Books by Alex Wheatle
Kemosha of the Caribbean
by Alex Wheatle
Historical fiction set in 1668, shortly after the buccaneers of the Caribbean were rebranded as privateers for the English crown. Kemosha is a teenage slave who gains her freedom and signs up as cook on board Henry Morgan’s ship for a raid on Porto Bello (in today’s Panama). On the whole Wheatle skilfully balances a modern heroine whom contemporary readers can relate to with a narrator who is convincingly grounded in her own time. The story also vividly brings to life 17th century Jamaica.
