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- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Former Inspector for the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko, is summoned to Cuba to identify a liquefying corpse, dragged from the oily waters of Havana Bay. Renko finds himself in a decaying country, the final recess of Communism – a...
- Location(s): Havana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2003
This author is known as Leonardo Padura Fuentes in Cuba. The story starts Havana, the year 2003 – 14 years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. Now an antique book trader,...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
The City of Silk is seething. The corrupt government has been ruling over the people too long and the city is becoming restless. Then one hot evening The Leader, a head of a group of rebels, gathers his followers...
How to Escape from a Leper Colony
- Location(s): US Virgin Islands
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Lyrical, lush and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set primarily in the US Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, HOW TO ESCAPE FROM A LEPER COLONY is ultimately a lovely portrait of a wholly...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Death in paradise: sea, sex and a sinister downward spiral on a Caribbean coast The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life on a remote...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 20th/21st Century
Island in the Sun: Escape to a tropical paradise in this epic story of hidden pasts and family secrets. When successful jewellery designer Isla Ashton unexpectedly inherits her eccentric Aunt Kate’s Caribbean island, she is obligated to return to...
- 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): Havana, Miami
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
El Comandante, an aging Castro-like dictator shambles about his mansion in Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers in one of his prisons, and grapples with the stale end of his life that is as devoid of grandeur...
- Location(s): The Bahamas, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s onwards
From the sugar-white sands of the Bahamas to Australia’s Coral Sea: Sunday Times bestseller Tasmina Perry travels the world and turns up the heat in her most spectacular novel yet… On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four...
- Location(s): Bristol, Havana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s and 2012
Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to...
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