The Dragon Can't Dance is an immersive canvas of shanty-town life, a Caribbean classic in which Lovelace's intimate knowledge of rural Trinidad is brilliantly brought to life.

'A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.' C. L. R. James

'First-class talent.' The Voice

Trinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill - poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn ­­- is home to a community of people who come together during the joyful yearly town Carnival, becoming larger-than-life versions of themselves. But when it ends, and the strains of day-to-day life grow large, what happens to the peoples' hopes, and the feeling that 'all o' we is one'?

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Dragon Can't Dance is a stunning, classic novel of the desire for identity and belonging, alongside the legacies of a colonial past.