Tell no-one about this - Jacob Ross

This substantial collection brings together short stories written over a span of forty
years, including those first published in the
highly-rated
Song for Simone (1986) and
A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previously published pieces have been extensively revised. They range from stories set in
Grenada at different periods from the 1970s
onwards, to several set in the UK.
These are stories that have a narrative drive,
a meticulousness of construction, an
exactness of image and a rigorous
economy in the prose. They are inventive in
their explorations of a variety of narrative
voices - from children to adults, male and
female, Caribbean and British - that establish a persona and capture the reader from the first sentence.