‘a writer inspired by the idea and realities of Africa and the African diaspora, which he has explored in novels, short stories and travelogues, creating a unique body of work that deserves greater recognition’ MARGARET BUSBY on The Black and White Museum

‘confirms Ferdinand Dennis as a flâneur and urban philosopher exploring territory he first began to map in his now classic novels’ MAYA JAGGI, The Guardian, on The Black and White Museum

‘an elegant writer… who deftly weaves the tales of the diaspora into his work’ GARY YOUNGE, The Museum of Colour website

‘The skill the author brings to his portrayal of character is matched by the vivid realism with which he depicts place’ The Times, on The Last Blues Dance

‘a landmark in British fiction in capturing a breadth of diasporic experience and a moment in empire, its haunting mythologising of migration seeks to make of a bafflingly complex and often painful journey something luminous and redemptive’ The Guardian, on Duppy Conqueror

‘a history of the twentieth century, seen though Afro-Caribbean spectacles... hurtling energy… a pleasing change from the wilfully ponderous treatment of historical memory and diasporic identity in much contemporary postcolonial fiction’ THES,reprinted in Waterstones Magazine, on Duppy Conqueror

‘ambitious and compelling... packed to the brim with layers of symbolism, individual and cultural memories and fascinating historical stories. Reading it once won’t be enough’ RACHEL HALLIBURTON, The Independent, on Duppy Conqueror

‘faultless in his depiction of artefacts, customs, speech, and behaviour… his analyses of the internal motivations of his characters… are quite arresting... Some will read Dennis’s novel as a roman a clef, others as a contemporary version of Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom and Home to Harlem extended to Africa; but few will read it without admiration and considerable satisfaction ’ World Literature Today, on Duppy Conqueror