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Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Books) have acquired my creative nonfiction book Scanning the Bush!

  • Writer: African Atlantic Futures
    African Atlantic Futures
  • Dec 1, 2022
  • 1 min read

My debut prose book is part memoir, part history, part auto-ethnography, and 100% storytelling. It's about my people's relationship to land, and examines ways of living with plants, herbs, trees, and the earth. The story uses my own life as a way of understanding my people's relationship with land and thereby moves between my birthplace of Coffee Grove in Jamaica and Yorkshire, England, where I now live. You can read a description of the work here: https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/hutchinson-heinemann-picks-allen-paisants-intimate-work-of-beauty



 
 
 

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