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- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Recent
ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Azúcar (sugar) is a novel about belonging in a world where all things are on the move: people, ideas, foods and not least music. Oswald Kole Osabutey Jnr, henceforth Yunior, leaves his family in Accra to travel to the...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks...
Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti
- Location(s): Haiti
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 2010
Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go is the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, though they lose the woman who raised them, Manman. They must fend for themselves in...
Island on the Edge of the World
- Location(s): Haiti, Port au Prince
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Haiti. A poor country rich in courage, strength and love. As these four women are about to discover. Charlie, the rootless daughter of American missionaries, now working as a hairdresser in Northern California. But the repercussions of a traumatic...
- Location(s): Essex, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s/1980s
Hannah Lowe’s father Chick, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family; except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of East London to win...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their marvellous lodger, Mr Chetan, form an unconventional household, happy in their differences, as they build a home...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1958 onwards
Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest – until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate...
Plunge – One Woman’s Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary
- Location(s): United States (USA), Caribbean, The Bahamas, The South Seas
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present
Tropical waters turn tumultuous in this travel memoir as a free-spirited woman jumps headfirst into a sailing adventure with a new man and his two dogs. Join Liesbet as she faces a decision that sends her into a whirlwind...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1830s
We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to us, those names on our lips. Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. These are...
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