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Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press)
Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press) Kwame Dawes 9781845231057 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, this story of one man’s ...
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry)
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry) Kwame Dawes 9780948833854 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press As 24-hour television, belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers, c...
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim Marcia Douglas 9781845233327 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A much-awaited novel from an award-winning writer a reggae track...
A Portable Paradise
A Portable Paradise Roger Robinson 9781845234331 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racism; observ...
Death Register
Death Register Dwight Thompson 9781845234072 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In this searingly honest debut novel, Jamaican author Dwight Thompson fearlessly and candidly explores themes o...
A New Beginning
A New Beginning Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella 9781845234249 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016 it was, remarkably, doing something quite new...
Prophets
Prophets Kwame Dawes 9781845234041 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness that portrays the ...
Doe Songs
Doe Songs Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné 9781845234188 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Tell No-One About This
Tell No-One About This Jacob Ross 9781845233525 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press This substantial collection brings together short stories written over a span of forty years, including thos...
Curfew Chronicles: A Fiction
Curfew Chronicles: A Fiction Jennifer Rahim 9781845233624 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, b...
Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Come Let Us Sing Anyway Leone Ross 9781845233341 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press From headless schoolgirls, to talking food and threesomes, pretty much anything can happen in these witty, ...
Fossil 2016 (Inscribe Chapbook Series)
Fossil 2016 (Inscribe Chapbook Series) Kadija Sesay 9781845232986 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
The Bone Readers
The Bone Readers Jacob Ross 9781845233358 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak… When Michael (Digger) Digson is recruited into DS Chilman’s new plain ...
Kingston Buttercup
Kingston Buttercup Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845233303 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Jamaican poet, Ann Margaret Lim, follows her crit...
Water with Berries
Water with Berries George Lamming 9781845231675 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Teeton lives multiple lives in England. One is with a bohemian group of Caribbean artist exiles; another is ...
The Repenters
The Repenters Kevin Jared Hosein 9781845233310 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature When the infant Jordan Sant is taken to the St Aster...
Speak from Here to There
Speak from Here to There Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella 9781845233198 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press For six months during 2015, two poets known for their capacity to create lyric responses...
The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews
The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews Jacqueline Bishop 9781845233150 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Beginning with the promptings of the transgressively erotic ...
Wife
Wife Tiphanie Yanique 9781845232948 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press The title of Wife is both ironic and deeply serious. There are wittily sharp poems on the gender inequalities and potenti...
Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (Inscribe)
Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (Inscribe) Jacob Ross and Kadija Sesay 9781845232887 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press From well-known and award-winning authors—including B...
Ground Level
Ground Level Jennifer Rahim 9781845232054 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings On
Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings On Dorothea Smartt 9781845232870 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Sounding Ground
Sounding Ground Vladimir Lucien 9781845232399 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Winner of: 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts; hi...
Difficult Fruit
Difficult Fruit Lauren K. Alleyne 9781845232276 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press "Readers will enjoy this body of work because of its unconventional approach and Alleyne’s personal touch is ...
Night Vision
Night Vision Kendel Hippolyte 9781845232351 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press With his dexterity as a writer, Kendel Hippolyte speaks through and beyond tradition. He writes in sonnet, triole...
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies Kei Miller 9781845232283 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press When Kei Miller describes these as essays and prophecies, he shares with the reader...
The Festival of Wild Orchid
The Festival of Wild Orchid Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845232016 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Alert to all the contradictions of contemporary Jamaica, these lyric and delicate poems find fresh...
Irki
Irki Kadija Sesay 9781845232085 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A collection that brings to bear the memory of a pan-African homeland upon the reality of a British upbringing, this book unl...
The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays
The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays Rupert Roopnaraine 9781845231613 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In these essays, Rupert Roopnarainewho has been called a Caribbean Hazlittdisplays his...
Fugue and Other Writings
Fugue and Other Writings Neville Dawes 9781845231095 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Combining poetry, short stories, autobiographical essays, and critical writing, this comprehensive coll...
Ghosts
Ghosts Curdella Forbes 9781845232009 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press * The futuristic Caribbean island of Jacaranda is a place under the constant pressures of crime, globalization, advanci...
Fault Lines
Fault Lines Kendel Hippolyte 9781845231941 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press With verbal urgency and visionary imagination, this collection features the work of one of the Caribbean’s most im...
Children of Sisyphus, the PB
Children of Sisyphus, the PB Orlando Patterson 9781845230944 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A bleak portrayal of life on the Dungle—the rubbish heap where the very poorest squat—this beau...
The Twelve Foot Neon Woman
The Twelve Foot Neon Woman Loretta Collins Klobah 9781845231842 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Against a soundtrack of world musicfrom salsa to reggae and jazzand in a vibrant blend of Eng...
Painting Away Regrets
Painting Away Regrets Opal Palmer Adisa 9781845231521 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Set primarily in the Bay Area of California, this compelling tale of human intent and divine manipulat...
Wheels
Wheels Kwame Dawes 9781845231422 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Using the power of language to explore and discover patterns of meaning, this collection brings the lyric poem face to face ...
The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems
The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems Shara McCallum 9781845231866 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Riot
Riot Andrew Salkey 9781845231811 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Gerald Manston and his friends Shifty and Fu lead pretty uneventful lives until the arrival of the upheaval.” When the opp...
Drought
Drought Andrew Salkey 9781845231835 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press It is the dry season and the small village of Nain, Jamaica, is suffering. Its people, livestock, and crops have all bee...
Hurricane
Hurricane Andrew Salkey 9781845231804 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press “…[Hurricane was] the book that made me want to write. He [Salkey] was the most wonderful writer for children.”—Zadi...
Earthquake
Earthquake Andrew Salkey 9781845231828 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Ricky Thomas, his brother Doug, and his sister Polly spend their summer holidays in the coffee walk surrounding their...
While Gods Are Falling (Caribbean Modern Classics)
While Gods Are Falling (Caribbean Modern Classics) Earl Lovelace 9781845231484 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Exposing the political and cultural failure to address the challenges of post...
Far District: Poems
Far District: Poems Ishion Hutchinson 9781845231576 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Creating an impressionistic portrait of the poet’s boyhood in rural Jamaica, these narrative poems explor...
Back Of Mount Peace
Back Of Mount Peace Kwame Dawes 9781845231248 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Characterized by a beautifully realized reciprocity between outer landscape and the characters’ inner worlds, t...
Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems
Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems Chris Abani 9781845231569 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of...
Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (Inscribe)
Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (Inscribe) Kwame Dawes 9781845231293 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Inspired by the word red,” this collection of poems written by black British wri...
Loneliness of Angels
Loneliness of Angels Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781845231224 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global context as a place of ethnic and cultura...
The Stone Gatherer
The Stone Gatherer Esther Phillips 9781845230852 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Candid, honest, and empathetic, this disarming volume of poetry revels in poems that undress the foibles of ...
Escape to an Autumn Pavement
Escape to an Autumn Pavement Andrew Salkey 9781845230982 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A brave and pioneering treatment of sexual identity in Caribbean literature, this novel, first publ...
Snapshots from Istanbul
Snapshots from Istanbul Jacqueline Bishop 9781845231149 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Sensual, honest, often humorous, and as intimate as a confession, the poems in this volume illuminate...
The Last Enchantment
The Last Enchantment Neville Dawes 9781845231170 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Newly available after 40 years, this partly autobiographical love affair with the Jamaican language and lan...
Approaching Sabbaths: Poems
Approaching Sabbaths: Poems Jennifer Rahim 9781845230708 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Drawing on a powerful sense of Trinidadian history and moving seamlessly between matters of family a...
Ship Shape
Ship Shape Dorothea Smartt 9781845230586 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Focusing on a sense of dutyto record family history, to envision wholeness out of fragments, and to dissolve the di...
I Name Me Name
I Name Me Name Opal Palmer Adisa 9781845230449 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Each piece in this dynamic poetic biography uses the voices of iconic figures past and present in a bold explo...
A Permanent Freedom
A Permanent Freedom Curdella Forbes 9781845230616 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Crossing the space between novel & short fiction, ’A Permanent Freedom’ weaves nine individual stories abo...
Writers Who Paint Painters Who Write: 3 Jamaican Artists
Writers Who Paint Painters Who Write: 3 Jamaican Artists Jacqueline Bishop 9781845230647 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Exceptionally expressive paintings from three contemporary Carib...
Songster and Other Stories
Songster and Other Stories Jennifer Rahim 9781845230487 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Until Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican Men
Until Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican Men Opal Palmer Adisa 9781845230425 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Sensitive and imaginative, this collection of short stories explores th...
The River’s Song: A Novel
The River’s Song: A Novel Jacqueline Bishop 9781845230388 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press This engaging coming-of-age novel looks back over the idyllic Jamaican girlhood and the both alien...
Fauna
Fauna Jacqueline Bishop 9781845230326 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A satisfying and original work, this collection of poems offers moving personal insights as it reconstructs a Jamaican ...
A Far Cry From Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative
A Far Cry From Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative Kwame Dawes 9781845230258 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Directly addressing the relationship with his father, a Marxist Caribbean na...
Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells
Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells Marcia Douglas 9781845230166 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her...
The Scorpion’s Claw
The Scorpion’s Claw Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781900715911 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
The Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves
The Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves Rupert Roopnaraine 9781900715867 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In this critical investigation of one of the Caribbean’s most distinguish...
Caribbean Passion
Caribbean Passion Opal Palmer Adisa 9781900715928 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press This feisty, sensuous, and thought-provoking collection of poetry from Opal Palmer Adisa includes powerful ...
Connecting Medium
Connecting Medium Dorothea Smartt 9781900715508 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press The personal becomes the public, the public the personal in poems which range over a deeply personalized sens...
Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Poetry Book Society Recommendation)
Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) Marcia Douglas 9781900715287 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Marcia Douglas, who was born in England and grew up in J...
Shook Foil
Shook Foil Kwame Dawes 9781900715140 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press When the guitars tickle a bedrock of drum and bass, when the girl a shock out and a steady hand curve round her sweat-sm...
Birthright
Birthright Kendel Hippolyte 9780948833939 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry described Kendel Hippolyte as ’perhaps the outstanding Caribbean poet of his...
Requiem
Requiem Kwame Dawes 9781900715072 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In these ’shrines of remembrance’ for the millions of the victims of transatlantic slavery, Kwame Dawes constructs a sequen...
Jacko Jacobus
Jacko Jacobus Kwame Dawes 9781900715065 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a people to shake the...
Suite for Supriya
Suite for Supriya Rupert Roopnaraine 9780948833274 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Rich in literary reference and variety of setting, these love poems celebrate the word as well as the fles...
Web of October
Web of October Rupert Roopnaraine 9780948833182 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press This original and meditative text combines an intensive critical reading of ’You Are involved’, by the late G...
Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry
Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry Kadija Sesay 9781845234263 Poetry INSCRIBE Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Filigree typically refers to the finer elements of craftwork, the parts that are subtle; o...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree James H. Cone 9781626980051 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the Africa...
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree Adrienne C. Wilson 9781606047927 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC Are you my family tree? In Isaac and the Bah Family Tree, new author Adrienne ...
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth Damian Chandler 9781478918370 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group In this real-life Christmas fable, when a Dad decides to let h...
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 Abiodun Oyewole 9781940939032 Poetry 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press Branches of the Tree of Life is the first comprehensive volu...
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027 Flame Tree Studio 9781806940677 Nonfiction Flame Tree Calendars Flame Tree Studio Tamara Natalie Madden Art Calendar celebrates the regal, glistening portraits...
Nell Plants a Tree
Nell Plants a Tree Anne Wynter 9780062865779 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins This gorgeous picture book shows how one little girl’s careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living ce...
Circles of Hope
Circles of Hope Karen Lynn Williams 9780802853967 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Everyone brought a gift for baby Lucia. Facile sat high up in his mango tr...
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Lise Funderburg 9781496212092 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, ...
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life Sheree Renée Thomas 9781619761117 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Sleeping under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral knowledge with a deep respect for ...
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy)
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy) Isis Asare 9781835622643 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing Exploring new Black literature, following the success of Black Sci-Fi ...
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846631 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the bestselling author duo Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry comes Far from the T...
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof Ivy Claire Pochoda 9781949520071 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios Created by Kobe Bryant From the mind of basketball legend, Academy Award–winning, and New York Time...
The Pain Tree
The Pain Tree Olive Senior 9781770864344 Fiction Cormorant Books Cormorant Books From the author of Dancing Lessons, Finalist for the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and Finalist for the 2012 Commonw...
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781500924850 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Two strong Southern women, one a slave and the...
The Roving Tree
The Roving Tree Elsie Augustave 9781617751653 Fiction Open Lens Akashic Books “…gorgeous new novel about a Haitian adoptee finding her way in many different corners of the world.”—Edwidge Dantic...
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780393325805 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Not since Breaking Ice has an a...
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree Barbara Brandon 9781412016391 Fiction Trafford Publishing Author Solutions Homer, The H-Shaped Tree is a delightful story for all children. Small children who have...
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories Tia Ross 9781839644801 Fiction Flame Tree Press Flame Tree Publishing Foreword by Temi Oh, Introduction by Dr. Sandra M. Grayson, Associate Editor Tia Ross, contributors to ...
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel Donna Hill and Francis Ray 9780312321956 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Tis the season to be merry and the Morrison family are abou...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780312202910 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn’t be more different. C...
Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa
Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa Cheryl S. Ntumy 9781835623022 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing A stunning collection in a stunning book, Cheryl S. Ntumy’s fantasy and near-...
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy, and Stephen Embleton 9781835626405 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing A powerful dark science fiction collection in a stunn...
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3)
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3) Bernard Mensah 9781338843354 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Kwame needs to help save the world’s source of magic, in the third...
The Talking Baobab Tree
The Talking Baobab Tree Nelda LaTeef 9789988860387 Fiction Sub-Saharan Publishers Sub-Saharan Publishers The Talking Baobab Tree is derived from a story the author heard while visiting a Wolof village...
Under the Freedom Tree
Under the Freedom Tree Susan VanHecke 9781580895514 Poetry Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historian...
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America)
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America) Albert Murray 9781598535617 Fiction Library ...