Yardie was published by Dotun Adebayo's X Press.
Yardie was the first novel by Jamaican-born British writer Victor Headley , published in London in 1992 by Dotun Adebayo 's X Press . Originally published by X Press , a two-man operation , the book was produced on a desktop computer and distributed through unusual channels : it was sold at clothing shops , hairdressers , and even on top of over-turned dumpsters outside of nightclubs .