Jamaica
No call a man dead til you bury him
Death is big business in parts of the Caribbean. In the Jamaican capital of Kingston, funeral homes with their plastic…
Respect
‘Respect!’ cried my husband, drop-kicking a cushion with a picture of the Queen Mother holding a pint of beer on…
Madness in the ghetto
There are many more than seven killings in this ironically titled novel — in fact very long — that starts…
The new Turner?
What happens to an artist’s reputation when he dies? Traditionally, there was a period of cooling off when the reputation,…
The colonel and the commander
Between the brothers Peter and Ian Fleming, Fionn Morgan wonders who was the better writer and who the better man
Disciplined exoticism
Lewis Jones on Ian Fleming’s Jamaican retreat and the inspiration it provided for the Bond novels
Welcome to the club
Writing frankly about Jamaica has made me nervous of invitations from strangers. How would this one turn out?
