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ISBN: 9781846553059 - Colour Me English Colour Me English
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 1846553059  ISBN13: 9781846553059
Publisher: Vintage Harvill Secker
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Aug 2011
What do we mean by 'English'? And how does our island look from abroad, and what aspects of our experience do we share with, for example, America - a nation built by outsiders and the huddled masses? This title broadens into a reflective and... More

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ISBN: 9780099520566 - Cambridge Bestseller Cambridge
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 0099520567  ISBN13: 9780099520566
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2008
Tells the story of Emily Cambridge, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England who is now struggling to maintain his... More

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ISBN: 9780099498261 - Crossing the River Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 009949826X  ISBN13: 9780099498261
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Sep 2006
A voice speaking out of a distant past, describes the consequences of his desperation: his daughter and two sons are condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753. Here, are the stories of these children: Nash, Martha... More

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ISBN: 9780099428886 - A Distant Shore Bestseller A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 0099428881  ISBN13: 9780099428886
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2004
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... More

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ISBN: 9780099429968 - The Atlantic Sound The Atlantic Sound
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 0099429969  ISBN13: 9780099429968
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2001
Phillips explores three cities of slavery. Liverpool, constructed on the slave trade, now denying its past; the Ghanaian city of Elmina, site of the important slave embarkation fort in Africa; and Charleston, known as the entry point to America... More

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ISBN: 9780099520573 - The Nature of Blood The Nature of Blood
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 0099520575  ISBN13: 9780099520573
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2008
Tells the inextricably linked stories of a young Jewish woman growing up in mid-twentieth-century Germany, and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth-century Venice. This novel discusses about how we define... More

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ISBN: 9780099468585 - Final Passage Final Passage
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 0099468581  ISBN13: 9780099468585
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2004
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. More

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ISBN: 9780099539742 - In the Falling Snow In the Falling Snow
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 0099539748  ISBN13: 9780099539742
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jun 2010
Keith is a social worker who, following a brief affair with a colleague, finds himself living alone in a flat a few streets away from his wife, Annabelle, and his teenage son. His domestic problems, allied with growing tensions at work... More

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ISBN: 9780099488859 - Foreigners Foreigners
Caryl Phillips

ISBN10: 009948885X  ISBN13: 9780099488859
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2008
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... More

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ISBN: 9780099488873 - Dancing in the Dark Dancing in the Dark
Caryl Phillips, Janet Hobhouse

ISBN10: 0099488876  ISBN13: 9780099488873
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Sep 2006
Born in the Bahamas, Bert Williams moved to California with his family. Too poor to attend Stanford University, he took to life on the stage with his friend George Walker. Together they played lumber camps and mining towns until they eventually... More