My new book

I am very pleased to announce the completion of my new novel – it is called The Long Song. The book will be published in February 2010 by Headline Review in the UK, and in early 2010 by Farrar Straus and Giroux in the US and Hamish Hamilton in Canada. I will post more details of these and any other editions as and when I have them.

Meanwhile, my novel Small Island continues to have a life of its own. Filming is now completed on the BBC1 Television adaptation of the novel. It stars Naomi Harris as Hortense, David Oyelowo as Gilbert, Ruth Wilson as Queenie, Benedict Cumberbatch as Bernard and Ashley Walters as Michael Roberts. It is scheduled to be broadcast in the UK in two 90 minute episodes in the autumn of 2009. So watch out for that.

My Books

Small Island

Fruit of the Lemon

Never far from nowhere

Every light in the house burnin'