When retired Jamaican campaigner and lobbyist Mary Odell dies suddenly, her niece, Monique – a London-based journalist – suspects foul play. Her misgivings lead her deep into the murky waters of Jamaica’s turbulent past, opening up a Pandora’s box...

Songs about children playing in the schoolyard, sisters braiding each other’s hair at the beach, and parents dancing late into the night mesh together thanks to the music. A wide array of styles–nursery rhymes from Gabon, lullabies from Cape...

This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women – a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt...

The annual carnival on the Jarrett Estate in Jamaica was once a source of celebration. But when the heir to the estate was found dead a year ago, it became a night his mother would never forget. Determined to...

1772: Barrister’s clerk, Isaiah Ollenu, an ambitious Black married father, is sent to Jamaica against his wishes with insurance agent Ruben Ashby, a pious bachelor. Finding missing people is the goal, but confronted by prejudice, untoward characters and vengeful...

Welsh Canadian globetrotting sleuth, and professor of criminal psychology, Cait Morgan, is supposed to be “celebrating” her fiftieth birthday in Jamaica with her ex-cop husband Bud Anderson. But when the body of the luxury estate’s owner is discovered locked...

Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain’s wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962. Jamaica is now a country in despair....

So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston in 1988, answering the casting call for an openly queer play, they are already taking a big risk. But that is nothing compared to what rains down...

Kilburn, 1873. The ‘Tichborne Trial’ has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be – or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is...

Easter, 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency, the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing, who had not spoken to her daughter for fifteen years, the death of Lana is the cruellest...