Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England

Locked in a psychiatric unit because her public singing brought her to the attention of the police, Gloria meets another British woman of Jamaican descent with whom she can share her past, giving them both hope for the future.

After seven years of English schooling, Bita Plant has difficulty returning to the primitive life-style of her native Jamaican village

Product Description: Two sisters could hardly be more different. At 27, Verona is bright and capable, but confused. Defiantly fat, she seeks refuge from a monotonous existence by imagining herself as the blond, blue-eyed heroine of popular romance. Desiree is more level-headed, but less than satisfied with her role as mother to two spirited daughters and unofficial uniform washer for her husband John and his football team...read more

Miss Gomez, a recent convert to the local church, has a feeling that a terrible sex crime will soon take place on Crow Street and warns the residents of that area, yet no one listens to her predictions until a young girl goes missing. Reprint.

In a self-published novel that has become a literary sensation in Britain, D., a streetwise Jamaican thug, recruits soldiers and enters a world of crack, fast cash, guns, and vicious gang violence. A first novel.

By the time she leaves Jamaica to join her family in London, Gwendolen feels alienated both from them and her culture, by the curses of poverty, illiteracy, and rape

Born in England, Dulcie is sad when she is unable to share the memories her friends David and Leslie have of Jamaica, their first home