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Escape to Havana

Escape to Havana
  • Author(s): Nick Wilkshire
  • Location(s): Havana, Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): current

For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life — if he survives it. With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is...

Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti

Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
  • Author(s): Amy Wilentz
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world. A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes,...

Fire Rush

Fire Rush
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Crooks
  • Location(s): Bristol, Jamaica, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

London, 1978. Yamaye, a woman in her 20s unsure of who she is, but with dreams of being a DJ and MC. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an...

Fireburn

Fireburn
  • Author(s): Apple Gidley
  • Location(s): US Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1878

The Danish-owned island of St Croix vibrates with passion and tension as Anna Clausen, a young Anglo-Danish woman returns to her childhood home after her mother’s death. Her heart sinks at what she finds on arrival. The unwelcome lust...

Five Guns Blazing

Five Guns Blazing
  • Author(s): Emma Rose Millar, Kevin Allen
  • Location(s): Barbados, Jamaica, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720

“Never had she imagined she would be brought so low, and all for the love of a very bad man.” 1710 Convict’s daughter, Laetitia Beedham, is set on an epic journey from the back streets of London, through transportation...

Five Liars

Five Liars
  • Author(s): D L Fisher
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The fraud. The imposter. The cheater. The fake. The murderer. Which one am I? The guest list for Brit and Joe’s joint bachelor-bachelorette weekend is small and exclusive: the bride, the groom, the best man, a work friend ....

For Such a Time as This

For Such a Time as This
  • Author(s): Shani Akilah
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

These are the people who sustain us through good times and bad. Meet Niah and her friends. They’re young, they’re smart, they’re part of a tight friendship group determined to make the most of every day. And their lives...

Fraud

Fraud
  • Author(s): N S Brooks
  • Location(s): London, British Virgin Islands, Scotland, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Two suspicious deaths lead Will and Jay Slater and their old adversary, Inspector Dawkin, into the murky world of big business and government corruption. With fraud at the heart of the case, and hunted by a dangerous assassin, the...

Freedom

Freedom
  • Author(s): Catherine Johnson
  • Location(s): Jamaica, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1783

An action-packed and pacey story about a boy’s experience of slavery in Britain. Nathaniel doesn’t want to move to England with his master’s family, leaving behind his mother and sister on the Jamaican plantation. But then he remembers what...

Grab a Snake by the Tail

Grab a Snake by the Tail
  • Author(s): Leonardo Padura, Peter Bush (Translator)
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Inspector Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when he’s asked to take the case by the beautiful Police Lieutenant Patricia Chion, he cant resist. Pedro Cuang...

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