Books 5-8 in 'Jack Windrush', a series of historical war novels by Malcolm Archibald, now available in one volume! Windrush - Jayanti's Pawns: In the midst of the Indian Mutiny, war-weary soldier Jack Windrush is given a dangerous mission to track down a fierce female warrior named Jayanti. As he and his company navigate treacherous terrain, they face unexpected enemies and a deadly game of cat and mouse. But when they finally confront Jayanti, they realize she is a complex figure with her own motivations and secrets. Will Jack and his men survive the final confrontation in their campaign? Windrush - Warriors Of God: Years after leaving the army, Jack Windrush is sent to the Northwest Frontier of India to investigate gun-running among Pashtun tribes. But when he discovers a deeper threat, he is tasked with stopping the rogue group and preventing an uprising. As old friends become enemies and the Islamic revolt against the British intensifies, Jack and his unit must navigate a dangerous web of loyalties to save the day. Windrush - Agent Of The Queen: In the midst of political unrest, Jack Windrush is tasked with infiltrating the Fenian Brotherhood to prevent a mutiny in the British Army. As he travels from England to Ireland and across the Atlantic, he discovers a deeper conspiracy and learns that his old flame Helen is involved in ways he never imagined. Caught up in battles and intrigue, Jack must navigate a dangerous web of loyalties to complete his mission. Windrush - The City Of Dreadful Death: After being shipwrecked on the African coast, Major Jack Windrush and his wife Mary are caught up in a war between the Ashantis and the British colony of the Gold Coast. As Jack leads a company of soldiers, Mary works to help refugees in Cape Coast Castle. But as the conflict escalates, they both become deeply embroiled in the war, facing unimaginable sacrifices and impossible choices. Will they be able to survive the brutal conflict and make it out alive?

Illustrated guide for step-by-step beginning and advanced weaving. 424 pages; over 600 illustrations; indexed

Historical novel with the WW1 East African campaign as the background.

A picture book story about the triumph of hope, love, and determination, Coming to England is the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords. When she was ten years old, Floella Benjamin, along with her older sister and two younger brothers, set sail from Trinidad to London, to be reunited with the rest of their family. Alone on a huge ship for two weeks, then tumbled into a cold and unfriendly London, coming to England wasn't at all what Floella had expected. Coming to England is both deeply personal and universally relevant – Floella's experiences of moving home and making friends will resonate with young children, who will be inspired by her trademark optimism and joy. This is a true story with a powerful message: that courage and determination can always overcome adversity.

Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. First published in 1984 amid race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act, revealing how Africans, Asians, and their descendants had been erased from British history. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from the pioneering nurse and war hero Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of black presence in Britain. By rewriting black Britons into British history, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions, and cultural life, Staying Power presented a radical challenge to racist and nationalist agendas. This edition includes a new foreword by Gary Younge examining the book's continued significance in shaping black British identity today, alongside the now-classic introduction by Paul Gilroy.

This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as “the Windrush writers” in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated large-scale Caribbean migration to London. In critical accounts this group is typically reduced to the canonical troika of V. S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Sam Selvon, effectively treating these three authors as the tradition's founding fathers. These “founders” have been properly celebrated for producing a complex, anticolonial, nationalist literature. However, their canonization has obscured the great diversity of postwar Caribbean writers, producing an enduring but narrow definition of West Indian literature. Beyond Windrush stands out as the first book to reexamine and redefine the writing of this crucial era. Its fourteen original essays make clear that in the 1950s there was already a wide spectrum of West Indian men and women—Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, and white-creole—who were writing, publishing, and even painting. Many lived in the Caribbean and North America, rather than London. Moreover, these writers addressed subjects overlooked in the more conventionally conceived canon, including topics such as queer sexuality and the environment. This collection offers new readings of canonical authors (Lamming, Roger Mais, and Andrew Salkey); hitherto marginalized authors (Ismith Khan, Elma Napier, and John Hearne); and commonly ignored genres (memoir, short stories, and journalism).