Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the worlds greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Peng...Daugiau...
London will do for you for now And I will do for London.London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry Sir Galahad Oliver is impatient to start his new life. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloet...Daugiau...
This irresistible, bittersweet collection of short stories from the supreme chronicler of West Indian lives in Britain brings together two worlds: Trinidad and London. Here is an illicit love affair on a plantation, gossip and rivalry between villag...Daugiau...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the worlds greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Peng...Daugiau...
The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition.At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the Wes...Daugiau...
Moses thinks hes got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in Shepherds Bush, London. He has visions of being master of his own domain, writing his memoirs while his trusty sidekick and h...Daugiau...
Elizabeth Dearnley, Elizabeth Bowen, Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton, Sam Selvon, Claude McKay, Edith Nesbit, Violet Hunt, Lettice Galbraith, E. F. Benson...
As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. A jilted lover returns as a demon to fulfill his revenge in Kensington, and a seance becomes a life and death struggle off Regents C...Daugiau...
Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel New York Review of Books Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends deci...Daugiau...
The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon A Penguin Classic Set in London in the 1960s, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of...Daugiau...
Moses, a Trinidadian who has been in England for some years represents immigrants who come from all corners of the world to seek a better life. Like many immigrants he is hard-working. After years of living in a dingy basement he saves up enough mone...Daugiau...
At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry Sir Galahad Oliver and shows him...Daugiau...
The first Indian indentured laborers came to the Caribbean more than150 years ago, and their traditional values have had to confront a rapidly changing world in 20th century Trinidad. Highway in the Sun tells the story of Tiger and U...Daugiau...
