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Saltblood

Saltblood
  • Author(s): Francesca De Tores
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Netherlands, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
  • Era(s): 17th Century

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary’s dual existence as...

Surviving Raine

Surviving Raine
  • Author(s): Shay Savage
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As the captain of a schooner catering to the elite on the Caribbean Seas, Sebastian Stark does his best to avoid any human encounters. Interacting with people isn’t his thing, and he prefers the company of a bottle of...

The Broken Places

The Broken Places
  • Author(s): Russell Franklin
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In 1931, Gregory Hemingway’s life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite son of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship. In...

The Cruise

The Cruise
  • Author(s): Caroline James
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Current

Three friends set sail on a luxury cruise… will they be able to catch a husband on the open seas? Leaving behind the heartache, guilt and disappointment of their real lives and suddenly single in their sixties, Kath, Jane...

The Cure

The Cure
  • Author(s): Eve Smith
  • Location(s): Oxford, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction
  • Era(s): Future

Living forever can be lethal… Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine...

The Gospel According to the New World

The Gospel According to the New World
  • Author(s): Maryse Condé
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: ‘A miracle!’ Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with grey-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of...

The Other Side of Paradise

The Other Side of Paradise
  • Author(s): Julia Cooke
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Change looms in Havana, Cuba’s capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliche, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years,...

What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You

What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
  • Author(s): Sharma Taylor
  • Location(s): Kingston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to...

Wild Fires

Wild Fires
  • Author(s): Sophie Jai
  • Location(s): Toronto, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The only things Cassandra knows about her family are the stories she’s heard in snatches over the years: about the aunt and cousin she never got to meet, about the man from the folded-up photograph in one of her...

Mrs Hemingway

Mrs Hemingway
  • Author(s): Naomi Wood
  • Location(s): Antibes, Cuba (Republic of), World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s-1960s

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are...

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