The Connell Guide to Sam Selvon’s Lonely Londoners

“Selvon has been called ‘the father of black writing in Britain’. The Lonely Londoners marks a major point in the process of literary decolonisation, as the privileged form of the English novel came into contact with, and was given new shape by, post-colonial reality. With realism, humour and pathos, Selvon presents the escapades of many new London arrivals.” 

In this latest Connell Guide, Jon Mitropoulos-Monk expertly helms an in-depth exploration of Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the Windrush arrivals of the 1950s. Providing crucial insight and a comprehensive understanding of both the novel, and its cultural context.