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  • Earl Lovelace

    by Funso Aiyejina ...
    Series series Caribbean Biography Series
    Earl Lovelace is a major Caribbean writer, one of the few of his generation to have lived in and written almost exclusively from the region. With sharp observation and even sharper wit, his writing pulses with the rhythm, flow and vibrancy of the lives of “ordinary” people, whose culture and language he champions.Lovelace explores the intricacies of his multicultural society as it grapples with a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Earl Lovelace

    by Funso Aiyejina ...
    Narrated by Peter Hopkins ...
    Series series Caribbean Biography Series

    Unabridged

    3 hours 6 min

    Earl Lovelace is a major Caribbean writer, one of the few of his generation to have lived in and written almost exclusively from the region. With sharp observation and even sharper wit, his writing pulses with the rhythm, flow and vibrancy of the lives of “ordinary” people, whose culture and language he champions. Lovelace explores the intricacies of his multicultural society as it grapples with a ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Poems for a Century

    An Anthology on Nigeria

    by Tope Omoniyi, Tope Omoniyi, Kole Ade-Odutola, Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, Richard Ali, Ifi Amadiume, Afam Akeh, Tade Akin Aina0, Peter Akinlabi1, Funso Aiyejina2, Ismail Bala3, John Pepper Clark4, Omohan Ebhodaghe5, Amatoritsero Ede6, Hope Eghagha7, Ogaga Ifowodo8, Zainabu Jallo9, Adebayo Lamikanra0, Akeem Lasisi1, Okinba Launko2, Chidi Anthony Opara3, Uche Nduka4, Obi Nwakanma5, Cyril Obi6, Olu Oguibe7, Tolu Ogunlesi8, Tanure Ojaide9, Femi Oyebode0, Jekwu Ozoemene1, Remi Raji2, E.E. Sule3, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu4, Olajumoke Verissimo6, Molara Wood (Wood, Molara) [A32] and Prince Abiathar Zadok7 ...
    In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thicker Than Water

    New Writing from the Caribbean

    Edited by Funso Aiyejina ...
    The latest release from Caribbean publisher Peekash Press celebrates some of the major new voices in Anglophone Caribbean literature.Difficult parents and lost children, unfaithful spouses and spectral lovers, mysterious ancestors and fierce bloodlines—the stories, poems, and memoirs in this new anthology tackle everything that's most complicated and thrilling about family and history in the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

    Edited by Margaret Busby ...
    A major international collection that brings together the work of women writers of African descent, showcasing their contributions to modern literature.Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby's Daughters of Africa was published to international acclaim and hailed as "an extraordinary body of achievement . . . a vital document of lost history" ( Sunday Times) and "the ultimate reference guide" ( ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Black Marks on the White Page

    by Witi Ihimaera, Tina Makereti ...
    A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st century stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world. Vibrant, provocative and ... Read more

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  • Trinidad Noir

    The Classics

    by Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "To travel through the 19 works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTwo of Trinidad's top writers masterfully curate this literary retrospective of the nation's best writing over the past century from authors who were largely part of the literary wave that swept in with Trinidadian ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sans Souci

    And Other Stories

    by Dionne Brand ...
    **The breathtaking debut short story collection—first published in 1989—from one of Canada's most original and influential writers. Newly available in a special reissue edition from Knopf Canada.“This is political art at its searing best.”—The Women's Review of Books**Since her the appearance of her novel In Another Place, Not Here, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, award-winning ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • This Party's Dead

    Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals

    by Erica Buist ...
    Grief, joy and spilled rum at the world's death festivalsBy the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. Erica searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an ... Read more

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  • Black Sugarcane

    by Nafanua Purcell Kersel ...
    Black Sugarcane is a landmark debut collection by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. Restless in form and address, these engaging and generous poems ricochet from light to dark, quiet to loud, calm to violence. We meet a loved twin sister as she dives towards the Sacred Centre, a grandmother who knows everything by heart, a shrugging office clerk, and Nafanua herself, an enigmatic shapeshifter. At the heart ... Read more

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  • Standing Female Nude

    by Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE ...
    Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely political, exploring memory, gender, childhood and place. Within it are also some of her best-known poems, including 'Education for Leisure', as ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • How To Live Your Life

    by Ruskin Bond ...
    It's a letter with advice ... it's Ruskin Bond's definition of Life!Be whatever you want to be...Give it your heart and soul, and you will have made something of your life, my friend. You are all my sons and daughters when it comes to telling you --HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE.-- Ruskin BondA book packed with all the good advice anyone, any age, would love and benefit from because it is sound wisdom ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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