Brenton Brown is 16 years old. A mixed race youth, Brenton has lived in a children's home all his life. Being reunited with his mother is the best thing that has happened to Brenton. But a strange series of events soon push him to the edge.
A beautiful evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, and equivocal status as an overlooked outpost of the dwindling British Empire, Island Songs is an epic of love, diaspora, and sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never reve...
I joined her at the breakfast table and as I was spreading marmalade on my toast, she was eating Ready Brek with cinnamon and nutmeg in it. Davinia was always particular like that. ‘Davinia, what goes on in a poetry jam?’ ‘You don’t know?’ ‘If I did know I wouldn’t be asking, would I!’ ‘No need t...
She was carefully applying her eye make-up and she spotted Malakai staring at her. She smiled. Finished with her eyes, Breanna applied a touch of lavender oil onto her hands and arms. She sniffed at it and grinned again as she caught Malakai’s gaze in the mirror. ‘What sweet you?’ she asked. &nbs...