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The Grand Paloma Resort

The Grand Paloma Resort
  • Author(s): Cleyvis Natera
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery

The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where the guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please–that is, until they are pushed to the brink.   Laura is a local...

The Heat of Havana

The Heat of Havana
  • Author(s): John Swallow
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

The Heat of Havana finds Detective Jussi Alonen settled down in Rauma once again. However, little does he know that a thrilling new adventure awaits him, one which will not only reconnect him with an old flame but also...

The Honeymoon Affair

The Honeymoon Affair
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The irresistible, utterly satisfying new contemporary novel from No. 1 bestselling Sheila O’Flanagan Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn’t after her fiancé broke her heart. She’s not looking for someone new. But when she meets Charles Miller,...

The House on Hummingbird Island

The House on Hummingbird Island
  • Author(s): Sam Angus
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

‘We’re going to a fine place,’ Idie told Homer to console him, ‘with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.’ Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey...

The Island of Forgetting

The Island of Forgetting
  • Author(s): Jasmine Sealy
  • Location(s): Barbados
  • Genre(s): Mythology
  • Era(s): 1960s-2019

In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a...

The Jumbies

The Jumbies
  • Author(s): Tracey Baptiste
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When eleven-year-old Corinne stumbles into the forest on her Caribbean island home, she rouses a jumbie–a malevolent spirit–who emerges to wreak havoc. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and use ancient magic to stop the jumbie...

The Lamorna Reach

The Lamorna Reach
  • Author(s): Joy V Sheridan
  • Location(s): West Indies, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 18th-19th Centuries

The Lamorna Reach presents a Zola-esque tableau of raw, elemental life in Cornwall at the time of the Napoleonic wars. Issy Penhalligan, the heroine, is incredibly beautiful and talented, but these qualities do not secure her a happy, comfortable...

The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes

The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Boston, Havana, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s to contemporary

A mysterious book with a legacy spanning from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day unites three women–and their secrets–in this unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton.   London, 2024: American expat...

The Love Position

The Love Position
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands, Corsham, England, Salisbury, Somerset
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Forbidden love has never looked so tempting… After making a ground-breaking discovery, archaeologist Sophia Hunter-Savage has her work stolen and her heart broken. She needs a safe place to lick her wounds, so retreats to her family home in...

The Mermaid of Black Conch

The Mermaid of Black Conch
  • Author(s): Monique Roffey
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

*Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2020* March 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a...

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