KEY:

* copies in the library

# books that could be purchased by the library

~ Suggested in consultation

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of books.

CARIBBEAN 

Peter Abrahams, This Island Now, The View from Coyaba, The Coyaba Chronicles

Michael Anthony, The Year in San Fernando*, Green Days by the River, Cricket in the Road, The Games Were Coming, In the Heat of the Day*

Alvin Bennett, God the Stonebreaker

James Berry, Bluefoot Traveller, Windrush Songs*, When I Dance*

Jan Carew, Black Midas, Ghosts in Our Blood, Potaro Dreams

Michelle Cliffe, No Telephone to Heaven

Wilson Harris, The Guyana Quartet, Palace of the Peacock*, Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness*

Armando Hart, Aldabonazo

Richard Hart, The Abolition of Slavery

John Hearne, Voices Under the Window

Roy Heath, ‘Georgetown Trilogy’

Merle Hodges, Crick Crack, Monkey*

Cheddi Jagan, The West on Trial

Janet Jagan, When Grandpa Cheddi was a Boy and other Stories, Patricia the Baby Manatee, Anastasia the Ant-Eater, The Dog Who Loved Flowers

CLR James, Minty Alley, Beyond a Boundary*, American Civilisation, World Revolution

Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

David Jenkins, Black Zion

George Lamming, In the Castle of my Skin, The Emigrants*, The Pleasures of Exile*, Season for Adventure*

Andrea Levy, Small Island*, The Long Song*

Earl Lovelace, The Dragon Can't Dance*, The Wine of Astonishment*

Roger Mais, The Hills Were Joyful Together, Brother Man

Edgar Mittelholzer, Kaywana series*, A Morning at the Office*, Mr Bones and My Flute, Life and Death of Sylvia*

V S Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, The Mystic Masseur, Miguel Street (* various)

Leonardo Padura, The Man Who Loved Dogs, Heretics, Havana … (various colours)

V S Reid, New Day

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea*, Tales of the Wide Caribbean*

Andrew Salkey, A Quality of Violence*, Anancy's Score*, Stories from the Caribbean (edited)*, Jamaica, Escape to an Autumn Pavement

Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge of Beyond*

Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners*, A Brighter Sun, Ways of Sunlight

Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls Rising, Master of the Crossroads, The Stone That the Builder Refused

Derek Walcott, Omeros~

Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery *

Sylvia Wynter, The Hills of Hebron

AFRICAN 

Peter Abrahams, Mine Boy*, Wild Conquest, Return to Goli, A Night of Their Own, Dark Testament,

Tell Freedom (his autobiography), Path of Thunder, A Wreath for Udomo*

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart*, No Longer at Ease*, Arrow of God, Education of a British

Protected Child, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savanah*, The Trouble with Nigeria, There was

a Country*

George Alagiah, The Burning Land*

Margaret Busby (ed), Daughters of Africa, New Daughters of Africa

Elechi Amadi, The Concubine

Charlotte H Bruner (ed), African Women's Writing

Nafissatou Diallo, A Dakar Childhood

Cyprian Ekwensi, Burning Grass

Caroline Elkins, Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya*

Nuruddin Farah, Maps, Gifts, Secrets, Crossbones*, Close Sesame*

Aminatta Forna, The Devil that Danced on the Water*, The Memory of Love

Christopher Fyfe, A Short History of Sierra Leone

Muga Gatheru, Child of Two Worlds

Nadine Gordimer, *# various

Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise

Bessie Head, A Question of Power~, When Rain Clouds Gather*

Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya*

David Jenkins, Black Zion

Alex La Guma, Time of the Butcherbird*, A Walk in the Night

Naguib Mafouz, Midaq Alley

Aida Edemariam, The Wife’s Tale

Mutuzeli Matshoba, Call Me Not a Man

Ezekiel Mphahlele, Down Second Avenue, Renewal Time*, Chirundu

Mesa Mwangi, Going Down River Road

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun*

Ben Okri, The Famished Road

Roland Oliver (ed), The Middle Age of African History, A Short History of Africa*

Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood

Pepetela, Mayombe, Yaka

Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa*

Ola Rotimi, The Gods are not to Blame~

Gillian Slovo, Ties of Blood*

Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters~*

Miriam Tlali, Muriel at Metropolitan

Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Weep not Child, Devil on the Cross*, Petals of Blood*

Frank Willett, African Art

OTHER 

M. Bernal, Black Athena - The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation Vols 1*&2*

Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery*; The American Crucible, The Reckoning

Basil Davidson, The Story of Africa*, Africa in History*, The Lost Cities of Africa*

Frantz Fanon, Black Skins White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth*

Peter Fryer, Staying Power *- the history of black people in Britain

Kojo Jantuah, Odyssey to Elsinore

Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road*

David Olusoga, Black and British

Stephen Oppenheimer, Out of Eden

John Reader, Africa – A Biography of the Continent, Africa

Ronald Segal, The Black Diaspora, Islam’s Black Slaves

Anne Walmsley, The Caribbean Artists Movement