Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fenwomen | 1977 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 2 | Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers | 1988 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 3 | Growing Up in Lambeth | 1989 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 4 | Narratives of Exile and Return | 1997 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 5 | Narrative and Genre | 1997 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 6 | Caribbean Migration: Globalized Identities | 1998 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 7 | Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience | 2006 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 8 | Old Wives’ Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells | 2010 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
| 9 | Empire and Nation-building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937-66 | 2010 | Mary Chamberlain | Buy |
Mary Chamberlain’s non-fiction career began with Fenwomen (1977), an oral history of women living in the English Fens, and continued through decades of academic work on migration, identity, and the Caribbean diaspora. Growing Up in Lambeth (1989) documented working-class life in South London, while Narratives of Exile and Return (1997) and Caribbean Migration (1998) examined the experiences of Caribbean migrants in Britain.
Her later non-fiction includes Family Love in the Diaspora (2006) and Empire and Nation-building in the Caribbean (2010), both grounded in oral testimony and archival research. Old Wives’ Tales (2010) takes a lighter approach, surveying the history of folk remedies, charms, and home cures.