Harvill Secker (UK); Alfred A. Knopf (USA), 2007
From "one of the literary giants of our times" (The New York Times)—a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society.
Secker and Warburg (UK); Alfred A. Knopf (USA), 2005
A searing novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874—1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Secker and Warburg (UK); Alfred A. Knopf (USA), 2003
Set in contemporary England, A Distant Shore is the story of an African man and an English woman whose hidden lives, and worlds, are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection. Finalist for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award.
Faber and Faber (UK); Alfred A. Knopf (USA), 1997
At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by the loss of everyone she loves.
Bloomsbury (UK), 1993; Alfred A. Knopf (USA), 1994
An evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. A voice speaking out of a distant past describes the consequences of his desperation: his daughter and two sons condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753.
Bloomsbury (UK), 1991; Alfred A. Knopf (USA), 1992
Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman.
Viking (UK & USA), 1989
In Africa, a man recounts his days within the grinding machine of the slave trade. Though spared manacles and a hellish ocean crossing by assisting in the degrading business, he is forced finally to confront an inescapable, vicious paradox: in the eyes of both his masters and his own people he is a pariah—less than a man.
Faber and Faber (UK); Farrar, Straus & Giroux (USA), 1986
Bertram Francis is a British West Indian who has spent the last twenty years away from the Caribbean. Now Independence is looming and he is going back to see the end of colonial rule.
Faber and Faber (UK); Penguin (USA), 1985
A haunting work about "the final passage"—the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities of England.