A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, grows up in a small town on the coast of north Wales. From there she travels to Africa, the Caribbean and finally back to Wales. Sugar and Slate is a story of movement and dislocation in which there is a constant pull of to-ing and fro-ing, going away and coming back with always a sense of being ‘half home’. This is both a personal memoir and a story that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons. It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales and above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place.

In association with Planet Books, a new edition of this seminal book of Welsh literature with an introduction by Professor Hazel V. Carby.

Join author Charlotte Williams for a reading of the 2003 Wales Book of The Year at Palas Print in Caernarfon on the 10th of September.