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- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
John Deal has spent many years trying to reinstigate the building company, which his Father ran into the ground. He is offered a project in Havana but it is not what he anticipates: the prospect of a jail break....
- 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...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
Two middle aged ladies from Canada on vacation in Cuba: more than a discovery of country and people this becomes a journey back in time and history reviving long lost memories of the past. Their daily observations reach from...
- Location(s): Puerto Rico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
- Era(s): Contemporary
For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe’s grandmother’s refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo’s...
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy, the...
How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it’s the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings...
- Location(s): Jamaica, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret – Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection of short stories, How to Love a Jamaican, about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping...
- 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...
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