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Breathe: Stories from Cuba

Breathe: Stories from Cuba
  • Author(s): Leila Segal
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Breathe is a collection that explores the heart of Fidel Castro-era Cuba; an outsider’s look that is balanced by a weight of empathy to illuminate truths that lie couched between the island’s propaganda and the Western media’s portrayal. Characters...

Slow Train to Guantanamo

Slow Train to Guantanamo
  • Author(s): Peter Millar
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

It is an island more than 1000 kilometres long and was the sixth in the world (before its colonial master Spain) to have a national rail network. Cuba today feels like a nation at the end of a long,...

The Clearing

The Clearing
  • Author(s): Dan Newman
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

In 1976, four boys walked into a jungle. Only three came back alive. Haunted by terrifying childhood memories he doesn’t fully understand, journalist Nate Mason returns to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia where he grew up. Back then,...

A Family Holiday

A Family Holiday
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Antigua
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’ll do whatever it takes to keep this family together… As the nanny to four quirky but loveable children, Charlie French has learnt that if there was ever a cement shortage Weetabix would be a viable substitute and that...

A Meditation On Murder

A Meditation On Murder
  • Author(s): Robert Thorogood
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Set on the fictional island of Saint-Marie (not far from Guadeloupe) Enhance your enjoyment of the series as, for the first time, Robert Thorogood brings the characters to life on the page in an all-new locked-room mystery. Aslan Kennedy...

A Vineyard in Andalusia

A Vineyard in Andalusia
  • Author(s): María Dueñas
  • Location(s): Jerez, Cuba (Republic of), Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

1861. A ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from Mexico City to seek his fortune in the New World. Mauro Larrera has just four months to pay his creditors, or his bankruptcy will be revealed and his family’s honour will...

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba
  • Author(s): Heather Murray
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Among Friends: Travels in Cuba is a lively account of one person’s discovery of Cuba and Cubans over a decade-long series of visits. Murray falls in love with the country but never stops asking questions as her radius of...

Another Sun

Another Sun
  • Author(s): Timothy Williams
  • Location(s): Guadeloupe
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

On a plantation in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, a man’s body is found in a pond, riddled with bullets. The victim is Monsieur Calais, a wealthy land-owner; within 24 hours, a suspect is arrested. Anne Marie Laveaud, a...

Archipelago

Archipelago
  • Author(s): Monique Roffey
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The vulnerability of human beings subject to the vast forces of nature is a theme at the heart of this engrossing novel, which washes over the reader’s imagination with the force of a tidal wave as its protagonists embark...

Because We Are

Because We Are
  • Author(s): Ted Oswald
  • Location(s): Haiti, Port au Prince
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When a mother and her infant are murdered on the outskirts of Cité Soleil, Haiti’s most infamous slum, two unexpected detectives emerge: Libète, a brash and headstrong girl of ten, and her brilliant but impoverished friend Jak. Though made...

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