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A house for Mr. Biswas

A house for Mr. Biswas
  • Author(s): V S Naipaul
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul’s father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve...

A Hundred Fires in Cuba

A Hundred Fires in Cuba
  • Author(s): John Thorndike
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

In the spring of 1956, a young American photographer falls in love with a Cuban line cook in New York. They have a ten-week affair which ends when Immigration arrests and deports him, and by then Clare Miller is...

A Shackled Inheritance

A Shackled Inheritance
  • Author(s): Madeleine McDonald
  • Location(s): Caribbean, West Indies
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Regency

She wanted to find her family, but would her sister steal her man? In Regency Scotland, Abigail Carrick takes slavery for granted, until her father’s will reveals she must share her inheritance with two unknown half-sisters, who are free...

A Small Place

A Small Place
  • Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid
  • Location(s): Antigua
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

‘If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see…’ So begins Jamaica Kincaid s powerful portrait of the damaged paradise that was her childhood home. The island of Antigua is a magical place of...

A Taste of Paradise

A Taste of Paradise
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to paradise on the island of St Lucia. Erin Howard has just joined The Palms Hotel as guest relations manager. She is determined to make her mark, and a deal with Daniel MacKenzie, the enigmatic CEO of the...

A Thief in the Village

A Thief in the Village
  • Author(s): James Berry
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Gustas is nearly killed in the hurricane, trying to save his banana tree; Nenna and her brother Man-Man patrol the cocnut plantation in the dead of night, ready to catch interlopers; Becky longs for a bicycle and Fanso longs...

A Trace of Sun

A Trace of Sun
  • Author(s): Pam Williams
  • Location(s): England, Grenada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘An unflinching look at one family’s experience of immigration, exploring mental health, identity and family’ Louise Hare ‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him...

A View of the Empire at Sunset

A View of the Empire at Sunset
  • Author(s): Caryl Phillips
  • Location(s): Dominica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

In the heart of London’s Bloomsbury, Gwendolen – not yet truly famous as the writer ‘Jean Rhys’ – is presented with the opportunity she has been waiting for. Her husband has received an unexpected inheritance; she can, at last,...

A Year On Land and Sea

A Year On Land and Sea
  • Author(s): Stephen Malins
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1995

Have you ever parachuted in the moonlight and juggled work with play? In 1995, Steve was trying to figure out how to take a degree in London, keep up with his military training, and learn to sail in spring...

Across the River

Across the River
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): Caribbean, England, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1700s, American Revolution

For her, he’d go to the ends of the earth. When she disappears, he might have to. In the English countryside in 1774, Caleb Haroldson and Rebecca Turrington are destined to be together. Stealing her inheritance to fund the...

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