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1	Crossing the River more books like this by Caryl Phillips Two brothers and a sister are sold into slavery. We meet the children at different stages of their lives, in different countries and centuries, as they try to survive the circumstances that the accident of their birth has bestowed upon them. This book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £5.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	A Distant Shore more books like this by Caryl Phillips Dorothy Jones has had a hell of a time. Her parents are dead, her late sister was badly abused by her husband, Dorothy's own husband abandoned her for a younger woman, her subsequent boyfriends have been losers, and she has just been fired from her schoolteaching job. At this low point in her life, her only friend is a handyman named Solomon who ... see all copies from £5.10! new only from £7.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Cambridge more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from £1.35! new only from £8.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Nature of Blood more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from £1.70! new only from £6.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Dancing in the Dark more books like this by Caryl Phillips Caryl Phillips's eighth novel is set in Harlem in the early 20th century and is based on a real person: Bert Williams ((1874-1922), who emigrated from the Bahamas as a child and went on to became a sought-after vaudeville performer. His claim to fame was his stereotypical portrayal of blacks--playing, in blackface, a comic character known as a ... see all copies from £1.96! new only from £1.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Final Passage more books like this by Caryl Phillips Leila is 19 years old and 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. By the author of the prize-winning "Crossing the River". see all copies from £1.35! new only from £10.31! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	A State of Independence more books like this by Caryl Phillips Bertram Francis, a British West Indian, has spent the last 20 years away from the Carribean. Now independence is looming and he is going back to see the end of colonial rule. But the visit is not the nostalgic homecoming he expected as he finds himself an outsider in a place he thought was home. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £10.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The European Tribe more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from £1.96! new only from £4.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Higher ground more books like this by Caryl Phillips An attempt to explore the psyche of the black world, this novel is in three parts. The author has written many scripts, and his previous books include "The Final Passage" winner of the Malcolm X award, and "A State of Independence", which won the 1987 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £2.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Atlantic Sound more books like this by 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; and Charleston, known as the entry point to America where one-third of black slaves were bought and sold. see all copies from £2.38! new only from £4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Higher Ground: 2a Novel in Three Parts more books like this by Caryl Phillips Covering three ages, this novel begins in the Caribbean with the slave trade at its height and moves into the 1960s with a series of letters from prison of a black American convict to his family. The final part, set in England, tells of a West Indian who is determined to leave for his native land. see all copies from £1.73! new only from £5.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Foreigners more books like this by 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 in English society. see all copies from £6.08! new only from £9.36! \| first editions
13 view cover	Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging more books like this by Caryl Phillips (Editor) see all copies from £2.73! new only from £9.43!
14 view cover	The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology more books like this by 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. see all copies from £6.08! new only from £9.70! \| first editions
15 view cover	A New World Order: Essays more books like this by Caryl Phillips Essays by an Afro-Caribbean novelist on writers and other artists who, like himself, are in some way "stateless," including V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, Nadine Gordimer, and the singer Marvin Gaye. see all copies from £6.48! new only from £8.92!
16	The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis more books like this by Caryl Phillips From Samuel Pepys to Martin Amis, tennis has attracted the attention of many prominent writers, perhaps because there are often other considerations on court, such as politics, class, sex, money, gender or race. This anthology contains pieces by novelists, journalists and players. see all copies from £1.35! new only from £8.68! \| first editions
17 view cover	Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair. ... see all copies from £1.96! new only from £1.96!
18	Playing Away more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from £9.32! first editions
19	Speak Fiction and Poetry!: The Best of BOMB Magazine's Interviews with Writers more books like this by Betsy Sussler, Caryl Phillips, Ronalde Shavers This text presents an anthology of "BOMB" magazine's interviews with writers. The writers featured include Walter Mosley, Russell Banks, Jeanette Winterson, Paul Auster, Michael Ondaatje, Graham Swift, Peter Carey, Caryl Phillips, Willem Dafoe, Sheila Bosworth and Padgett Powell. see all copies from £28.93! new only from £31.58!
20 view cover	New World Order more books like this by Caryl Phillips This text ranges widely across the Atlantic World that Caryl Phillips has charted in his novels and non-fiction books since 1980. Phillips begins by introducing the reader to books by such authors as James Baldwin, Joseph Conrad and Richard Wright. He then goes on to reflect on the work of such seminal figures as Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul and ... see all copies from £2.98! new only from £5.92! \| first editions
21	The shelter more books like this by Caryl Phillips A West Virginia Girl Guides camp in 1963 is the setting for Jayne Anne Phillips's exploration of primitive evil. Two sisters, Lenny and Alma, are separated in different tents. Alma is upset about their mother, while Lenny is concerned with her best friend, Cap, who has been abandoned by her own mother. Buddy, the wide-eyed eight year old son of ... see all copies from £42.07! signed copies \| first editions
22	Strange fruit more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from £44.58! signed copies \| first editions
23	Where there is darkness more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from £19.72! signed copies \| first editions
24	Sonido del Atlantico, El more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from £22.05! new only from £30.21!
25 view cover	Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair. ... see all copies from £13.82! new only from £13.82!

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