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A young man arrived in Liverpool from Nigeria around 1915, expecting to find the streets paved with gold. The Dingle area of Toxteth he settled in was instead depressed, poor, racist, and to his mind, ungodly. In 1931, he founded the African Churches Mission, in which he not only conducted services but also fed and clothed the poor of the community, and housed seamen and others denied accommodation due to the colour of their skin. He also prov...

In Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean, Marsha Pearce curates a collection of paintings and short stories to explore sensations of place and identity. The anthology casts tropical place in a different light, going beyond what island sunlight renders visible - beyond what we already know, or think we know - to a space in which the imagination offers illumination. The book makes an argument for seeing the Caribbean in the dark. Expan...

As a young student in Pakistan, he took his first steps into the world of journalism at the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore. He later joined the Times of Karachi before leaving for England in 1960. It was in London that he studied computerised photo-composition at the London College of Communication, and also completed courses in subediting at the Polytechnic of Central London and one run by the National Council for the Training of Journa...

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In Volume One of his memoirs, Dr Yesu Persaud wrote movingly about his family and their struggles both during and after the abolition of the indentureship system that had first brought them to what was then British Guiana. In Volume Two, he continues the story of his life from the mid-1970s, and provides a fascinating view of his business and professional life, as well as his philanthropy. Entwined with this story is a more personal account wh...

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In this expansive autobiography, Dr Furlonge provides a detailed expose as the ''victim of a history of prejudicial treatment''. This treatment was directed by the Government of the day and guided by the Public Service Commission (PSC) - an institution created by the Constitution of a post-colonial Commonwealth Republic. In 2004, he was compelled to resort to the High Court of Justice, whose Judgement stated that, '' compliance with PSC Regula...

Since the poem was first published in 1994, it has been subject to a significant level of critical debate and discussion which continues to the present day. The aim of this book is to bring together a selection of the many articles that have engaged with the poem, and to show how they explore its relationship to the events depicted in the painting. Edited with an Introduction by Lynne Macedo, The Hook of Desire contains eleven articles - three...

This tribute to Joe Solomon (1930-), now the oldest West Indies Test cricketer, celebrates the career ''and its context'' of this reliable lower middle order batsman on his 92nd birthday. Solomon is from Port Mourant, an exceptional sugar plantation on the Corentyne Coast in Guyana (formerly British Guiana), birthplace of the Guyanese leader Cheddi Jagan (1918-97), as well as several other Test cricketers: John Trim, Rohan Kanhai, Basil Butche...

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This represents the first of three novels on history''s forgotten or too little remembered people, including in particular the indigenous people of Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, Haiti and Mexico. It is a history of peoples living lives in communities for thousands of years until invaders come, a history that is long overdue, a history from the perspective of the invaded and the enslaved, a history that looks very different from the norm, casting...

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In this CANDID AND HEARTBREAKING MEMOIR, Patricia Grant-Morby reflects upon her troubled life. It is a life filled with sorrow, misery and pain - both physical and psychological. She has faced the many challenges with courage and determination, but not always with successful conclusions. The daughter of Jamaican parents, she was born in England but RAISED IN JAMAICA until her teenage years, after which she returned to England. Her father spent...

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A tale so bizarre which occurs infrequently as a medical anomaly, Marcia''s cryptic pregnancy produces a son for her apparently infertile husband, Marcus. They are delighted but Maria, the matriarch of the husband''s family, has doubts and struggles to balance her religious beliefs with her tragic past. She harbours secrets that disrupt her relationship with her family, especially with her son''s wife. Marcus is consumed by his mother''s treat...

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