Boyd Tonkin is “blown away by” Jamaican writer Anthony C. Winkler.
“He never glosses over Jamaican deprivation, prejudice and violence, yet the love of language - and the language of love - somehow conquers all. It's almost as if PG Wodehouse had strolled into the world of Bob Marley. (Winkler, in fact, ghosted the autobiography of Marley's mother Cedella Booker, and joined her on a London tour where 'everywhere we went the acclaim for Mother Booker was ecstatic, and bordering on worship'.) Or as if a more salacious Alexander McCall Smith tangled with the younger, funnier VS Naipaul. But, truth be told, Winkler sounds like no one but himself.” – from “Anthony C. Winkler: a Playful Pirate of the Caribbean,” by Boyd Tonkin, The Independent