Product Description: This book brings back to life in rich detail the Afro-Guyanese village community of the author's childhood, where there were old people who had been slaves as children and Africa was not forgotten. It was a time when children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared, and perhaps for this reason, the men and women who pass through these stories have a mystery and singularity that are as unforgettable for the reader as they were for the child...read more

Product Description: This first ever collection of Beryl Gilroy's writings is both controversial and demanding. Gilroy addresses a wide range of subjects that fall within three broad areas-her own works of fiction and autobiography, lifelong learning, and black old age...read more

Product Description: A complex exploration of the cultural conflicts of race and gender, this novel focuses on the journey of a Guyanese woman from her British colonial country to the deeply racist London of the 1950s. Without an extended family support system or an understanding of her new home, she finds comfort in her work with troubled children of fellow black settlers...read more

Product Description: Set in multiracial London, this new novel from Peepal Tree's most popular writer is a comedy about identity, community, growing old (and people and dogs). Beneath the laughter lurks a bittersweet sense of human fragility and impermanence.

Product Description: In this richly comic novel of Black British life, the heroine has resigned herself to growing old and single in her bible-soaked family. But when she is introduced to a young man from Guyana, she decides to marry him and return to the Caribbean...read more

Product Description: Book by Gilroy, Beryl

Product Description: Conveys the ways in which three generations of a West Indian family have been affected by life in Britain. For the grandparents, confined to the tyranny of an old people's home, a collection of sepia photographs and memories are a vital link to the Caribbean and a rosy past.

Product Description: Set in Guyana, this book tells the story of Mama King. Trapped by age and infirmity, Mama becomes too much for her family who send her away to a dreary and claustrophobic rest home - but Mama King does not give in. This book won a GLC Black Literature Competition before publication...read more