New Releases by Mike Phillips

Taking all the best of the original Coping with Christmas this is a pocket-sized version of that title, condensed into 96 tiny pages.

Isn''t Christmas lovely? But what about the relatives from hell, the inexplicable presents and the endless games of charades? Instead of suffering, read the pre-Christmas diary of a turkey, uncover the real Father Christmas or discover where to hide when Auntie Doreen''s handing out sloppy kisses.

Broadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother retell the very human story of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants from the first wave of immigration fifty years ago to the present day.

The brutal murders of a young woman and her children on a London housing estate seem straightforward. Then a television researcher is stabbed to death. Black journalist-cum-sometime sleuth Sam Dean reluctantly investigates.

Notting Hill in the Sixties attempts to capture the exuberance and vivacity of the people in one of London's most famous neighbourhoods. Charlie Phillips, a former professional photographer with credits on Italian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Stern and Life, presents a pictorial documentary of the area of North Kensington which, from the fifties, became the spiritual home of Britain's Afro-Caribbean community. His pictures are both affectionate personal portraits of friends and neighbours, and a social commentary which evokes the flavour of the period and the locality. Phillips. Using short stories, anecdotes, poems and descriptive passages, he adds a verbal dimension to his namesakes's photographic journal.

Tells the story of three Black friends growing up in a poor neighborhood in South-central Los Angeles

Black journalist Sam Dean searches for the missing daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament, and the case soon leads him deep into a world of blackmail, racial prejudice, kidnapping, and murder

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