Take My Word For ItRalph Thompsons memoir is a fascinating record of a long and full life lived jointly in the worlds of art, literature and business. From a pre war childhood in colonial Jamaica, Take My Word For It is full of rich insights into both the personal and Jamaica emerging into difficult modernity. Along with the businessman who conveys the excitement of commercial strategy and take over bids, there is also the artist and poet who has explored the inner

hell bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life forms

Winner of the Max Jacob International Poetry Prize

Following the Flame (2011)

via increasing rural and cultural devastation in Deslendário (1981) to a large Amazonian city

Nasser al-Dhaheri

introduced by Banipal’s consulting editor Mona Zaki

As well as his books from Salmon

It’s not just a book for sports fans

Love Letters & Children's Drawings

and eloquence

and reviews by him have appeared in the TLS

Of your lips and your mouth