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Until August

Until August
  • Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERAAND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar....

Until I Met You

Until I Met You
  • Author(s): Amber Rose Gill
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance? It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime for Samantha: the launch of her travel blog, her best friend’s wedding and – hopefully – her own marriage proposal....

Voyager

Voyager
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Scotland, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1740s /1960s

Outlander 3 Jamie Fraser is lying on the battlefield of Culloden, where he rises wounded, to face execution or imprisonment. Either prospect pales beside the pain of loss – his wife is gone. Forever. But sometimes forever is shorter...

Waiting for the Waters to Rise

Waiting for the Waters to Rise
  • Author(s): Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox (translator)
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family. In May 2020, we published The Wondrous and Tragic...

Washington Black

Washington Black
  • Author(s): Esi Edugyan
  • Location(s): Barbados, Canada, London, Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Historical

When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black – an eleven year-old field slave – finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde is a...

What Noise Against the Cane

What Noise Against the Cane
  • Author(s): Desiree C Bailey
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Poetry

The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C....

When We Left Cuba

When We Left Cuba
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana,a Reese Witherspoon Book Club...

When We Were Birds

When We Were Birds
  • Author(s): Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the...

Where the Rhythm Takes You

Where the Rhythm Takes You
  • Author(s): Sarah Dass
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Where the Rhythm Takes You is a romantic, mesmerizing novel of first love and second chances. Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family’s gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago....

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Author(s): Jean Rhys
  • Location(s): Dominica, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1830s

A prequel to Jane Eyre, telling the story of the Creole heiress Antoinette, the “mad woman in the attic”. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn...

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