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Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time: Strange Fruit, Where There is Darkness, and The Shelter.

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What do we mean by 'English' How does our island look from abroad, and what aspects of our experience do we share with, for example, America Taking as its starting point a recollection of growing up in Leeds during the 1970s, this collection of essays and other non-fiction writing ranges from the literary to the cultural and autobiographical.

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As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on a journey in search of freedom. This novel is a true story that marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.

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Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize) is the powerful and compelling story of a Black British family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no mans land that can come between parents and their children.

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Caryl Phillips explores three pivotal cities of slavery.

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The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)

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The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad 30-year marriage and is trying to rebuild a life. It's not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living nearby, but gradually they establish a form of comfort in each other's presenc

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Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves.

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

Caryl Phillips ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora.

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'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' This is how W.C. Fields described Bert Williams, the highest-paid entertainer in America in his heyday and someone who counted the King of England and Buster Keaton among his fans.

Born in the Bahamas, he moved to California with his family.

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The FINAL PASSAGE is Caryl Phillips's first novel and tells the story of Leila, a nineteen- year- old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms.

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Presents the stories of Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson; Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer; and, David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice.

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Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations.

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Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips inspired by Wuthering Heights.

It is the 1960s.

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A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal crisis and momentous social conflict. What emerges is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with sameness and difference, with blood.

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One of our most acclaimed novelists adopts two disparate narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this damning critique of 1960s Britain