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This second edition, with a new four-colour format, has been completely revised and updated.

The Sly Company of People Who Care is the winner of the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

Astonishingly vivid, bawdy, and tempestuous, this novel is a cautionary tale about greed and class conflict in postcolonial Guyana.

First published in 1941, this vivid and poetic family saga was the first modern novel to focus on the lives of immigrants from India in the British Caribbean colonies.

Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by'a writer to watch and to enjoy.

Pauline Melville conjures up vivid pictures both of savanna and forest and of city life in South America where love is often trumped by the disaster.

Candidly describes the problems overcome by this Black teacher in teaching distrustful, rebellious teenagers in a London slum school

Mittelholzer creates a brilliantly atmospheric setting for his characters and their terrified discovery that this is not a place where they can be at home.