Books and Writers articles
Talking to writer Murielle Crane Author Murielle Crane was born in Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. She earned a degree in psychology from Thames Valley University in England, and currently lives in Montreal, Canada. Unveil: An Appeal to Consciousness, is about how inequities in society today and the devastating effect of our collective actions […]
Unveil: An Appeal to Consciousness by Murielle Crane Unveil: An Appeal to Consciousness achieves nothing less than a complete scholarly unmasking of the causal factors which precipitated, as well as the devastating effects which flow from, our ongoing collective national historical assault upon the dignity and well being of People of Color. The overall goal […]
In the Land of the Shak Shak Tree, by Jade Small Zizwe is visiting his family in Barbados with his mother for the very first time and his exciting journey as he leaves “rainy England for blue skies and sea” and his first impressions of the beautiful land of the shak shak tree are captured […]
Jean Otalor talks to Tracey Reynolds about her new book. Caribbean Mothers – Identity and experience in the UK, available from all good bookshops. It’s a very taboo subject, and had been swept under the carpet, but the black babymother issue has re-surfaced, in the form of a book. At a time when British women […]
Malorie Blackman 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 of the nation’s favourite books in the […]