Join Dr Velma McClymont as she discusses the importance of Black History Month; the black presence in London pre-20th century; Windrush children (who joined their parents in the 1960s); and her latest novel Little River.

Dr Velma McClymont is a writer, poet, scholar-activist, international speaker and the director/publisher of WomanzVue Books. She is a former lecturer in Caribbean Studies and has worked in banking, local government and as a visiting author in schools and libraries across the UK (including Scotland) and in Jamaica.

Her latest novel is Little River, a sweeping historical novel of a Scottish sugar baron and the Jamaica his life becomes enmeshed with. A Windrush child, Dr. McClymont, born in rural Jamaica, joined her parents in England in the late 1960’s. She grew up in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth where she attended a RC convent school.

To book a free place, please contact Central Library on 0207 884 5140 or email croydoncentrallibrary@croydon.gov.uk