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The Patriot

The Patriot
  • Author(s): Nick Thacker
  • Location(s): Puerto Rico
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“I can help you find the man who killed your wife.” It’s the last thing Jake Parker expects to hear from an old friend from his military days at West Point, Lt Colonel Douglas McDonnell. Officially, Jake’s wife Mel...

The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico

The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico
  • Author(s): Sarah McCoy
  • Location(s): Puerto Rico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. For eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, the struggle for independence is a...

The White Woman on the Green Bicyle

The White Woman on the Green Bicyle
  • Author(s): Monique Roffey
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her...

The Woman who lost her soul

The Woman who lost her soul
  • Author(s): Bob Shacochis
  • Location(s): Dubrovnik, Haiti, Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back

When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful and seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It’s the late 1990s, a time of brutal...

Three Trapped Tigers

Three Trapped Tigers
  • Author(s): Guillermo Cabrero Infante
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This novel is a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses. Centring on the recollections of a man separated from both is country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates an enchanting vision of life and the many colourful characters found...

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

This is the story of Harry Morgan, sometime fisherman, forced to turn his hand to other means of earning money. The end justifies the means, as he turns to smuggling. A tale evocatively rich in characters

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle
  • Author(s): Katie Agnew
  • Location(s): Saint Barthélemy (St Barts)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Ever dreamt of escape? That’s what Paradise promises: an ultra-exclusive hotel on the Caribbean island of St Barts. There, a retired actor from Hollywood’s golden age has brought together a glittering selection of guests. But why are they there…and...

What About Your Saucepans

What About Your Saucepans
  • Author(s): Lindsay de Feliz
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Lindsay de Feliz walked away from an enviable lifestyle – marriage, successful career, expensive holidays, designer clothes, fast cars – to pursue her dream of being a SCUBA diving instructor. She could not have predicted the journey ahead when...

When Life Gives You Mangoes

When Life Gives You Mangoes
  • Author(s): Kereen Getten
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives – at least, that’s how it seems. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with...

One Kiss in Havana

One Kiss in Havana
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Emma, Louise and Sophie are sisters. Talented, artistic and creative, they have a lot in common especially when it comes to men. When Emma receives two tickets to Cuba in the post from her late husband she is more...

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