Introduction -- The natural artist: Amos Tutuola or Faber and Faber's the palm-wine drinkard? -- Profitable and politically expedient: Oxford University Press and the Three crowns series 1962-76 -- In pursuit of literary gold: HEB and the African writers' series 1962-67 -- The pleasures of exile: publishing West Indian writing in postwar Britain -- The magic of books: authorship, cultural and symbolic capital -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index