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- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1700s
It is two years since Thomas Kydd was spirited away in the night to serve his country aboard the old line-of-battle ship Duke William. Now, he and and the other members of the ill-fated Artemis are shipwrecked sailors, back...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post-WW2
A story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal from the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune out...
- Location(s): Antigua
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Antigua… the Caribbean at its most luscious, its most beautiful… silver sand, cobalt sky, warm turquoise sea… and a bunch of complete strangers, who only have one thing in common: they’re single. Some are looking for romance, some for...
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1640s onwards
In the late 1640s, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller
- Era(s): 2037
First came the darkness. Then the storm. Now it’s time to face the fire. Following a fighter jet crash in the Haitian hinterland, special agent Alex Lamarque is taken captive by a violent gang, the lone authority in this...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money – she was a favourite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lectora – and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Fiction
Are you yearning for a tropical paradise, coconuts and sea turtles to accompany daily life? Then this is it, Utopia, look no further…. David Seth Michaels’s magical, utopian novel The Dream Antilles explores desde Desdemona, a secret Caribbean island...
- Location(s): Nassau
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt thought she had escaped her turbulent past – but one night her peace is shattered when she chooses to help a man she finds stabbed in an alleyway. On the other side of Nassau, wealthy diplomat’s...
- Location(s): Guadeloupe
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
April 1990, Guadeloupe: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean department of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises – for example, the fact that...
- Location(s): Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Suriname
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient...
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