Books and Writers articles
The Flour Convoy, a novel by Chaitram Singh. Set in Guyana in the early 1980s, The Flour Convoy follows the struggle of an army captain to free himself from the web of smuggling and ballot tampering with which he has become ensnared. The novel, which gets its name from an operation to smuggle contraband flour […]
Out of the Crowded Vagueness: A History of the Islands of St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla The Islands of St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla were settled as individual English possessions during the first half of the seventeenth century, but the close proximity of Nevis to St Kitts and the dependence of Anguilla on both of […]
The reader will be taken through a journey full of opportunities to think and reflect, to explore their own family backgrounds and historical experiences, to laugh and to weep, as well as to be reminded of some of the key issues surrounding race, community and international relations from the dark days of slavery to the […]
A series of thrilling dual language cultural short stories Caribbean Country Tales – is the first edition in a series of thrilling dual language cultural short stories that is inspirational and imaginative. Based in the Caribbean ‘Maya An Missa’ Mangoose’ is the first tale in the series which focuses on the everyday rural life of […]
Malorie Blackman’s thought-provoking trilogy Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman’s books include the brilliant ‘Noughts and Crosses’, ‘Cloud Busting’, ‘Hacker’ and ‘Thief!’. ‘Hacker’ and ‘Thief!’ won the ‘Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award’. She is the first author to have won it twice! In addition to being the only black writer to have got into the top 100 […]