CARLEIGH FRANKLIN was beside herself when her name was called as the grand prize winner of a trip for two to Jamaica in the Union of Jamaican Alumni Associations (UJAA) essay competition last year while a student at The Westminster Schools in.
From the paintings of Paula Rego to a Jamaican American childhood, the six novelists up for the UK’s most prestigious fiction prize share the inspirations behind their nominated books – and how they got them onto the page
Homes and buildings were destroyed and some structures were swaying after a 5.4 to 5.6-magnitude earthquake in Jamaica rocked Buff Bay, a tourist spot within the island nation’s Portland parish,