RECENT TITLES

Below are some of the recent titles from Peepal Tree, published between February 2011 and October 2011. For newer releases, please visit the New Titles page.

 


Shara McCallum
The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781845231866 Price: £9.99

Bringing together selections from each of McCallum’s three books of poetry, along with new poems, this book touches on home, memory, identity, and longing with lyricism and grace.

 


Austin C. Clarke
The Survivors of the Crossing
ISBN: 9781845231668 Price: £9.99

An important addition to the comparatively small number of novels that focus on the experience of sugar estate workers, this is the first novel by the internationally renowned author Austin C. Clarke. Part of the Caribbean Modern Classics Series.


Nii Ayikwei Parkes
South of South
ISBN: 9781845231545 Price: £9.99

A rich anthology edited by Nii A. Parkes, re-imagining the constantly evolving dynamics of trans-national migration in the 21st century, exploring the complex fabric of the world that contemporary migrants negotiate.


Wilson Harris
The Eye of the Scarecrow
ISBN: 9781845231644 Price: £8.99

A radical revision of Wordsworth’s strategy of exploring imaginations, memory and event. by one of the Caribbean’s most original and visionary writers. Featuress an insightful introduction by Michael Mitchell. This is a Caribbean Modern Classic.


Merle Collins
Angel
ISBN: 9781845231859 Price: £12.99

In this new edition of Angel, Merle Collins seizes the opportunity to revise and expand the last part of her novel, not to arrive at different conclusions, but to look again at episodes that at the time proved too raw to be handled to her satisfaction.


Andrew Salkey
Drought
ISBN: 9781845231835 Price: £6.99

It is dry season. The small village of Nain is suffering. Its people, livestock and crops have all been affected and things are looking bleak. But Seth Stone and friends are determined to take matters into their own hands – with unexpected results.


Andrew Salkey
Earthquake
ISBN: 9781845231828 Price: £6.99

Siblings Ricky, Doug and Polly spend summer with their grandparents in the Jamaican countryside. While playing games of ‘Three on a Desert Island’ on a sunbaking day in July, the children feel the earth itself move beneath their feet...


Andrew Salkey
Hurricane
ISBN: 9781845231804 Price: £6.99

The first in Salkey’s quartet of illustrated children’s novels about Jamaica’s natural and manmade cataclysms, Hurricane won the 1967 German Children’s Book Prize.

 


Andrew Salkey
Riot
ISBN: 9871845231819 Price: £7.99

Gerald and his friends lead pretty uneventful lives until the arrival of the ‘upheaval’. Then comes the chance to fight for a better way of life for the poor folk of Kingston. A moving conclusion to Salkey's celebrated quartet of novels for children.


Alecia McKenzie
Sweetheart
ISBN: 9781845231774 Price: £8.99

Dulcinea Evers, a still young Jamaican artist who has reinvented herself in the USA as the flamboyant Cinea Verse, has died. But who was Dulci? Her friend, Cheryl, who is carrying her ashes back to New York has one story, but Dulci has many stories…


Una Marson
Una Marson: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781845231682 Price: £10.99

‘the earliest female poet of significance to emerge in West Indian literature’, Una Marson's role as a feminist, publisher, broadcaster, pan-Africanist and anti-racist is well documented, yet her poetry has received less consisdered critical attention.


Merle Collins
The Ladies are Upstairs
ISBN: 9781845231798 Price: £8.99

The short stories in this collection span a number of decades and genres, feature Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins’ most memorable characters.

 


Wayne Brown
The Scent of the Past and other stories
ISBN: 9781845231538 Price: £14.99

Brings together the very best of Wayne Brown’s prose fiction, vividly recreating Trinidadian society in a way that appeals to insiders and outsiders, intellectuals and the man or woman in the street.

 


Mark McWatt
The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 9781845231262 Price: £19.99

As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume of twenty original essays explores the significance of the short story form to Caribbean cultural production across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.


Earl Lovelace
While Gods Are Falling
ISBN: 9781845231484 Price: £10.99

Earl Lovelace’s first novel is a key work in understanding the trajectory of his writing career. His most politically explicit novel, it exposes the challenges of postcolonial Trinidad -- a world which appears, 45 years on, uncomfortably contemporary.


George Lamming
Of Age and Innocence
ISBN: 9781845231453 Price: £14.99

In this classic novel that is tense and tragic in its denouement and throughout deeply enquiring, Lamming has written one of the half dozen most important Caribbean novels of all time.

 


Neville Dawes
Fugue and Other Writings
ISBN: 9781845231095 Price: £9.99

Makes available the fine poems, short stories, autobiographical and critical essays written by Neville Dawes between the 1950s and the 1970s, with a biographical essay by the author's son, Kwame Dawes.