The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of RainmakersIn 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean. These are brought together in the current volume. In the absence of reliable history, and in the face of the stereotypes attached to these people (such as stoicism or a propensity for laughter), Harris makes no attempt to write conventional fictional reconstructions of an

since 2005

a psychiatrist in Trinidad

following Maps and Utopia

the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition and the Cinnamon Award

After publishing Rina’s War (2001) and The Red Zone (2007)

motorcycling

Towns in Britain is an evocation and appreciation of our towns and cities and an evaluation of the changes which have shaped them over the last sixty years

Professor of Caribbean Literature at Vassar College New York

Schertenleib

its inevitable lettings-go

His debut collection

There is a freshness and matter-of-fact vitality in the air from all the authors