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- 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): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this sweeping debut, Asha Bromfield takes readers to the heart of Jamaica, and into the soul of a girl coming to terms with her family, and herself, set against the backdrop of a hurricane. Tilla has spent her...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
In this memoir of adolescence in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of a sprawling family of civil servants explores the secret sense of exile that fuels her dreams of a new life in foreign place. Along the way she befriends...
- 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): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape brutal treatment. With fortune on her side, Kemosha befriends Ravenhide, a man with a...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’s Montego Bay might just be paradise. If people didn’t keep getting murdered. Detective Preddy hoped for a quiet start to the new year. But there’s a murder at...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’s Montego Bay might just be paradise. If people didn’t keep getting murdered. Detective Preddy has seen a lot of things in his time on the Montego Bay police...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present Day
BOOK 2 IN THE PREDDY AND HARRIS SERIES Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’s Montego Bay might just be paradise. If people didn’t keep getting murdered. The beautiful Caribbean Sea laps lazily against the...
- 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 –...
Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica
- 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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