Creative Freedom: The F Words anthology, features new work by eight of Yorkshire's most talented literary and visual artists. The writers and artists were asked to respond to the Parliamentary Act of
With?stories that create vividly sensual pictures of place and powerfully dramatic tension, this collection features?characters that?are driven by desire?for dignity and justice for a dead son, for pr
Told through the memories of John Campbell, an old man whose life goes back to the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865, this novel?is an intensely vivid narrative of the history of Jamaican nationalism. In t
A Room on the Hill is a devastating portrayal of an island society (much resembling 1950's St Lucia) suffocating in its smallness, its colonial hierarchies of race and class, and firmly in the grip of
A bleak portrayal of life on the Dungle?the rubbish heap where the very poorest squat?this beautifully poetic, existentialist novel turns an unwavering eye to life in the Jamaican ghetto. By interweav
Astonishingly vivid, bawdy, and tempestuous, this novel is a cautionary tale about greed and class conflict in postcolonial Guyana. Comparingruthless 20th-century prospectors to the long-ago Sp
What begins as a romantic tryst in a tropical setting quickly becomes, in this novel first published in 1938,?an imaginative exploration of two opposing cultural and economic frameworks in the?Caribbe
A sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, this story of one man's private grief and dislocation explores the psyche of?a nation and a cultural movement that has los
With a mature and accomplished voice, this novel explores the growth in presence of radical Islam within the Caribbean. Under the shadow of corporate imperialism, complete with disenfranchised islande
Studying the literature written in the West Indies as a regionally unified corpus with its own identity, this analysis examines the recurring thematic motifs and formal devices that Caribbean literary
This collection of work by the late Neville Dawes (1926-1984) makes available the fine poems that Dawes wrote, mostly between 19501970, some of which appeared in a long-vanished, slim volume, Sepia, p
In this coming-of-age novel, a young boy learns firsthand about the contradictions that bedevil the people of Guyana, including the legacy of slavery, the clash of cultural traditions, and the inhospi
Exploring the connections between writing and living, this collection of poems keeps alive a vision of essential human freedom that escapes from the confines of?nationalism and commerce. Moving betwee
When the charismatic Isaac Shephard returns to San Cristosal it is to lead an independence movement that for the first time unites the island's diverse groups - Africans, indians and Chinese - against
Exposing the political and cultural failure to address the challenges of postcolonial Trinidad, this insightful novel portrays a world where the working man must?face the crime and violence that is de
Candid and sensitive, this collection journeys between Africa, Europe, and the Americas as the poet explores his family history. Told with wit and an engaging ambivalence, these narrative poems explor
The essays in this collection range across the politics, literature, the visual arts, social commentary, memoirs and tributes. They encompass Guyana and the wider Caribbean, inclluding the suicide of
Kwame Dawes speaks for all those for whom reggae defines the major experiences of life. He describes how reggae has been central to his sense of selfhood, his consciousness of place and society in Ja
Exploring the complicated landscape of human interaction within the walls of the offices of Essential Products Ltd., this serious yet comedic novel offers a glimpse into 1940s Trinidad. Against the ba
Growing up gay in the small Greek-Bahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in He
