A complex exploration of the cultural conflicts of race and gender, this novel focuses on the jou...

This wide-ranging collection assembles recent essays on Mittelholzer as a pioneering Caribbean mo...

City of Bones

The House in Bacolet

After Poems, Psalms

Ground Provisions

Other Wild

Concrete Dreams tells the gripping story of Lucas Bostock, a Jamaican immigrant who arrives in 19...

Roger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of rac...

A mix of fictive narrative, letters and poetry, with episodes of great warmth, exuberant humour, ...

'The all-seeing eye and the all-listening ear, roving all over the island, stopping here and ther...

Since its beginnings 33 years ago, Peepal Tree has published around 45 collections of Caribbean s...

Based on remarkably detailed original research, this study examines 19th-century, Indian indentur...

Originally published: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1993.

This postmodern historical novel addresses power, sex, and the role of the imagination in constru...

It is the dry season and the small village of Nain, Jamaica, is suffering. Its people, livestock,...

It is the late 1980s in southern Sri Lanka and Bradley Sirisena's father is abducted and tortured...

Inspired in part by a group of paintings from Caribbean masters Greaves, Akyem, and Ishi, this co...

From early in her life, Kamla is surprised by a contrary inner voice which frequently gainsays th...

This book, based on a conference organized by Friends of Mr Biswas, explores the writing careers ...

In this collection, an Anglo-Indian poet offers a fresh approach to conveying the disorienting po...

A unique combination of passion and compassion, sensitivity and sensuality, this collection of po...

Focusing on the immigration of West Indians to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, these seven one-ac...

In this updated collection of interviews with 22 of the most important writers of the English-spe...

When a young Guyanese woman sets out to write a historical novel based on the Demerara Slave Rebe...

A sweeping saga of migration and the challenges it presents one family, this is a story about sis...

In using an epigraph from the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart, for years incarcerated in the ...

In the second volume of Vincent Roth's Guyana memoirs, Vincent is a mature adult who is very sure...

Coming Home and Other Stories

From the vantage point of later middle life, Ian McDonald's collection looks into the heart of ti...

Exceptionally expressive paintings from three contemporary Caribbean artists--each a prominent li...

Addressing a wide range of themes--from the oppression and restitution in 19th-century and contem...

What brings Charlo Pardie--an almost elderly peasant farmer--to leave his wife after a life toget...

Major essays on the work of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Kwame Dawes, and oth...

Set primarily in the Bay Area of California, this compelling tale of human intent and divine mani...

Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventi...

The Murders of Boysie Singh, first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells ...

Eve has to watch her husband bring his paler mistress to the party she has so carefully prepared;...

Combining factual biography with the imaginative structure of the novel, Anthony Joseph gets to t...

This engaging coming-of-age novel looks back over the idyllic Jamaican girlhood and the both alie...

In a collection that encompasses both Siri and the trickster god Anansi, in his travels from West...

Set in multiracial London, this new novel from Peepal Tree's most popular writer is a comedy abou...

Each piece in this dynamic poetic biography uses the voices of iconic figures past and present in...

An iconic novel from a rebellious and politically active author, this story follows Jack, a sculp...

Combining poetry, short stories, autobiographical essays, and critical writing, this comprehensiv...

Having developed a significant following among her fellow Jamaicans and in the wider Caribbean wo...

Candid and sensitive, this collection journeys between Africa, Europe, and the Americas as the po...

The personal and political experiences and passions of a third-world immigrant are powerfully exp...