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- 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...
- 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...
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): Guyana, West Indies
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of dances and dresses on her father’s sugar cane plantation. Life is sweet in the kingdom of sugar and Winnie along with her sister Johanna, have neither worries nor responsibilities, they are birds...
A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1975
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes...
- Location(s): Oxford, Jamaica
- Genre(s): Future, Fiction
- Era(s): Future
Living forever can be lethal… Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine...
What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
- Location(s): Kingston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to...
- Location(s): Toronto, Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
The only things Cassandra knows about her family are the stories she’s heard in snatches over the years: about the aunt and cousin she never got to meet, about the man from the folded-up photograph in one of her...
- Location(s): Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The vulnerability of human beings subject to the vast forces of nature is a theme at the heart of this engrossing novel, which washes over the reader’s imagination with the force of a tidal wave as its protagonists embark...
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