Colonial Countryside Criticism breeding / Lilacs out of

breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land

and this’ – referring to an earlier edition of this book – ‘is the true body of his work’

The collection is in turn heartfelt

Karen Onojaife’s story is set in Charlecote Park where a once-favoured Black page finds himself cut adrift

Colonial Countryside Criticism breeding / Lilacs out ofColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each