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One More Chance At Love

One More Chance At Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): St Lucia, Australia, Guatemala, Mallorca, San Francisco, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Thirty years ago, as teenagers, lawyer, Bobby McLean and travel writer, Sicora Clarke shared an intense love affair and had a happy future planned. But when Sicora ended it with no explanation and Bobby never heard from her again,...

One People

One People
  • Author(s): Guy Kennaway
  • Location(s): Cousins Cove
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Set in the village of Cousins Cove, Jamaica, One People plunges us into a small community where everyone knows everyone’s business, poverty is a way of life and dreams of escape trickle through fingers. Guy Kennaway’s comic novel –...

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Pre revolutionary Havana, where anything can be obtained by means. Greene skewers British Intelligence. James Wormold is a mild-mannered, marginal businessman and vacuum cleaner salesman, is approached by MI6 and is unwillingly recruited as “Our Man in Havana”. As...

Out from Nassau

Out from Nassau
  • Author(s): Fia B Scheyer
  • Location(s): Nassau
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Passiontide

Passiontide
  • Author(s): Monique Roffey
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island. As the...

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...

People to Follow

People to Follow
  • Author(s): Olivia Worley
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A reality show on a remote Caribbean island. Ten teen influencers. One dead body. Welcome to “In Real Life,” the hot new reality show that forces social media’s reigning kings and queens to unplug for three weeks and “go...

Pirate Queens

Pirate Queens
  • Author(s): Rebecca Alexandra Simon
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

The first full biography of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, 18th-century partners in crime who terrorized the Caribbean: “Excellent . . . informative and interesting.” —Model Shipwrights Between August and October 1720, two female pirates named Anne Bonny and Mary Read terrorized...

Queen of Bones (A Havana Mystery Book 2)

Queen of Bones (A Havana Mystery Book 2)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set between Cubas twenty years apart, Havana native Teresa Dovalpage’s new murder mystery explores lingering grudges between old friends and lovers separated by Castro’s final sanctioned raft exodus. Juan, a Cuban construction worker who has settled in Albuquerque, returns...

Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica

Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica
  • Author(s): Catherine Johnson
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1720, 18th century

How one woman masterminded slave resistance against the British in eighteenth-century Jamaica – the incredible true story of Queen Nanny and the Maroons. Part of the True Adventure series! 1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. High above the army camps...

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