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- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Celia’s mother died bringing her into the world – when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi’s second husband Roman, a man so...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
The City of Silk is seething. The corrupt government has been ruling over the people too long and the city is becoming restless. Then one hot evening The Leader, a head of a group of rebels, gathers his followers...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1957
In the village of Gibbeah where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two...
- Location(s): The Bahamas, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
From the sugar-white sands of the Bahamas to Australia’s Coral Sea: Sunday Times bestseller Tasmina Perry travels the world and turns up the heat in her most spectacular novel yet… On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1800s
Trinidad, 1865. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to be at his beloved mother s deathbed. Life on the island seems very different after the freedoms of post-Revolutionary Paris, where his paintings have hung in the Louvre. Despite the Emancipation...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1830s
Jerome is a slave. He must wake up every morning knowing that he belongs to plantation owner Alfred Campbell. But things are changing with talk of abolition. He has fallen in love with Anita, Alfred’s daughter, and he must...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post-WW2
A story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal from the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune out...
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1640s onwards
In the late 1640s, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation...
- Location(s): Nassau
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt thought she had escaped her turbulent past – but one night her peace is shattered when she chooses to help a man she finds stabbed in an alleyway. On the other side of Nassau, wealthy diplomat’s...
- Location(s): Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Suriname
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient...
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