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Becoming Josephine

Becoming Josephine
  • Author(s): Heather Webb
  • Location(s): Martinique, Paris
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Rose Tascher is brought up in Martinique. At 15, she is married off to a Parisian aristocrat, who cannot stand her or her provincial ways. She divorces him, the French Revolution comes and her place, as Josephine, consort to...

Black Cake

Black Cake
  • Author(s): Charmaine Wilkerson
  • Location(s): Caribbean, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s

We can’t go to the island, Bryon. We don’t really know what we’re getting into . . .’ Eleanor Bennett won’t let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children – Byron...

Black Rock

Black Rock
  • Author(s): Amanda Smyth
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Celia’s mother died bringing her into the world – when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi’s second husband Roman, a man so...

Bonjour Blanc

Bonjour Blanc
  • Author(s): Ian Thomson
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

An enthralling journey into the shadowy republic of Haiti. In the land of Voodoo, zombies and the Tontons Macoute. In this classic account, history jostles with adventure, high comedy is touched with danger; and Haiti glows like a magic...

Cuba and the Night

Cuba and the Night
  • Author(s): Pico Iyer
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

This is the love story between an international photojournalist and a young Cuban woman, as seen through the photographer’s eyes, the complexities of a relationship in the broadest sense, and life in Cuba.

Dead Rich

Dead Rich
  • Author(s): G W Shaw
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Thriller

PARADISE CAN BE MURDER Super yachts are secretive, like their owners. Like castles, they are created to inspire awe. Like castles too, they are defended. They are an entire world, separate from the rest of us. Kai, a carefree...

Death under the Perseids (A Havana Mystery Book 4)

Death under the Perseids (A Havana Mystery Book 4)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa Dovalpage’s addictively clever new Havana mystery. Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize...

Dreaming in Cuban

Dreaming in Cuban
  • Author(s): Cristina Garcia
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s-1980s

Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980....

Haiti Noir

Haiti Noir
  • Author(s): Edwidge Danticat
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Haiti had a tragic history and continues to be on of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Here, however, editor Edwidge Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter...

Havana

Havana
  • Author(s): Stephen Hunter
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

A pacy thriller in 1950s Havana, drawing the reader into the complexities of Cuban life, and economic and political mele.

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