Description
Book SynopsisBorn in the UK in 1974 and raised in Ghana, Nii Parkes lives in Manchester. He has performed poetry in the UK, Europe, Ghana and the US and was a 2005 Associate Artist-in-Residence with BBC Radio 3. In 2007 he was writer-in-residence at California State University, and became one of the youngest living writers to be featured in the Poems on the Underground programme in London for his poem
Tin Roof.
Tail of the Bluebird is his first novel.
Trade ReviewA delightful book that combines the basic tug of the whodunit with the more elegant pleasures of the literary novel * Independent *
A lyrically beautiful tale * Arise *
A deeply complex novel; each character, every line entices the reader into feeling the beating heart of urban and rural Ghanaian lives... Parkes' steady, assured writing weaves a cosmological mystery that keeps you guessing to the very last page * Courttia Newland *
A brilliant new voice * Time Out *
A magical and engaging read -- Margaret Busby
