Leaving by plane swimming back underwater and other stories - Lawrence Scott

These sensuous stories explore a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime.

One of Scott s earlier short stories won the Tom-Gallon Award and his novels, which include Light Falling on Bamboo (2012), have been long-listed for both the Whitbread Prize and the Booker Prize.