Caribbean

  90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the...

'A hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer' — Bernardine Evaristo In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world, QUEENIE is about identity,...

Willy Chandra whom we first met in 'Half a Life' is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s,...

‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him to her thumping chest. Tears sliding from her...

 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...

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 WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. An unforgettable story of four incredible...

“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, smart, conversation-starting love story which explores questions of identity and the legacy of the slave-trade in 21st-century Britain When Layla and Andy first meet, they can't believe they...

Can a queen without a country still rule people’s hearts? Hayti 1811 As Queen of Hayti, Marie-Louise Christophe rules alongside her husband, the King, in a court of opulence and...

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,...

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. AUGUST 2020 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE...

A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity; Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an...

Love is a piece of cake, right? For the first time in forever, lifelong rivals Cherisse and Keiran are back in Trinidad at the same time. And while Keiran may...

The first in a duology, an epic, fierce and magnetically addictive Caribbean-inspired YA fantasy from an incredible new talent. Trust no witch… Iraya Adair has spent her life in a...

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...

Shortlisted for the Fiction category in the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees, Moshe Fisher's provenance is a thing of myth and...

This rich, raw and urgent debut novel is a domestic noir of sex and survival set in Trinidad’s capital. Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, mixed-race boutique...

Cairo, 1912. Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEMrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel.Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from an eternity of her...

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...

An emotional, tender and funny novel from award-winning author Alecia McKenzie that asks, what does family mean to you?Seeking solitude after a personal tragedy upends his world, artist Chris travels...

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler We are a people who do not forget. Survivors...

Translated by Richard PhilcoxBabakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his...

From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave...

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...

Black Britain: Writing Back Theonly novelfrom the revolutionary intellectual C.L.R. James, andthe first novel by a Black West Indian to be published in the UK It is the 1920s in...

A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew...

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 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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world, QUEENIE is about identity,...

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...

The second poignant, powerful and passionate novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of The Poet X. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits...

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...

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...

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...

'Nobody's ever really given us such a revealing look at New York's Dominican population before . . . Cruz, in this determinedly real yet often magical novel, offers canny insights...

'A hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer' — Bernardine Evaristo In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale...

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...

'An exhilarating experience ... Genius.' — Jamaica KincaidI dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...Guyana. An ancient landscape of rainforests and swamplands, haunted...

From award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never...

A finalist for the New York Public Library Fiction AwardA Grand Prix Littéraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers Selection Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole...

Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. When Cara left the Dominican Republic for America, she thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest...

Unmissable, uplifting debut fiction — a richly mythic love story set in the lush landscape of modern Trinidad Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city to seek...

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...

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...