Expats really live a nice life. Nice house uptown, nice SUV and lots of girls looking for visas. But were you reading Harper’s Magazine in 1861, things would’ve seemed a lot worse…

Through a succession of novels Andrea Levy has recounted the experience of Jamaicans in Britain stretching back to the days of the Empire Windrush, with her most acclaimed work, Small Island – now serialised on BBC television.
Her recently published novel, the Long Story, goes back further to an early 19th century slave plantation and the [...]

Photography by Peter Dean Rickards

Christopher Irons is a critic’s worst nightmare. Hailed by some as ‘a highly unorthodox talent’ he is the kind of artist whose work you instinctively recognise as great art though singing his praises could be as risky as wearing tight pants in Kingston.