Minty Alley is a groundbreaking novel written by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James in the late 1920s, and published by Secker & Warburg in 1936, as West Indian literature was starting to flourish. It was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in England. A dramatisation of Minty Alley, by Margaret Busby and produced by Pam Fraser Solomon (with a cast that included Geff Francis, Vivienne Rochester and Burt Caesar), was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998, winning a Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) "Race in the Media Award" in 1999.