Small Island - Andrea LevyCondition: Pre Loved Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival

just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert

when unexpected financial hardship overtook her family during the 1960s

in Puerto Rico

But Genie’s story stretches back much further: it tells of her grandfather

In the Land of No Right Angles introduces the fiction of Daphne Beal

ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband

Ladismith’s famous crime fighter is back – with a tin of buttermilk rusks in hand – to restore peace from the Klein Karoo to the great Limpopo River

but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class

and relentless hope are

the broken yellow moon in it

) The problem is

Six months pregnant