David Dabydeen
Our Lady of Demarara
ISBN: 9781845230692, Price: £9.99
Publication Date: 28 July 2008

A complex, multilayered work that brings together two Irish priests, a journalist and frequenter of prostitutes, a Hindu shopkeeper and a Dickensian array of minor characters in an exploration of sexual squalor and spiritual redemption.

Curdella Forbes
A Permanent Freedom
ISBN: 9781845230616, Price: £8.99
Publication Date: 28 July 2008

Nine Caribbean stories about love, death, sex and migration, woven into a single compelling narrative that takes us on a journey through the heart of darkness and the quest for spiritual meaning.

Mahadai Das
A Leaf in His Ear: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781900715591, Price: £9.99
Publication Date: 25 August 2008

Draws from the poet’s first book, I want to be a Poetess of my People, My Finer Steel Will Grow, Bones, and a number of poems written in the period when Mahadai Das was living in the USA and many of her poems published in journals.

Kevyn Alan Arthur
Caribbean Treasure: A Trove of 18th Century Barbadian Poetry and Prose, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781845230104, Price: £16.99
Publication Date: 25 August 2008

Poems, essays, satires, and letters in the style of The Spectator provide an authentic portrait of many aspects of life in 18th-century Barbados in this anthology of writings drawn from newspapers, journals, and society newsletters of the time.

Neville Dawes
Fugue and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781845230265, Price: £7.99
Publication Date: 25 August 2008

Makes available the fine poems that Dawes wrote, mostly between 1950-1970, some of which appeared in a long-vanished, slim volume, Sepia, published in Ghana in the late 1950s, and contains poems and a biographical essay by the author's son, Kwame Dawes.