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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 8 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Gift of Music and Song: Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers by Jacqueline Bishop
    The Gift of Music and Song: Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers - by Jacqueline Bishop

    £19.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781845234768 | ISBN 10: 1845234766

    In this collection of interviews, Jacqueline Bishop is in conversation with eighteen female Jamaican writers, some of whom have emigrated from the island. This deeply intimate and personal encounter between the writer and artist, Bishop, and those sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning by Mike Rowbottom
    Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning - by Mike Rowbottom

    £6.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906413828 | ISBN 10: 1906413827

    Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet – and one of the most popular athletes of all time. His dramatic world record-breaking feats in the 100 and 200 metres have earned him Olympic and world gold medals in the last couple of years. But what has ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goodbye, Mango Sergeant: Memoir of a Jamaica Trench Town Boy by Keith Walker
    Goodbye, Mango Sergeant: Memoir of a Jamaica Trench Town Boy - by Keith Walker

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906190392 | ISBN 10: 1906190399

    In the mid-1960s, Keith Walker said goodbye to the land of his birth to join his mother in England. It was the time of love and 'flower power', but life in London for a young, black man was cold, bleak, unfriendly and presented a whole new set of cha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bob Marley: The Untold Story by Chris Salewicz
    Bob Marley: The Untold Story - by Chris Salewicz

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007255535 | ISBN 10: 0007255535

    What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock’n’roll? How is that he has not only remained the single most successful reggae artist ever, but has also become a shining beacon of radicalism and peace to generation ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island by Lorna Goodison
    From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island - by Lorna Goodison

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781843549963 | ISBN 10: 1843549964

    'Throughout her life my mother lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up.'  In lush, vivid prose textured with the cad ... more

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  • Cover image of book In-Dependence from Bondage by Lloyd D. McCarthy
    In-Dependence from Bondage - by Lloyd D. McCarthy

    £21.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781592214655 | ISBN 10: 1592214657

    This fascinating and lively book by Lloyd McCarthy compares and brings into light the relevant worldviews of the famous Afro-Caribbean poet and novelist, Claude McKay, and the world renowned socialist prime minister from the Caribbean island of Jamai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica by Donna P. Hope
    Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica - by Donna P. Hope

    £36.50   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9789766401689 | ISBN 10: 9766401683

    This work provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the da ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica by Werner Zips, translated by Shelley Frisch
    Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica - by Werner Zips, translated by Shelley Frisch

    £22.95   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781558762138 | ISBN 10: 1558762132

    An exploration of African-American freedom fighters in Jamaica, presenting a history of resistance instead of a history of domination. The context of marronage is carefully established: the plantation system as an economic and ideological machine fue ... more

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