The Black and White Museum
From Ferdinand Dennis, the critically acclaimed author of the novel Duppy Conqueror, comes The Black and White Museum, a collection of both highly personal and universal short stories. These at their heart reveal the emotional drama of faded love, the loss of individual and shared memory and the wistful longing for home. His stories powerfully portray the black presence in post-Windrush London, with its hurtling gentrification and everyday racism. Ferdinand’s characters gain wisdom and maturity with age but become powerless, as they are less able to change the course of their lives. For some there is the temptation of a return “home” but home, like London, has also moved on and is not the paradise of their memories.
Price
£9.99
Author(s)
Ferdinand Dennis
ISBN number
9781913109837
Price
£9.99
Publication date
12 Feb 2021
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Ferdinand Dennis author photo © Thomas Stewart

Ferdinand Dennis

Ferdinand Dennis was born in 1956 in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1964, he came to London where he grew up. He has taught creative writing and is the author of the novels, The Sleepless Summer and The Last Blues Dance. His non-fiction includes Back to Africa: A Journey and Behind the Frontlines; Journey into Afro-Britain for which he was awarded the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize. Ferdinand Dennis lives in North London.
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