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Award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the meanings of silence in this collection of provocative and lyrical essays.In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and...

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...

USA TODAY bestselling author Adriana Herrera returns with a new historical romance novel, following A Caribbean Heiress in ParisOne last summer.For Manuela del Carmen Caceres Galvan, the invitation to show...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookFrom the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think...

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...

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...

* WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 * Launching a major new literary voice for 2023, Hungry Ghosts is a mesmerising novel about violence, religion, family...

A joyously satisfying will-they-won't-they love story about a young woman finding her feet and forging her own destiny, set against the backdrop of the Trinidadian beauty industryBianca Bridge has always...

 An epic historical novel of love, revenge and piracy on the high seas 1656, Saint-Domingue. In the dark confines of a cell, a prisoner is waiting. Soon the hangman will...

'With the sharp and delectable music of its dialect, the book grabs you by its teeth from the first page and never quite lets go . . . This is...

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward unexpected love and unimaginable power. With their signature "prowess" (FIYAH) and "unbridled creativity" (New York...

A coming-of-age celebration of food, family and finding your voice, for fans of The Girl with the Louding Voice Fourteen-year-old Pumkin Patterson lives in a two-room house in Kingston Jamaica...

From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility With equal humour, sorrow...

“A love letter to Harlem and hope. I Rise is smart and funny and full of heart.*” Fourteen-year-old Ayo who has to decide whether to take on her mother’s activist...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize Salt is an extraordinary tour de force by one of the pre-eminent literary presences in the Caribbean, a novel which explores like none before it...

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that her fiancé's family may have...

A STIRRING GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar...

A Jamaican memoir An extraordinary and inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience, from award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair. There was more than one way to be lost, more than one...

Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband,...

In honor of Bob Marley's 75th birthday and the 40th anniversary of "Redemption Song," a powerful tribute that allows longtime fans, and budding activists looking for exemplary heroes in a...

Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker caught between two cultures.As childhood memory is...

The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new...

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...

‘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...

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love.When Fly and Stela meet in...

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...

‘To say I was surprised at the volume of positive feedback I received from around the world after my comments on Sky Sports is an understatement. I came to realise...

High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez.It is a book centred on one extended family – the Belens...

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...

StoriesFor readers of David Wong, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and...

A Faulkner-esque Classic of Trinidadian literature — No Pain Like This Body is a lost masterpiece of contemporary fiction.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONIQUE ROFFEYIn the Caribbean, at the beginning of...

Translated by Marjolijn de Jaeger A staggeringly powerful story of migration, struggle and sisterhood, weaving together the stories of three women with very different backgrounds but one shared goal: to...

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...

More than 100 delicious, easy, and colorful vegan dinners on a budget from the founder of the massive social media platform Cooking for Peanuts, with a foreword by Jonathan Safran...

A Celebration of Jamaican Food Culture in 100 RecipesDelve into West Winds — the most-talked-about cookbook of 2022 and a joyous celebration of Jamaican food culture.Read it, cook from it,...

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernityIn this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American,...

The hotly anticipated finale to the epic, fierce and magnetically addictive Caribbean-inspired Witches Steeped in Gold.Bow down witches . . .Enemy witches Iraya and Jazmyne have each achieved their darkest...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022In the acclaimed poet's first collection since 2013, Calypsonian renderings of the sonnet bubble with febrile lyricism, musicality, and breathtaking emotional depthWith Sonnets...

Motherland is a cookbook celebrating Jamaican food from its roots to the dishes that have made it the unique cuisine it is today.Motherland is a cookbook that charts the history...

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...

A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nicholas, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of...

Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it. Everything Cassandra Rampersad knows about her family history has been overheard: whispered behind a...

The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen. In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine...

A phenomenal modern classic, new to the Vintage Classics list, for readers both long-standing and new. Through dialogue and flashback we learn of the colonialism and racism, love and envy,...

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...

The second novel in Marlon James's revolutionary DARK STAR TRILOGY In this mighty follow-up to his number one bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Booker-winner Marlon James once again draws on...

Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Sam Selvon is now widely considered to...