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- Location(s): Essex, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s/1980s
Hannah Lowe’s father Chick, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family; except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of East London to win...
A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1975
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes...
- Location(s): Oxford, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Future, Fiction
- Era(s): Future
Living forever can be lethal… Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine...
What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
- Location(s): Kingston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1957
In the village of Gibbeah where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1830s
Jerome is a slave. He must wake up every morning knowing that he belongs to plantation owner Alfred Campbell. But things are changing with talk of abolition. He has fallen in love with Anita, Alfred’s daughter, and he must...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post-WW2
A story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal from the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune out...
- Location(s): Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Suriname
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives – at least, that’s how it seems. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Good Scammer tells the story of Clive ‘Bangaz’ Thompson, an orphan born in west Jamaica raised with no love, education, or prospects of ever getting a decent job. He designs an ingenious business model that brings millions of dollars...
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