Join us for a conversation with authors Amanda Smyth and Emily Zobel Marshall to discuss their books: Look at You by Amanda Smyth and the poetry collection, Other Wild by Emily Nobel Marshall, in collaboration with Peepal Tree Press.
The event will be held at Next Chapter Books, in the Corn Exchange, from 6.30pm - 7.45pm on Thursday 25th September.
Look at You is available now in store, for collection ahead of the event or on the night.
Other Wild is published on 2nd October 2025.
Look at You, Amanda Smyth
This powerful novel in stories follows its young narrator, growing up in a divided family. Shifting between Trinidad, England, and Ireland, she must learn to make sense of herself, and take her place in a world full of contradictions, cruelty and temptation.
Look At You grabs the attention elegantly, with sharp dialogue, acuteness of observation, and the joy of meeting complex characters. The frank and engaging narrator, recognising the independent otherness of the people she writes about, has an alert eye for moments of epiphany, absurdity, sadness and comedy.
Amanda Smyth is Irish Trinidadian, and author of three novels, Black Rock, A Kind of Eden, and most recently, Fortune, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Other Wild, Emily Zobel Marshall
These tender, lyrical poems learn from the natural world, through immersion and observation. Finding new ways to reflect, adapt and inhabit, they celebrate the ways our beings and bodies are inextricably entangled with the ever-changing landscapes and heartscapes of the dark woods, glittering rivers, windswept moors and towering mountains.
Emily Zobel Marshall is of French-Caribbean and British heritage and grew up in the mountains of Eryri in North Wales. She is a Professor in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University. She is an expert on the trickster figure in the folklore, oral cultures and literature of the African Diaspora and has published widely in these fields, including her books Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance (2012, University of the West Indies Press) and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit (2019, Rowman and Littlefield).
About Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press is an independent publisher of Caribbean and Black British writing. Its list includes the Caribbean Modern Classics series, fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles. Prize successes include the Costa Novel and Book of the Year Awards for The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey; the T.S. Eliot Prize, for Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise; the Casa de la Américas Literary Award; the Clarissa Luard Award for innovation in publishing;, the OCM Bocas Prizes for Caribbean Literature; and the inaugural Jhalak Prize. They also manage the operations of Hope Road and Small Axes, who celebrated the shortlisting of Small Boat for this year's International Booker Prize.
Join us for a conversation with authors Amanda Smyth and Emily Zobel Marshall to discuss their books: Look at You by Amanda Smyth and the poetry collection, Other Wild by Emily Nobel Marshall, in collaboration with Peepal Tree Press.
The event will be held at Next Chapter Books, in the Corn Exchange, from 6.30pm - 7.45pm on Thursday 25th September.
Look at You is available now in store, for collection ahead of the event or on the night.
Other Wild is published on 2nd October 2025.
Look at You, Amanda Smyth
This powerful novel in stories follows its young narrator, growing up in a divided family. Shifting between Trinidad, England, and Ireland, she must learn to make sense of herself, and take her place in a world full of contradictions, cruelty and temptation.
Look At You grabs the attention elegantly, with sharp dialogue, acuteness of observation, and the joy of meeting complex characters. The frank and engaging narrator, recognising the independent otherness of the people she writes about, has an alert eye for moments of epiphany, absurdity, sadness and comedy.
Amanda Smyth is Irish Trinidadian, and author of three novels, Black Rock, A Kind of Eden, and most recently, Fortune, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Other Wild, Emily Zobel Marshall
These tender, lyrical poems learn from the natural world, through immersion and observation. Finding new ways to reflect, adapt and inhabit, they celebrate the ways our beings and bodies are inextricably entangled with the ever-changing landscapes and heartscapes of the dark woods, glittering rivers, windswept moors and towering mountains.
Emily Zobel Marshall is of French-Caribbean and British heritage and grew up in the mountains of Eryri in North Wales. She is a Professor in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University. She is an expert on the trickster figure in the folklore, oral cultures and literature of the African Diaspora and has published widely in these fields, including her books Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance (2012, University of the West Indies Press) and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit (2019, Rowman and Littlefield).
About Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press is an independent publisher of Caribbean and Black British writing. Its list includes the Caribbean Modern Classics series, fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles. Prize successes include the Costa Novel and Book of the Year Awards for The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey; the T.S. Eliot Prize, for Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise; the Casa de la Américas Literary Award; the Clarissa Luard Award for innovation in publishing;, the OCM Bocas Prizes for Caribbean Literature; and the inaugural Jhalak Prize. They also manage the operations of Hope Road and Small Axes, who celebrated the shortlisting of Small Boat for this year's International Booker Prize.
Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to a named guest.
