BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLACK BRITISH WRITERS
BY AUTHOR

Breeze Binta Jean
Born: Jamaica, 1959
Immigrated to England:1987

  • Riddym Ravings and other poems ed Mervyn Morris London: Race Today
    Publications, 1988
  • Spring Cleaning. London: Virago Publications, 1992
  • On the Edge of an Island. London: Virago, 1997

Buffong Jean
Born: Grenada
Immigrated to England: 1962

  • Jump up and Kiss Me by Jean Buffong and Nellie Payne. London: The Women's
    Press, 1990
  • Under the Silk Cotten Tree. London: The Women's Press, 1992
  • Snowflakes In the Sun. London: The Women's Press, 1995

Casear Inruh Bakari
Born: St Kitts
Immigrated to England: 1966

  • Sounds and Echoes.London: Karnak House, 1980
  • Secret Lives. London: Bogle O'uverture Publishers, 1986

Collins Merle
Born: Grenada, 1950

  • The Dawn Breaks! Poems dedicated to the Grenadian People London: Karia Press 1985
  • Angel. London: The Womes's Press, 1987
  • Rain Darling and other Stories. London: The Women's press, 1990
  • Rotten Pomerack. London: Virago, 1992
  • The Colour of Forgetting. London; Virago Publications, 1995

Dennis Ferdinand
Born: Jamaica

  • The Last Blues Dance. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996
  • The Sleepless Summer Nights.
  • Duppy Conquerer. London : Flamingo Harper, 1998

Dabydeen David
Born: Guyana, 1955
Immigrated to England: 1969

  • Slave Song. London: Dangaroo Press, 1984; reprinted 1986.
  • Coolie Odyssey. London: Hansib, 1988
  • The Intended. London: Secker and Warburg, 1990
  • Disappearence. London: Secker and Warburg, 1993
  • Turner: New and Selected Poems. London : 1994
  • The Counting House. London: Jonathan Cape: 1996

D'Aguiar Fred
Born: Guyana

Immigrated to England: Birth, returned to Guyana at 2, came to England, 12

  • Mama Dot. London: Chatto and Windus, 1985
  • Airy Hall. London: Chatto and Windus: 1989
  • British Subjects. London: Bolldaxe Books, 1993
  • The Longest Memory. London: Chatto and Windus, 1994
  • Dear Future. London : Chatto and Windus 1996
  • Feeding the Ghosts: 1997

Dalphinis Morgan
Born: St Lucia
Immigrated to England: age 11

  • For Those Who Will Come After. London: Karia Press 1985

Douglas J.D.
Born:

Immigrated to England:

  • Caribbean Man's Blues. London: Akira Press, 1985

George Paul
Born:

Immigrated to England:

  • Memories. London: The Commonplace Workshop, 1976

Gilroy Beryl
Born: Guyana, 1924
Immigrated to England:1951

  • Black Teacher. London: Cassel and Co, 1976
  • Frangipanni House. London: Heinemann, 1986
  • Boy Sandwich. London: Heinemann, 1989
  • Echoes and Voices- Open heart Poetry. London: 1991
  • Stedman and Joanna in Love. London: Vantage Press, 1992
  • Inkle and Yarico. Great Britain: Peepal Tree Press, 1996
  • Gather the Faces. Great Britain: Peepal Tree Press, 1996
  • In Praise of Love and Children. Great Britain: Peepal Tree Press, 1996

Fuller Vernella
Born:

Immigrated to England:

  • Going Back Home. London. The Women's Press, 1992
  • Unlike Normal Women. London: The Women's Press, 1995

Huntley Accabre
Born: England, 1967, heritage Guyanese

  • At School Today. London. Bogle O'uverture, 1977
  • Easter Monday Blues. London. Bogle O'uverture, 1983

Johnson Amyrl
Born: Trinidad
Immigrated to England: age 11

  • Early Poems. London: Sable Publications, 1982
  • Long Road to Nowhere. London: Virago Press, 1985
  • Sequins for a Ragged Hem. London. Virago Press, 1988 Press, 1991
  • Gorgons. London, Cofa Press, 1992

Johnson Desmond
Born:

Immigrated to England:

  • Thereas and my People. Great Britain: Black Ink, 1983
  • Deadly Ending Season. London: Akira Press, 1984

Johnson Linton Kwesi
Born: Jamaica, 1952
Immigrated to England: 1963

  • Voices of the Living and the Dead. London: Race Race Today Publications, 1974
  • Dread Beat and Blood. London: Bogle O'uverture, 1975
  • Inglan is a Bitch. London: Race Today Publications, 1980
  • Tings and Times. London: Bloodaxe Books, 1991

Levy Andrea
Born: England

  • Every Light in the House Burnin. London: Headline Review, 1994
  • Never Far from Nowhere. London. Headline Review, 1996

Matthews Pauline
Born:

Immigrated to England:

  • My home in Jamaica. London: Centerprise, 1978

Martin Stanley
Born:
Immigrated to England:

  • Where I am Coming From. London : Akira Press, 1985

Meiling Jin
Born: Guyana, 1956
Immigrated to England:

  • Crafts from my Grandmother. London: Sheba Feminists Publishers, 1985
  • The Song of the Boatwoman

Melville Pauline
Born: Guyana, 1959
Immigrated to England:

  • Shape Shifter. London: The Women's Press, 1990
  • The Ventroliquists Tale. London: Bloomsbury, 1997

Miller Lorna
Born: Jamaica
Immigrated to England:

  • Pinpointing Realities. London: Inky Fingers, 1984
  • The Black Race. London: Inky Fingers, 1985

Murray Millie
Born: London, 1958 of Jamaican heritage

  • Keisha. London: The Women's Press, 1988

Nelson Errol
Born: Jamaica, 1953
Immigrated to England: 19
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  • Spread the Word. 1979

Nicols Grace
Born: Guyana, 1950
Immigrated to England: 1977

  • I is a Long memoried Woman. London: Karnak House, 1983
  • The Fat Black Woman's Poems. London: Virago Press, 1984
  • Whole of a Morning Sky. London: Virago Press, 1986
  • Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman. London: Virago Press, 1988
  • Sunris. London: Virago Press

Osbourne Ivor
Born: Jamaica,
Immigrated to England:

  • The Mercenery. London: Rex Collins, 1977
  • The Mango Season. London: Rex Collins, 1979
  • Prodigal. London: Antillean Publishers,1986

Phillips Caryl
Born: St Kitts, 1958
Immigrated to England: age 4 months

  • The Final Passage. London: Faber and Faber, 1985
  • The State of Independence. London: Faber and Faber, 1986
  • The European Tribe. London: Faber and Faber, 1987
  • Higher Ground. London: Viking, 1989
  • Cambridge. London: Bloomsbury, 1991
  • The Nature of Blood. 1997
  • Extravagant Strangers - A Literature of Belonging ed Caryl Phillips, 1997

Prescod Collin
Born: Trinidad, 1945
Immigrated to England: 1958

  • Rap Poetry. London : Race Today Publications 1980

Riley Joan
Born: Jamaica, 1958
Immigrated to England: 1976

  • The Unbelonging. London: The Women's Press, 1985
  • Waiting in the Twilight. London : The Women's Press, 1987
  • Romance. London: The Women's Press, 1988
  • A Kindness to the Children. London: The Women's Press, 1992
  • Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging ed Joan Riley and Brair Wood, Virago
    Press, 1996.

Scott Lawrence
Born: Trinidad,
Immigrated to England:

  • Witchbroom: A Novel. London: Allison and Busby, 1992
  • Ballad for the New World and Other Stories. London: Oxford Heinemenn 1994

Shinebourne Janice
Born: Guyana, 1947
Immigrated to England:

  • Timepiece. London: Peepal Tree press, 1986
  • The Last English Plantation. London: Peepal tree Press, 1988

Shore Louise
Born: Jamaica
Immigrated to England:

  • Pure Running. London: Centerprise, 1982

Simon David
Born: Grenada
Immigrated to England:

  • Railton Blues. London: Bogle O'uverture, 1983
  • Secrets of the Sapodilla. London Akira press, 1986

White Ruel
Born: Monserrat
Immigrated to England:

  • Heroes Through The Day. London: New Beacon Books, 1990

Wilson T- Bone
Born: Guyana
Immigrated to England: 1962

  • Counterblast. London: Karnak House, 1980

Wiltshire Pauline
Born: Jamaica
Immigrated to England:

  • Living and Winning. London: Centerprise, 1985

Zephaniah Benjamin
Born: London

  • Pen Rhythms. London, 1980
  • This Dread Affair. London: Arena, 1985
  • Propa Propoganda. London: Bloodaxe Books, 1996
  • Liverpool. London: Africa Arts Collective, 1998
 

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