“Garnett Myrie came into this world on 27 September 1953 and grew up in the hills of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. When his uncle went to the United States as a farm worker in 1960 and brought back Black liberation literature, he became enamored with “Black Power”. He got himself in trouble when he became bold […]

Born in 1915 to a family whose home had once been the converted slave barracks on an old sugar estate, Sir Howard Cooke looks back on a life that mirrors the history of modern Jamaica. From rebellious schoolboy to Mico scholar, his subsequent years as teacher throughout the 1930s were a time of extreme social […]

Rachel Manley, granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica’s national leaders, tells the story of the brilliant and artistic Manleys, Jamaica’s most prominent and glamorous political family, and the house in which they lived, Drumblair. Manley vividly recreates the world in which she came of age in this intimate and captivating memoir ...