Music for the off-key - Courttia Newland

Drawing inspirationfromeverything from traditional horror movies to the sophistication ofcontemporaryJapanese short-story styles, the literary and the popularmergeseamlesslyin this uniquely black British mix. This collection meticulously and insightfullyobserves West London's black communities?from patterns of speech, fashions,and pleasuresto the pressures of racism and exclusion they seek to escape. Delighting in the dark, the grotesque, and the uncanny, these entertaining,genre-smashingstories provocatively reject the implicitly territorial limitsplaced on blackBritish writing, andare followed byan afterwordin whichthe authorwrites of his frustration with the narrow limits imposed on black British fiction by mainstream publishing expectations.