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Everyone Knows I am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Shivanee Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they... -
Creative Freedom: F Words by The F-Words Group
Booksplease Price: $17.31Creative 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... -
The Wonders of Vilayet: Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain in 1765 by Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin 9781900715157
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, a Bengali munchi employed by the East India Company, travelled on a mission to Britain to seek protection for the Mogul Emperor Shah Alam II. The mission was... -
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... -
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... -
Tell-Tales 4: The Global Village 9781845230791
Booksplease Price: $21.19Tell Tales Four is a groundbreaking collection of short stories from the UK-based Tell-Tale literary collective. Taking as its theme, The Global Village, Tell-Tales 4 has drawn writers together from... -
Kingdom of Gravity by Nick Makoha 9781845233334
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95As a child, Nick Mahoka fled Idi Amin's Uganda, and the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Amin. In political terms the poems chart the... -
A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Ismith Khan 9780948833090
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948833090Author Ismith KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Sunlight on Sweet Water by Beryl Gilroy 9780948833649
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.09Beryl Gilroy transports the reader back to the Guyanese village of her childhood over sixty years ago to meet such characters as Mr Dewsbury the Dog Doctor, Mama Darlin' the village midwife and Mr... -
Hurricane by Andrew Salkey 9781845231804
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.22Hurricane is the gripping story of a natural disaster and the thirteen year-old Kingston boy who lives to tell the tale.Holed up in their home, Joe Brown, his sister Mary and their parents wait for... -
Seduce by Desiree Reynolds 9781845232177
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95The word has gone out that Seduce is dead, and the mourners gather on Church Island in the Caribbean for her wake. All bring their own memories of Seduce: her daughter Glory prays for the rescue of... -
Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry by Nii Ayikwei Parkes 9781845234263
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Filigree typically refers to the finer elements of craftwork, the parts that are subtle; our 'Filigree' anthology contains work that plays with the possibilities that the word suggests, work that is... -
The Stranger Who Was Myself by Barbara Jenkins 9781845235345
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Barbara Jenkins writes about the experiences of a personal and family-centred life in Trinidad with great psychological acuteness, expanding on the personal with a deep awareness of the economic,... -
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 Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story by Monique Roffey 9781845234577
Booksplease Price: $6.02'Monique Roffey is a unique talent and most daring and versatile of writers' - Bernardine EvaristoMarch 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch. A fisherman sings to... -
Of Age and Innocence by Mr George Lamming 9781845231453
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71When the charismatic Isaac Shepherd returns to the island of San Christobal it is lead by an independence movement that for a time unites all the island's diverse groups - Africans, Indians and... -
Die the Long Day Orlando Patterson 9781845236175
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845236175Author Orlando PattersonFormat 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... -
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... -
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... -
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 -
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... -
Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow by Christine Barrow 9781845234171
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Listen carefully: a world within a world echoes in these short stories from Christine Barrow. Here, the unmuffled pulse of Barbados beats. Barrow brings us scenes of family squabbles, bitterly... -
The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of the Rainmakers by Harris Wilson 9781845231651
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.58In 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... -
Reader I Married Him & Other Queer Goings On Dorothea Smartt 9781845232870
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.50From the first poem to the last, Smartt's new chapbook collection advocates a revolutionary decampment from the madhouse of desires "reigned in" to protect a precarious and often incoherent code of... -
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 -
Our Lady of Demerara by David Dabydeen 9781845230692
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Drama critic Lance Yardley is only 30 but is already a seedy wreck of a man, spending his nights in the back streets of Coventry looking for prostitutes. A working-class boy brought up in a broken... -
The Fullness of Everything by Patricia Powell 9781845231132
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize Caribbean Award 2011.When Winston receives a telegram informing him of his father's imminent death, his decision to return to Jamaica is very reluctant. The memories... -
The Pain Tree by Olive Senior 9781845233488
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Winner 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... -
Rumba Atop the Stones by Orlando Ricardo Menes 9781900715492
Booksplease Price: $15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900715492Author Orlando Ricardo MenesFormat PaperbackPage Count 90I -
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 -
Patricia the Baby Manatee and Other Stories by Janet Jagan 9780948833922
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948833922Author Janet JaganFormat PaperbackImprint -
Intersections by Frances-Marie Coke 9781845230883
Booksplease Price: $12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230883Author Frances-Marie CokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprin -
The Butterfly Hotel by Roger Robinson 9781845232191
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Roger Robinson recently came to the attention of UK audiences in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten, hailed by Carol Ann Duffy as "a joyful and important moment in publishing".The Butterfly Hotel is his... -
Difficult Fruit Lauren K. Alleyne 9781845232276
Booksplease Price: $13.05Difficult 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: $20.03This 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,... -
Road Trip by Marvin Thompson 9781845234607
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Road Trip is a striking first collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell, and an accomplished craft in using traditional and contemporary forms. As a poet of Jamaican... -
Curry Flavour by Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming 9781900715355
Booksplease Price: $15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900715355Author Lelawattee Manoo-RahmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 120