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    Crossing the River

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    Caryl Phillips

    Helen Thomas

    Examines the ways in which Phillips responds to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic exploitation. Highlighting the negotiations between Britain and its previous colonies, this study demonstrates…

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    Giovanni’s Room

    James Baldwin

    Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and…

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    Conversations with Caryl Phillips

    Collects nineteen interviews conducted over more than two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Caribbean. While Phillips tends to hide behind his characters in his fiction…

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    Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies

    Written to honor the career of Benedicte Ledent, this volume explores the multiple ramifications that the notion of genealogy takes in, across and beyond Caryl Phillips's work; it offers a…

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    History and Race in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood

    Maria Festa

    This monograph examines Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus on Jewish and African diasporas and…

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    The Atlantic Sound

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    Colour Me English

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    In the Falling Snow

    Caryl Phillips

    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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    Caryl Phillips: Plays One: Strange Fruit; Where There is Darkness; The Shelter

    Caryl Phillips

    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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    A New World Order: Essays

    Caryl Phillips

    The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer…

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    Color Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging

    Caryl Phillips

    Published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, London, 2011 –T.p. verso.

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    The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology

    Caryl Phillips

    From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams, 65 great writings on tennis chronicle the transformation of the sport in our time.

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    The Atlantic Sound

    Caryl Phillips

    In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade. Juxtaposing stories of the past…

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    Foreigners

    Caryl Phillips

    A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical facts, this novel tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner…

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    Crossing the River

    Caryl Phillips

    In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father…

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    The Nature of Blood

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    A View of the Empire at Sunset

    Caryl Phillips

    “[A] remarkable novel… The story of a troubled young woman trying to make her way in England during the early years of the twentieth century’ WILLIAM BOYDIn the heart of…

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    The Lost Child

    Caryl Phillips

    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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    Dancing in the Dark

    Caryl Phillips

    ‘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…

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    Cambridge

    Caryl Phillips

    One of England’s most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a…

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    Cambridge

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    The Lost Child

    Caryl Phillips

    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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    In the Falling Snow

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    A State of Independence

    Caryl Phillips

    A novel from the author of HIGHER GROUND and THE FINAL PASSAGE.

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    A Distant Shore

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    Final Passage

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    The Final Passage

    Caryl Phillips

    As nineteen-year-old Leila surveys her island home from the ship that will carry her, her husband, and baby to England, she contemplates the Caribbean life of the 1950s that is…

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    Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging

    Caryl Phillips

    An anthology about what it means to be British, incorporating 18th-century black writers with direct experience of the slave trade, white writers whose birth in British colonies resulted in a…

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    Strange Fruit

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    Foreigners: Three English Lives

    Caryl Phillips

    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…

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    A View of the Empire at Sunset

    Caryl Phillips

    Award-winning writer Caryl Phillips presents a beautiful, heart-breaking novel of the life of Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea.  

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    The European Tribe

    Caryl Phillips

    An introduction to the concepts of time and time-telling, with a fold-out clockface, games, activities and projects. Age group 5 plus.

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    Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11

    Caryl Phillips

    A collection of the author’s observations on race, culture, and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks discusses his childhood memories of a Muslim fellow student and his international…

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    Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery

    Abigail Ward

    This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain…

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    Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery

    Abigail Ward

    This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain…

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    L'autre scene du desir: Strange Fruit de Caryl Phillips

    Frederic Lefrancois

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    Dancing in the Dark

    Caryl Phillips,Janet Hobhouse

    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…

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    Radio Plays

    Caryl Phillips

    Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of…

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    Radio Plays

    Caryl Phillips

    Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he has also written radio plays…

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    Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary

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    A republication of the great Joseph Conrad novel

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    Facing Diasporic Trauma: Self-Representation in the Writings of John Hearne, Caryl Phillips, and Fred D'Aguiar

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    Slavery is a recurring motif in the writings of Fred D'Aguiar, John Hearne and Caryl Phillips. They narrate the fates of silenced victims who share the traumatic experience of racial…

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    On The Far Bank Of The River: ‘Der Unsympath’ in der Verarbeitung von Heimat, Geschichte und AEsthetik in ausgewahlten Romanen Caryl Phillips

    Markus Wegner

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2 -, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Institut fur England- und Amerikastudien), Veranstaltung: Atlantic Worlds: The Novels of…

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    The Housing Lark

    Sam Selvon

    First published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965; published in the United States by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1990 –Copyright page.

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    To Sir With Love: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick

    Edward R. Braithwaite

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CARYL PHILLIPS In 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. In desperation he turns to teaching, taking…

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