This book explores how writers such as Amos Tutuola, George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, VS Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, and Wole Soyinka came to be published in London in important educational series such as the Three Crown Series and African Writers Series. Low takes account of recent debates in the discipline of book hi

Gail Low teaches contemporary writing and publishing in English at the University of Dundee. She has co-edited A Black British Canon? and is the author of White Skins/Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism (Routledge, 1996).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "The natural artist": Amos Tutuola or Faber and Faber's The Palm-Wine Drinkard? 2: "Profitable and politically expedient?": Oxford University Press and the Three Crowns Series 1962-76 3: "In pursuit of literary gold": HEB and the African Writers' Series 1962-67 4: The Pleasures of Exile: Publishing West Indian Writing in Postwar Britain 5: The Magic of Books: Authorship, Cultural and Symbolic Capital Notes Bibliography Index