TanYah Global Releases ‘The Gully Side Book Series,’ Bringing Jamaican Culture and Community Stories to Fiction

MACON, GA, UNITED STATES, November 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Jamaican author, educator, and youth development specialist TanYah Global is launching Part One of ‘The Gully Side Book Series‘ in November 2026. The contemporary Jamaican fiction series consists of ten interconnected novels exploring community, family, relationships, power, faith, migration, social inequality, and survival. Books 1 through 5 form Part One, while Books 6 through 10 are scheduled for February 2027.

Availability

‘The Gully Side Book Series’ is sold directly through the official series website https://gullysidebookseries.online/

Five Stories Build One Jamaican Community

The first five novels take readers from Jamaican community life to the experiences of Jamaicans living in Brooklyn. Each story can be read independently, while recurring characters and connected experiences gradually create a broader portrait of Gully Side.
‘Gully Side: A Big Yard, A So It Guh?’ follows a family discovering how difficult privacy can become when living in a close community. ‘One Don: Mi Nuh Business’ examines Damion’s journey toward becoming a powerful community Don and the influence of politics, money, loyalty, and responsibility.
‘Hot Wuk: Who Feel It Knows It’ centers on Poochie as she faces motherhood, judgment, relationships, and personal ambition. ‘Bun Gad: Whose God?’ explores faith, religious authority, morality, and responsibility when community secrets emerge. ‘Farrin Life, Farrin Lies: Tek Time’ moves to Brooklyn, examining migration, work, cultural identity, financial pressures, family relationships, and the realities of building a life abroad.

Stories Shaped by Jamaican Culture and Social Experience

The series draws upon subjects familiar across Jamaican music, comedy, popular culture, and everyday conversation. TanYah Global uses fiction to examine the people and circumstances behind those subjects, bringing together humor, gossip, intimacy, conflict, difficult choices, and social observation. Her nearly thirty years of experience working with young people, families, and communities has helped her craft the stories. The novels explore how individuals respond to poverty, ambition, relationships, authority, social expectations, migration, and the desire to belong.
“You don’t have to be Jamaican to recognise somebody in the yard,” said TanYah Global, author of ‘The Gully Side Book Series.’ “These books make room for their humour, tenderness, ambition, and difficult choices.”
Part Two arrives in February 2027 with five additional interconnected novels: ‘SQUADY,’ ‘Jerry the Hyper G,’ ‘Night Nurse,’ ‘Rum Bar,’ and ‘Last Stop.’ Together, the two parts form a ten-book collection centered on one evolving community and the lives within it.
Readers can learn more about ‘The Gully Side Book Series’ and purchase Gully Side Part One on the official series website. More information about TanYah Global and her other literary projects is available at TanYah Global. Here is a recent article published about the book.

About the Author

TanYah Global is a Jamaican author, educator, and youth development specialist. With nearly thirty years of experience working with young people, families, and communities, her writing combines cultural observation, emotional complexity, humor, and socially conscious storytelling. Her work spans contemporary Jamaican fiction, psychological thrillers, supernatural young adult fiction, and literature for children and young people.

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