2026 is the 20th anniversary of National Caribbean American Heritage Month, and we're so pleased to see four Peepal Tree Press titles appear on the official selected book list.

Take 30% off these selected titles at the checkout by using the coupon LIST30. Follow @InstituteofCaribbeanStudies and @CaribbeanAmericanMonth to see this year's celebrations and the full titles.

-Kipling Plass by Berkley Wendell Semple
-Sweet Li Jie by David Dabydeen
-Riddled by Tanya Shirley
-Before the Rain by Chirstine Craig

Books that explore Jamaican nationhood, independence, and celebration.

A stellar selection of fiction and poetry with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer themes. Discover classic Caribbean fiction with Andrew Salkey's Escape to An Autumn Pavement, stunning literary stories from Andre Bagoo (Trinidad) and Helen Klonaris (Bahamas), and dive into poems from Adam Lowe (a Poetry Book Society recommendation!), Brit-born Bajan Dorothea Smartt and Forward prize shortlistee Shivanee Ramlochan.

A selection of books about our history and heritage for Black History Month.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the docking of the SS Empire Windrush, Peepal Tree have put together a collection of migration stories.

Descriptions of food and eating in Anglophone Caribbean writing have so much to say about belonging and unbelonging, about identity, ethnicity, class, gender, migrancy, exile, food as a token and signifier of communicative exchange, food as a passageway to sensuality and sex, eating as an external sign of inner feelings, food as sacrament.

“We always knew that the dismantling of the colonial paradigm would release strange demons from the deep, and that these monsters might come trailing all sorts of subterranean material” Stuart Hall