Night Calypso (40 page)
Authors: Lawrence Scott
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L
AWRENCE
S
COTT
is from Trinidad and Tobago. His previous works include the acclaimed novel
Witchbroom; Ballad for the New
World
, which contains the award-winning short story ‘The House of Funerals’;
Aelred’s Sin
, winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book; and the much-praised
Night Calypso
, shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2006. Scott’s stories have been read on BBC Radio 4. He regularly moves between London and Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, and combines writing with teaching literature and creative writing.
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First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2004.
This ebook edition first published in 2014.
Copyright © 2004 by L
AWRENCE
S
COTT
The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–0–7490–1757–6