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Henry Swanzy: The Selected Diaries: Ichabod 1948-58 by Henry Swanzy
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.32Henry Swanzy (1915-2004) has an unrivalled position as the midwife of Caribbean writing in the post 1950s period. As the editor of the BBC Caribbean Voices programme (initiated by Una Marson) between... -
Creative Freedom: F Words by The F-Words Group
Booksplease Price: $16.96Creative Freedom: The FWords 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... -
Poems of Good Love...and Sometimes Fantasy by Pedro Mir
Booksplease Price: $13.83The publication of Jonathan Cohen's translation of Poemas de buen amor... y a veces de fantasia, by the great national poet of the Dominican Republic, and an unquestionably major Caribbean poet,... -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $37.87The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body... -
The Godmother and other Stories Jan Lowe Shinebourne 9781900715874
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900715874Author Jan Lowe ShinebourneFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imp -
Heartland by Harris Wilson 9781845230968
Booksplease Price: $18.45This visionary novel follows the inner journey of Zechariah Stevenson, the son of a wealthy Georgetown businessman, while he works as the watchman at a timber depot deep within the interior. Isolated... -
Angel by Merle Collins 9781845231859
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41First published to great acclaim in 1987, Angel begins in 1951, when the workers of Grenada revolted against the white estate owners, moving forward to 1983 when the US invaded to put an end to a... -
After-Image Dennis Scott 9781845230241
Booksplease Price: $16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230241Author Dennis ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint < -
The Strange Years of My Life by Nicholas Laughlin 9781845232924
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95"I never thought I would come all this wayto come all this way."The troupe of "friends" and "strangers" whom the reader meets in these poems are sometimes alter egos, sometimes aliases, sometimes... -
Huracan by Diana McCaulay 9781845231965
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York at fifteen following her parents' divorce. In the wake of her mother's death fifteen years later, she returns to the island to find her estranged father and... -
Four Taxis Facing North Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw 9781845233471
Booksplease Price: $23.27In Trinidad, oil wealth supported the growth of probably the most prosperous and conspicuously consuming middle-class in the Caribbean. But there was a price to pay for the deepened social... -
The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of the Rainmakers by Harris Wilson 9781845231651
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95In 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean. These are brought... -
Pepper Seed by Malika Booker 9781845232115
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Her poems are widely published in anthologies and journals including, "Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women's Poetry," "Black &... -
Slave Song by David Dabydeen 9781845230043
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.09"Slave Song" is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean/Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the... -
Democratic Advance and Conflict Resolution in Post-Colonial Guyana by Judaman Seecoomar 9781845230272
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230272Author Judaman SeecoomarFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
New Day by Victor Stafford Reid 9781845230906
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.27New Day is set on the eve of the achievement of universal adult suffrage in Jamaica in 1944 and the rise of the mass political parties of the nationalist movement. It is told through the memories of... -
The Hills Were Joyful Together by Roger Mais 9781845231002
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Bending and manipulating the linear narrative structures of conventional fiction, this stark and brutal novel--originally published in 1953--is a powerful reflection on colonial Jamaica and the... -
Ladies Are Upstairs, The by Merle Collins 9781845231798
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09From the 1930s to the new century, Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins' most memorable characters, negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz. As a child there is the shame of poverty and... -
Irki by Kadija Sesay 9781845232085
Booksplease Price: $15.49The poems in Irki rise out of Kadija Sesay's experiences - amusing, loving, confusing, sad - of growing up in foster care in the UK after leaving her home country of Sierra Leone.'Irki' means... -
The Governor's Story: The Authorised Biography of Dame Hilda Bynoe by Merle Collins 9781845232245
Booksplease Price: $24.47In Grenada in 1968, Dr Hilda Bynoe was appointed as one of the very first local governors in the Caribbean in the years just before formal independence, and the first woman, and black woman, to be... -
The Pain Tree by Olive Senior 9781845233488
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, The Pain Tree is Olive Senior at her very best, unforgettable short stories set in Jamaica and Canada, now available in this beautiful UK and... -
Highway in the Sun Sam Selvon 9780948833076
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55The first Indian indentured labourers arrived in the Caribbean over 150 years ago. But how are the Indian characters in these plays to live in 20th century Trinidad? These plays explore their... -
Crown Point and Other Poems by Dr Velma Pollard 9780948833243
Booksplease Price: $15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948833243Author Velma PollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Difficult Fruit Lauren K. Alleyne 9781845232276
Booksplease Price: $13.16Difficult Fruit grapples with personal experience - with naming and claiming the 'fruits' of a specific journey into womanhood. This journey is one which includes coming to terms with violence and... -
Creole Chips: Fiction, Poetry and Articles by Edgar Mittelholzer by Edgar Mittelholzer 9781845233006
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.98This compendium of Edgar Mittelholzer's uncollected by Juanita Cox, brings together his early collection of sketches of Georgetown life, Creole Chips, his speculative novella, The Adding Machine,... -
Connecting Medium Dorothea Smartt 9781900715508
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.09"Connecting Medium links the past to the present, the Caribbean to England, mothers to fathers. Here are poems about identity and culture, generations and the future. A powerful sequence of poems... -
The Timherian by Andrew Jefferson-Miles 9781900715539
Booksplease Price: $21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900715539Author Andrew Jefferson-MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96 -
A Swarthy Boy: A Childhood in British Guiana by Edgar Mittelholzer 9781845233556
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Edgar Mittelholzer’s autobiography, first published in 1963, which covers the first eighteen years of his life, was his first return in writing to about his native Guyana, of memory and imagination,... -
The House in Bacolet David Lambert 9781845235970
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845235970Author David LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint -
The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar by Kevin Baldeosingh 9781845230005
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.56'Tell me if I am mad,' Adam Avatar, a copper-skinned man with startling green eyes, asks Dr. Surendra Sankar, a psychiatrist in Trinidad. Aged forty-nine, there is some urgency in his request, since... -
The Impossibility of Nothingness Ian McDonald 9781845236304
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845236304Author Ian McDonaldFormat PaperbackImprint -
Stranger at the Gate by John Hearne
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845234546Author John HearneFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint -
Equal to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo Christopher Laird 9781845235628
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71When the Trinidadian novelist, Harold Sonny Ladoo was found dead soon after the publication of his classic novel, No Pain Like This Body, for Christopher Laird, it became an obsession to try to... -
Not Quite Without a Moon Ian McDonald 9781845235581
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Ian McDonald's Collected Poems (2018) was marked by a late flush of exceptional new poems that addressed both the infirmities of ageing as well as its continuing joys. That flow of memory has... -
Chinese Women Jan Lowe Shinebourne 9781845231514
Booksplease Price: $18.40Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2011.Pairing Caribbean wounds with the grievances of political Islam, this intriguing novel begins as a sad story of unrequited love on a Guyanese... -
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies by Kei Miller
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97When Kei Miller describes these as essays and prophecies, he shares with the reader a sensibility in which the sacred and the secular, belief and scepticism, and vision and analysis engage in... -
The Una Marson: Selected Poems by Una Marson 9781845231682
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Una Marson is widely recognised as 'the earliest female poet of significance to emerge in West Indian literature', but whilst her role as an early feminist and a 'first woman' publisher, broadcaster,... -
A Leaf in His Ear: Selected Poems by Mahadai Das 9781900715591
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68When Mahadai Das died at the tragically early age of 49, there was an outpouring of grief across the Caribbean that a poet, who never quite had the chance to build a literary career to match her... -
Marking Time E. A. Markham 9781900715294
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Pewter Stapleton is drowning under a pile of marking. He teaches creative writing at a university in Sheffield, a campus peopled with malign cost-cutting accountants, baffled security staff and... -
Chinese Lanterns from the Blue Child Anthony McNeill 9781900715188
Booksplease Price: $14.31Anthony McNeill was without doubt amongst the finest contemporary Caribbean poets, whose previous collections were hailed as works of immense originality. Chinese Lanterns from the Blue Child won the...