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John Hearne was one of the first wave of West Indian writers to achieve international recognition in the 1950s and the first Jamaican author published by Faber and Faber. He was a contemporary of V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Roger Mais, Andrew Salkey and Samuel Selvon. Though Hearnes novels are viewed as foundational Caribbean literature, they did not have the same traction as those of his contemporaries and his work is largely out of print. This collection brings together Hearnes short stories in a single volume for the first time and makes his writing available to a new generation of readers.

Hearne felt his duty as a writer was to examine fundamental human truths rather than social politics or a nationalistic agenda, and his short stories are exemplars of this intention. From his first published piece, the fable The Mongoose Who Came to the City, to his unpublished last story Reckonings, this collection of critically acclaimed short stories is essential reading for any serious student of Caribbean literature or any reader seeking a broader understanding of the culture of the region in the early days of independence.
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Ranging over the Jamaican and Caribbean past and the encroachments of a turbulent world, Velma Pollard's poems return always to the quiet touchstones of love and friendship. As the middle years hurry past, her poems explore what is important, what might survive.
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'DEVASTATING' Marlon James, 'A MODERN CLASSIC' Andrew Sean Greer, 'INCREDIBLE' Lemn Sissay, 'BRILLIANT' Salman Rushdie, 'MAGNIFICIENT' Aminatta Forna, 'EPIC' Mary Morris, 'WONDERFUL' Laila Lalami, 'UNFORGETTABLE' The Times, 'REMARKABLE' New York Times ETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms. But how could she have predicted her own personal war, still to come, as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers? The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, and what it means to be a woman at war.
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Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A Fulbright Scholar and professor in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation programme at Queens College, she is the author of The Shadow King and Beneath the Lion's Gaze, named one of the Guardian's Ten Best Contemporary African Books. Her work can be found in the New Yorker, Granta, and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City. @MaazaMengiste | maazamengiste.com
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In Jubilation!, over fifty contemporary Jamaican poets reflect in complex, outspoken, meditative, humorous and outrageous ways on Jamaican independence from Britain and the years that followed.

The anthology includes work from the best-known poets of the last fifty years, as well as some of the new and exciting voices in Jamaican poetry today. The authors featured include the work of, among others, Opal Palmer Adisa, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Kwame Dawes, Ann-Margaret Lim, Rachel Manley, Shara McCallum, Mervyn Morris, Velma Pollard and Ralph Thompson.

Kwame Dawes is the author of over thirty books, and is widely recognised as one of the Caribbean's leading writers. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Musgrave Silver Medal, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award 2012 and, most recently, a Guggenheim Fellowship. His latest poetry book is Wheels (2011), and he recently edited Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (2010) and A Bloom of Stones: A Trilingual Anthology of Haitian Poems After the Earthquake (2012), all published by Peepal Tree Press.

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