Introduction

Marlon James was the first Jamaican to win the Booker Prize for a brief history of seven killings. Black Leopard Red Wolf was James's first novel in an ambitious epic fantasy, The Dark Star Trilogy. Moon Witch, Spider King is the second instalment and reversal of the point of view from the previous novel. This one brings centre stage the 700-year-old witch, Sogolon, a woman reclaiming her narrative.