Exiled from his native Jamaica, Boswell Anderson, a reformed gambler and rake, is the proprieter of the run-down Caribbean Sunset Cafe in Hackney. When his friend, Stone Mason, invites him to a big poker game, Boswell finds the world coming into much sharper focus.

The Last Blues Dance

Dennis, Ferdinand

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Victor Gollancz

1988, trade paperback edition, Gollancz, London, U.K. 216 pages. Based on the author's Radio 4 broadcasts in the U.K.

Duppy Conqueror

<div>Marshall Sarjeant is born at the beginning of the 20th century in Paradise, Jamaica. As a young man, he is entrusted with a mythical quest to overcome a curse that has been put on his family. He must do this by returning to Africa from where family members were brought as slaves. Marshall's epic journey takes him first to wartime Liverpool and then London, where he marries and mixes with a clubland crowd of gamblers, musicians, and politicians. In Africa, he finds a continent in the turbulent throes of attempting to escape a colonial past.Returning to Paradise, Marshall's life turns full circle in his epic mission to defeat the duppy, or ghost that started him on his voyage. In Duppy Conqueror, Ferdinand Dennis has created a powerful narrative of the Afro-Caribbean experience in which the personal and the political seamlessly collide. Its themes are as relevant today as when it was first published in 1998.</div>

Literary

HopeRoad

A collection of short stories powerfully portraying the black presence in post-Windrush London The Black And White Museum covers generational conflict, the social threat of black men, the wistful longings that disrupt lives, the powerlessness of the old. Set in a city undergoing obscene gentrification, the stories powerfully portray the black presence in post-Windrush London. Dennis writes movingly about aging, faded loves, and everyday racism. As they get older, his characters (mainly male) get wiser but they are less able to change the course of their lives. For some there is the temptation of a return "home" but home, like London, has also moved on and is not the paradise of their memories.

The Black and White Museum

Genre Fiction

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The Last Blues Dance

Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain

Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain

Duppy Conqueror

The Black and White Museum