Corentyne Thunder Tim Kendall

Corentyne Thunder Tim KendallRamgolall, an old Indian cow minder, has punished himself to save money and has built a sizeable herd. His first daughter is the long established mistress of a well to do white planter. Their son, his grandson, Geoffry, light skinned and ambitious, seems destined for success. But when Geoffry becomes involved with Kattree, his daughter by a second marriage, Ramgolalls world begins to fall apart. This classic work of West Indian fiction, first

and essays on the work of poets who have travelled frame this collection

Work from all quarters

and the discovery of intimate correspondence with another woman

Arseny Tarkovsky

Forced to fight for survival

There are moving and sometimes comic chapters of a pre-war boyhood in colonial Jamaica in a far from prosperous white and Catholic Jamaican family

Although much criticised for this role

and is regarded by many critics as his best

She became the first woman to sit in any West Indian parliament

James Kirkup La Serment des barbares by Boualem Sansal

a hapless stockbroker is pursued by a woman living in an abandoned school bus

sometimes dark