African: A Children’s Picture Book
A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.
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Catalog Tag: Jamaica
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics & Flesh
Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays.
The Angels’ Share
A Jamaican father and his adult son travel across the island together in a touching and humorous novel that explores family reconciliation.
The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business
An inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by the founder of the most successful Caribbean business ever established in the US.
Bivouac
The death of a Jamaican man’s father raises questions about the father’s political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.
Black Marks
A powerful tale of a young woman’s quest to unearth her identity, lost between cultures and families.
Cane Warriors
Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history, paying homage to freedom fighters all over the world.
Caribbean Debuts Digit
The free Caribbean Debuts Digit features excerpts from four great debut works of fiction in our catalog: Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse, The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave (Haiti), and John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James.
Dog War
The highly anticipated new novel and debut US publication from the legendary Jamaican author of The Lunatic and The Duppy.
The Duppy
Oddball sexuality, acts of perversion, and out-of-order behavior from the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Lunatic and Dog War.
How funny is this social satire? Akashic Books’s pledge to our readers: Laugh out loud at least once or your money back. Seriously.
Even in Paradise
A modern-day King Lear, a novel of greed, resentment, jealousy, betrayal, and romance set in Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados.
The Family Mansion
An illuminating and unflinching novel exploring England’s 19th-century colonization of Jamaica.
The Girl with the Golden Shoes
A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica’s top-selling writer.
Go de Rass to Sleep
A Jamaican patois translation of the New York Times, Amazon.com, and Wall Street Journal number one best seller and worldwide phenomenon.
God Carlos
A provocative and persuasive historical novel exploring the Spanish brutality against native Indians in early 16th-century Jamaica.
Gomer’s Song
Award-winning poet Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest for Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series.
The Gospel According to Cane
After her infant son is kidnapped, Beverley Cottrell’s marriage fails. Years later, could a mysterious, lurking young man be her long-lost son?
The Half That’s Never Been Told: The Real-Life Reggae Adventures of Doctor Dread
A passionate memoir and fearless behind-the-scenes look at the personal lives of the biggest reggae stars in the world.
I Am a Promise
An inspiring children’s picture book about the indomitable spirit of Jamaican eight-time Olympic medal winner Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce.
Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop
Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.
John Crow’s Devil
The long-awaited paperback reissue of the acclaimed Jamaican author’s debut novel.
Kaylie Jones Books Digit
The free The Kaylie Jones Books Digit features excerpts from our three Kaylie Jones Books releases.
Kemosha of the Caribbean
In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailing to Panama with the legendary Captain Morgan.
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Kingston Noir (Jamaica)
Following in the Caribbean footsteps of Haiti Noir and Trinidad Noir, now come dark stories from Jamaica’s capital city.
Little John Crow
After being abandoned by his animal friends, Little John Crow must come to terms with what it means to be part of a community when you are a vulture.
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The Lunatic
The first-ever US publication of the Caribbean comic classic that is also a major motion picture.
A Million Aunties
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother’s Caribbean homeland.
Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean
A pan-Caribbean anthology of original short stories culled from the very best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta
A fascinating first-person origin story of Rastafari ideology, culture, and philosophy, capturing a crucial and little-known chapter in Jamaican history
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Providential
Best-selling writer Colin Channer’s debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman.
A Simple Distance
A provocative debut that masterfully fuses issues of culture, race, sexuality, and family.
So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans
Brand-new fiction, essays, and poems from seventeen island countries around the world.
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection.
A Tall History of Sugar
A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook
A cookbook inspired by the food of Ziggy’s upbringing in the household of Bob and Rita Marley.
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