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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...

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

How to Escape from a Leper Colony
  • Author(s): Tiphanie Yanique
  • 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...

Singles’ Holiday

Singles’ Holiday
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • 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...

Annie John

Annie John
  • Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid
  • Location(s): Antigua
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The island of Antigua is a magical place: growing up there should be a sojourn in paradise for young Annie John. But, as in the basket of green figs carried on her mother’s head, there is a snake hidden...

Land of Love and Drowning

Land of Love and Drowning
  • Author(s): Tiphanie Yanique
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

n the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck are two sisters and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain...

Spy Island

Spy Island
  • Author(s): Sophie Schiller
  • Location(s): St Thomas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

A Girl. A Deserter. An Island full of Spies. At the height of the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro arrives in the Danish West Indies to live with her Aunt Esther, a bad tempered spinster, and her houseful...

Swimming with the dead

Swimming with the dead
  • Author(s): Kathy Brandt
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Murder runs deep in this thrilling Underwater Investigation series featuring C.S.I. diver Hannah Sampson. Summoned to the sun-drenched beaches of the British Virgin Islands, Hannah Sampson is fully prepared to face unknowable dangers beneath the crystal-clear waters of an...

Winter In Paradise

Winter In Paradise
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand
  • Location(s): St John
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Irene Steele’s life is idyllic, until it is rocked by a late-night phone call that brings news of her husband’s sudden death. Even in the midst of her crippling grief, Irene cannot get one question out of her head:...

Death by Marriage

Death by Marriage
  • Author(s): Jaden Skye
  • Location(s): St Thomas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A well-known criminal lawyer is found dead in a back alley in St. Thomas, and Cindy and Mattheus are called in to investigate by the grieving widow. The local police have pinned her for the murder, and Cindy and...

Wicked Wives

Wicked Wives
  • Author(s): Anna Lou Weatherley
  • Location(s): Antigua, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A tale of intrigue, revenge and excess… When the ‘Blue Angel’ yacht is found abandoned off the coast of Antigua and Playboy and Casino owner, Tom Black, who was on board is pronounced missing, foul-play is suspected. After all,...

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