Bookshelf (Mar/Apr 2020) | Book reviews
This month’s reading picks, with reviews of Everything Inside; Sun of Consciousness; Nomad; A–Z of Caribbean Art; and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Remembering Windrush
When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948, its West Indian passengers didn’t know their arrival would become a historical watershed. A new exhibition at the British Library explains how the Windrush generation changed Britain for good
On holy ground: Noel Dyer
Hitchhiking, for obvious reasons, seems rather out of fashion these days. It would probably take you all day to get from Oxford, where I...
London is the place for me
Caribbean immigrants in London “The past is another country,” wrote LP Hartley, and perhaps never was this much-quoted dictum more...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2007)
Horizons: The Life and Times of Edric Connor, 1913–1968: An Autobiography, with a foreword by George Lamming, and an introduction by...
Edric Connor: O pioneer
Horizons: The Life and Times of Edric Connor, 1913-1968: An Autobiography, with a foreword by George Lamming, and an introduction by...
Sam Selvon: Words of Welcome
London in the post-war 1940s was a far cry from the “cool Britannia” of half a century later. Rationing was still in force, choking...
