2022 Releases

Writings On British Caribbean ArtToday, around a million British people are of Caribbean descent, reflecting a history of post-war migration that essentially begins and ends with the Nationality Act of...

American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far...

*** ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 *** Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in...

‘Inventive, excellent … a pure pleasure to read’ THE TIMESIn this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.There is...

Ten People Who Shaped the World In a richly designed work with maps, portraits, and graphics throughout, the award-winning author of the Jumbies series shows readers this underrepresented side of...

Caribbean-British Art 1950s – NowThis fascinating book traces the connection between Britain and the Caribbean in the visual arts from the 1950s to today, a social and cultural history more...

Quick & Easy Plant-Based Caribbean RecipesThis delicious, vibrant Caribbean-influenced cookbook from the bestselling duo behind Original Flava includes over 100 easy recipes.Craig and Shaun McAnuff are all about maximum flava,...

Translated by Richard Philcox A mesmerizing novel from one of the most important writers working today, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize Francis Sancher, a handsome outsider, loved by some...

A Tale of Two IslandsA haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story.'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl...

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew. You want a home. You want to win back...

Earl Thomas, a straight-laced taxman with his fair share of police encounters, is the begrudging foreperson in a high-stakes trial in Miami. Laura Hurtado-Perez is a physician whose unassuming manner...

A reissue of revolutionary poems from the last three decades by cultural icon Linton Kwesi JohnsonA selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson's best poems over three decades. Ranging from protests against...

The more she wins, the more she loses…Someone is watching Etta. Footsteps in the night, the security light coming on at strange hours … is it all just her curtain-twitching...

WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story...

For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o’clock begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end. In early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teenager...

Mack never thought he'd find love, but now two boys want to be with him. Will he choose Karim or Finlay? And can true love last for ever? A must-read...

With another chance at love, what could possibly go wrong?Recovering from heartbreak, unlucky-in-love events manager Cara has vowed to avoid relationships. That is until fate throws her into the path...

My Life In WordsThe long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.Malorie Blackman OBE is one of...

Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60sA beautiful memoir written by the first Black female TV journalist about her experience migrating from the Caribbean to the UK, and...

The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racismArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study...

A Story Set in WarA riveting exploration of the unforeseen consequences of technological disruption, from the number 1 international bestselling authorWhat is the price of progress?In this tale of innovation...

In this sweeping debut, Asha Bromfield takes readers to the heart of Jamaica, and into the soul of a girl coming to terms with her family, and herself, set against...

Monsters are fake news, right? That's what many of the readers of the tabloid rag the Yellow Stringer think, but the truth is more frightening than anyone could possibly know....

What the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera — an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her...

At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years...

"The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try." — West African ProverbThe Muungano empire strived and struggled to...

Financial Wellness and How to Find It takes finance out of the business pages and into our personal lives. It tells us that the way we think about money has...

IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY... YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS. Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything...

These are the books you should read. This is the canon. Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay have curated a decolonized reading list that celebrates the wide and diverse...

A Walk in the HimalayasIn this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are...

Paris, 1889. Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Cana Brava rum empire, has sailed all the way from Santo Domingo with one purpose: expanding her family's business. Enter James Evanston...

A feminist thriller for anyone who's ever sworn revenge on an ex. Perfect for fans of How to Kill Your Family, You, Clickbait and Blood Orange.REVENGE IS BEST STREAMED LIVECharlotte...

Sisters, beware the 'Wasteman of Whitewell' . . . As host of radio show Brown Sugar, Kiki Banjo's mission is to protect her listeners from heartbreak. Which puts Whitewell College's...

At the Bottom of the Riveris Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl. Collecting pieces written for...

A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.Lucy, a teenage girl from the West...

A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred.Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond...

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the...

Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela’s vivid, visceral...

2022's most unforgettable debut soon to be a major Hulu series produced by OprahCrossing continents and juggling lives, Black Cake is a moving and powerful debut which spans sixty years...

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980sSequins for a Ragged Hem narrates Johnson's return tour to...

The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing Black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine EvaristoBeing denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office...