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A reflective, entertaining and challenging collection of non-fiction writing from one of our great novelists ...
'Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation' New ...
Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of fourteen works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.
'A Distant Shore leaves a lingering taste in the mouth-A remarkable and penetrating novel' The Times
'Taut, fascinating and controversial.The Atlantic Sound may prove to be as influential today as Roots was a generation ago' Sunday Times
'Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation' New York Times
From 'one of the literary giants of our times' (New York Times), a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly ...
A novel in three parts, bound together with passion and sorrow, Higher Ground forms a haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned
A Booker shortlisted novel by one of the finest writers of his generation
Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by one of the most important authors of his generation
An unforgettable novel about loss and persecution, courage and betrayal, and about the terrible pain and necessity of human memory
A major novel about the multicultural Britain of today, by 'One of the literary giants of our time' New York Times
A brilliant and affecting novel based on the tragic life of a hero of American entertainment.