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Nationwide campaign launches to find, mentor and publish new authors from communities under-represented on bookshelves

August 3, 2016 arts

The UK’s biggest book publisher, Penguin Random House, has joined forces with writer development charities Spread the Word, Writing West Midlands and Commonword to launch WriteNow.  The nationwide initiative aims to find, mentor and publish new writers from communities under-represented on the UK’s bookshelves. WriteNow aims to find exceptional unpublished writers that are under-represented in books and publishing. This includes writers from a socio-economically…

Books| Banana Bottom by Claude McKay

April 13, 2016 arts

In ‘Banana Bottom’, Claude McKay explores his own version of Pygmalion in the Caribbean island of Jamaica. After enjoying a European education via white missionary benefactors, Bita Plant is returning home. The missionaries, Malcolm and Priscilla Craig, have mapped out Bita’s life completely. She will receive training at the mission in Jubilee; she will serve…

The Quiet Powerhouse | Jennifer G Robinson

April 13, 2016 arts

A quiet but powerful intensity inhabits Alex Wheatle which is not apparent in his stature. This author of six novels is very passionate about his beliefs; his writing; his books; almost as though they were, children. ‘Black History Month’, that annual necessary evil, has recently come to a close in the UK and Alex has…