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Adrift in the Gulf Stream

Adrift in the Gulf Stream
  • Author(s): Marvin Cook
  • Location(s): Straights of Florida, Caribbean, Cuba (Republic of), The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matey, a Cuban fugitive, escapes his captors, but is alone in the Gulf Stream. A sequel to Across Florida Straits, this book continues the story of Matvey, thief of antiquities and wanted for assault by Cuban authorities. His journey...

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation
  • Author(s): Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Caribbean, London, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A story about the triumph of hope, love, and determination, Coming to England is the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords. Follow ten-year-old...

Crick Crack, Monkey

Crick Crack, Monkey
  • Author(s): Merle Hodge
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tee is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice, so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.

Granny Ting Ting

Granny Ting Ting
  • Author(s): Patrice Lawrence
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A quirky family comedy set in the Caribbean from prize-winning author Patrice Lawrence. Shayla can’t wait to see her cousin Michael again. Last time, they had great fun chasing Granny’s chickens and playing hide-and-seek in the bamboo by the...

Green days by the river

Green days by the river
  • Author(s): Michael Anthony
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1950s

Another perceptive novel about a boy on the edge of adult responsibilities. It is the story of Shellie, a Trinidadian boy who moves to a new village and there meets two girls. He is charmed by Rosalie but he...

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts
  • Author(s): Kevin Jared Hosein
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air . . . On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in...

I ONLY MAKE LOVE IN MONTREAL

I ONLY MAKE LOVE IN MONTREAL
  • Author(s): Rabin Ramah
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1970's

This stunning debut collection of stories draws heavily on the author’s memories of growing up in Trinidad and explores themes of child abuse,family, faith, race,sexuality and otherness. In one story, a young boy experiences his first sign of love...

Love Forms

Love Forms
  • Author(s): Claire Adam
  • Location(s): England, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1980s

In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea...

Miguel Street

Miguel Street
  • Author(s): V S Naipaul
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1940s

Miguel Street is a collection of linked short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago. The stories draw on the author’s childhood memories of Port of Spain. The street of the title appears to be...

People and Peppers, a Romance

People and Peppers, a Romance
  • Author(s): Kelvin Christopher James
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Romance

Gossipy, intimate, and provocative, and set in Trinidad and New York City, “People and Peppers, a Romance” gives a diverting peek into the nuances of a Caribbean island’s callaloo of inter-racial and multicultural social mores. James’s main characters are...

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