Huracan Deirdre O'Byrne

Huracan Deirdre O'ByrneFollowing her parents divorce, fifteen year old Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York City. Fifteen years later, after her mothers death she returns to the island, in its 50th year of independence, to find her estranged father and the family secrets he holds. Back home, but a white Jamaican in a black Jamaica, she struggles to come to terms with her familys part in the slave trade. Loosely based on the authors own family history, Huracan explores

embracing head-on apparent cultural conundrums

One of The Times’ “ten rising stars of British poetry”

Cecilia McGovern was born in County Mayo and has lived in Dublin all her adult life

eye-pained

The Troubled House presents us with a mature voice

for all tours must end at the same point they begin

Margaret Obank: Under the Naked Sky – Short Stories

art and imagination

As well as ensuring the continued performance of the many classics of the form written over the past four decades

anger and sense of historical morality as a storyteller are reminiscent of the early Gorki

startling and original

Hassouna Mosbahi James Joyce in Tunisia