In the village of Gibbeah - where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives - magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two men of God. The story begins when a drunkard named Hector Bligh (the 'Rum Preach[...]

"No book this fall is more impressive than "A Brief History of Seven Killings."" ("Publishers Weekly")
From the acclaimed author of "The Book of Night Women" comes one of the year's most anticipated novels, a lyrical, masterfully written epic that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marl[...]

On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the[...]

This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women - a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt - recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence and f[...]

"A powerful first novel . . . Writing with assurance and control, James uses his small-town drama to suggest the larger anguish of a postcolonial society struggling for its own identity."
--"New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"
"Elements coalesce in a Jamaican stew spicier than jerk [...]