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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswasis V. S. Naipaul's best-loved novel; one of BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly...

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...

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 National Book Award 1990The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days loitering around...

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...

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...