Book review: Augustown

KEI MILLER’s third novel invites us to Jamaica in 1982, to a poor suburb of Kingston called Augustown — which, the 2014 Forward poetry prize-winner assures in the preface, is a fictionalised version of t August Town.

Sat, 03 Sep, 2016 - 01:00

Review: Natalie Bowen

Kei Miller

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99;

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