Blogs in October 2025

Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti 3rd October 2025

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world. A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes,...

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The Dew Breaker 3rd October 2025

From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie...

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Born Under the Wrong Sun 15th June 2025

When French drummer, Marceau, disappears to his native island of Guadeloupe, his band ask Jessie, his girlfriend, to look for him. Although Jessie scours the island, he is nowhere to be found and her search reveals a very different...

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An Elusive Truth 5th December 2024

“Time is as elusive as truth,” barks Carrick, the hard-bitten News Editor and when Lucas, a young and ambitious journalist, finds himself disoriented by fear and lies in Haiti, Carrick’s words resonate. Sent to research promised elections, Lucas is...

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Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou 5th October 2024

Set amid Haiti’s worst security crisis in a century – foreshadowing the assassination of President Jovenel Moise – Haiti, Love and Murder in the Season of Soup Joumou blends history, culture, religion and superstition in a suspenseful story about...

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