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Telex From Cuba

Telex From Cuba
  • Author(s): Rachel Kushner
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in Cuba just before Castro’s revolution, the novel tells the story of expatriates, most of whom work for the United Fruit Company. It is a coming of age story of two young people in the American colony in...

Ten Steps from the Hotel Inglaterra

Ten Steps from the Hotel Inglaterra
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Era(s): Modern

A romantic travel adventure in Cuba. Charlie is a great character

That Birthday in Barbados

That Birthday in Barbados
  • Author(s): Inglath Cooper
  • Location(s): Barbados
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Future, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What is it about turning forty that makes a woman take a look at where she’s been and where she’s going? For ActivGirl CEO Catherine Camilleri, it is a crossroads that has her wondering where she went off course....

The Animal Lighthouse

The Animal Lighthouse
  • Author(s): Anthony Burt, Ciara Flood (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Brought up by a wonderful group of animals on a hidden island somewhere deep in the Caribbean, Jim knows no other life or who his real parents are. He washed up on the island as a baby in a...

The Backpacking Housewife – The Next Adventure (Book 2)

The Backpacking Housewife – The Next Adventure (Book 2)
  • Author(s): Janice Horton
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Romance, Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say home is really where the heart is… Lori Anderson should be bursting with happiness. Since leaving behind her life as a housewife to embark on an incredible backpacking adventure she’s met a man she’s fallen head over...

The Beach House

The Beach House
  • Author(s): P R Black
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This vacation is about to turn deadly…   Cora’s on the island vacation of her dreams: a private beach in paradise, a romantic proposal, and an eight-figure cheque following the sale of her new fiancé’s business. When their island...

The Bone Readers

The Bone Readers
  • Author(s): Jacob Ross
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . . After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael ‘Digger’ Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad,...

The Book of Havana (Reading the City)

The Book of Havana (Reading the City)
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into...

The Book of Night Women

The Book of Night Women
  • Author(s): Marlon James
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th century

This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women – a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt...

The Bread the Devil Knead

The Bread the Devil Knead
  • Author(s): Lisa Allen-Agostini
  • Location(s): Port au Prince
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she’s covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with...

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