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- Location(s): Jamaica, Prague, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 15th Century and modern
Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun – literally. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation. And – what hurts most – he knows the story which ruined...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1830s
The story of planters and slaves. A vivid portrayal of Jamaican slave society, charting daily lives right up to Freedom and a denouement of shocking proportions.
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose – sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. When their ship is captured by pirates,...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Culture, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the stones of her home begin to rattle and call out to her in the quiet of the night, Pauline Sinclair knows she will not live to see her 100th birthday. From educating herself through stolen books to...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
- Era(s): 1760
Nobody free till everybody free. Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
With her guardian planning to remarry, 20-year-old Phoebe Dymond finds she is no longer welcome in his Falmouth home and is soon hustled aboard the packet ship Providence bound for Jamaica and an arranged marriage. A skilled herbalist and...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Montego Bay
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to...
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