Jamaica Kincaid

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books In this acclaimed travel memoir, Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaid's work. Among Flowers intertwines meditations on nature and stunning...

Poetic and affecting - Robert Antoni, The Washington Post The island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies...

'Controlled and fearless perfection' - The Washington Post Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother's life and death is also the story of her family in Antigua—centred round her destructive mother—and a portrait of an illness misunderstood. From one of today's most...

If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center - New York Times A piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness. Kincaid inhabits each of her characters - a mother, a father, and...

Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing - Chicago Tribune Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' column from 1978 to 1983. New York is a town that fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers its many hidden secrets and urban mannerisms as she...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to...

A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid. ‘An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer’ - Susan Sontag ‘What a writer’ - Ali Smith ‘Both a daughter of Brontë and Woolf and her own inimitable self’ - The Wall Street Journal 'If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you’ - Jackie Kay That’s the way I write. It’s...