I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer [Hardcover]

`Grant has approached a well worn topic... in a lively and different way in I &I.'
`Ever alert to the island's adage that "there is no such thing as facts, only versions," he gives space to the ambiguities surrounding the Wailers' story without forcing conclusions, which bestows a rich sense of the mix of truth and fiction constantly at play in Jamaica.'
`The bigger picture is painted in rewardingly colourful, often revelatory detail.'
--Metro, review,

`Grant...is skilled at peeling away layers of history'
--The Observer,

`there are illuminating details and fresh revelations'
--Independent

`Grant has approached a well worn topic... in a lively and different wa...Ever alert to the island's adage that "there is no such thing as facts, only versions," he gives space to the ambiguities surrounding the Wailers' story without forcing conclusions, which bestows a rich sense of the mix of truth and fiction constantly at play in Jamaica...The bigger picture is painted in rewardingly colourful, often revelatory detail.' --Metro

`Grant...is skilled at peeling away layers of history' --The Observer, Neil

`A compelling read' --The Sunday Herald, Keith Bruce

`Grant is genial company and, born in Britain of Jamaican parents, he knows his stuff.' The book provides `a lively introduction to the life and times of the Wailers and, incidentally, to the neo-African religions and animist cults of beautiful, bedevilled Jamaica.' --Sunday Times, Ian Thomson,

`By the end, the three central characters, the force that they became together and the forces that drove them apart... are more vividly portrayed than in any previous biography. What's more, Grant's clear, concise book, as well as revealing the Wailers in the light of their own culture, helps us to see into the heart of Jamaica itself, through the lives of three of its sons' --Daily Telegraph, Seven

'in Grant's hands life in Trench Town in the 1960's is energetic and theatrical, rich in comedy and tragic irony........Grant's original and stylish second book........This brilliant book is nit just about Jamaica, but about ourselves, no longer the country of The King's Speech but a post imperial nation many whose citizens have a buried history. Read it a ,so for Grant's acute descriptions of its characters' --Guardian, Maggie Gee

'there are illuminating details and fresh revelations' --Independent, Margaret Busby

'Grant's clear, concise book, as well as revealing the Wailers in the light of their own culture, helps us to see into the heart of Jamaica itself, through the lives of three of its sons.' --Telegraph

'[A] vivid biography of the Rastafarian reggae artists the Wailers...this brilliant book is not just about Jamaica, but about ourselves, no longer the country of The King's Speech but a post-imperial nation many of whose citizens have a buried history of slavery.' --Guardian

'Joyfully literate and philosophically penetrating...it's spiritually bang on the money.' --Mojo

`The NS Recommends - `The myth-making that surrounds ht memory of Bob Marley has largely obscured the contribution of his fellow Wailers, Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later Bunny Wailer) and Peter Tosh. I and I restores these two to their rightful position' --New Statesman

`Sensitively conveyed by Colin Grant. The main merit of his perceptive work is that, by not making Marley its focus, it gets closer to the truth about him than most other biographers' `Colin Grant has composed a highly evocative and original account of a misunderstood group, and the misunderstood man at its core' --Literary Review

`...this intelligent study...offers something more than the usual story of rags-to-riches and ganja-fuelled Rasta-speak. This book is full of...insights and revelations' --TSL

The history of the original Wailers - Tosh, Livingstone and Marley - as never before told