NEW TITLES

Below are the most recent titles from Peepal Tree, published since October 2011. For more information use the Subscription form to sign up for detailed title and author information and extracts from books.

 


Coral Identities: Essays on Indo-Caribbean Literature

Letizia Gramaglia
Coral Identities: Essays on Indo-Caribbean Literature

ISBN: 9781845231606, Price: £16.99

Assembled to meet the growing interest in Indo-Caribbean literature, this wide-ranging collection brings together a series of fresh and incisive critical articles outlining current research on the topic.


The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket

Stewart Brown
The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket

ISBN: 9781845230548, Price: £21.99

This anthology celebrates the individuals who forged an art out of the game and transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism and forever changed the nature of the game.

 


Near Open Water

Keith Jardim
Near Open Water

ISBN: 9781845231880, Price: £8.99

Authentic and edgy, these stories offer a beautiful and unsettling insight into the contradictions of the contemporary Caribbean.

 


Painting Away Regrets

Opal Palmer Adisa
Painting Away Regrets

ISBN: 9781845231521, Price: £12.99

Painting Away Regrets is a story about love, betrayal, madness and reconciliation, within the framework of Yoruba belief system.

 


Wheels

Kwame Dawes
Wheels

ISBN: 9781845231422, Price: £10.99

In Wheels, Kwame Dawes brings the lyric poem face to face with the external world in the first part of this century – its politics, its social upheavals and ideological complexity.

 


A Flying Fish Whispered

Elma Napier
A Flying Fish Whispered

ISBN: 9781845231026, Price: £9.99

First published in 1938, Elma Napier's writing is a revelation, -- intensely alive, sensuous in its rich portrayal of the islands fauna and flora, and in the creation of characters who truly breathe. With an introduction by Evelyn o'Callaghan.


The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman

Loretta Collins Klobah
The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman

ISBN: 9781845231842, Price: £8.99

Against a soundtrack of world music, from salsa to reggae to jazz, and in a vibrant blend of English, Spanish and Patois, this collection celebrates the complex histories, languages and cultural practices of the Caribbean and its diaspora.