology of a woman who was a “professional historian, wife, mother, mentor, diplomat, national and international civil servant, legislator, and women’s rights activist,” always concerned with principles […]
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 […]
Deep Indigo
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 […]
City Twilight
Described as “sun and horizon, the bridge between light and darkness, Jouvay and Las Lap,” City Twilight (Anaphora Literary Press), the third book of poems by Trinidadian Dawad Philip, offers narrative vignettes in verse that reflect on the poet’s various journeys — physical, emotional, and imaginative, with a selection of poems tackling the COVID-burdened world […]
Stick No Bills
The third book of fiction by Trinidadian Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Stick No Bills (Peepal Tree Press) is a collection of twenty-two short stories which elegantly and artfully explore personal and family histories, pleasure and loss, and the slippery border zone between memory and invention. A sense of the passage of time, and its tolls, is delicately […]