Marlon James

Booker Prize-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology and fantasy to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch and a mystery with many answers

WINNER of the Man Booker Prize 2015 ‘Vast and vastly ambitious… much to admire…fascinating…the author’s imaginative and stylistic range are impressive.’ (Sunday Times) ‘It’s like a Tarantino remake of “The Harder They Come” but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner, with maybe a little creative boost […]

‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. I cannot wait for the next installment’ – Neil Gaiman In this stunning follow-up […]

December 1976. Jamaica befinner sig i en våldsam politisk strid när sju beväpnade män stormar in i Bob Marleys hem. Ryktet säger att sångaren blivit en bricka i ett maktspel med intressen långt utanför landets gränser. Baserad på verklighetens mordförsök på Bob Marley. En brutal och intensiv roman om mördare, politiker och langare, CIA-agenter, journalister […]