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No Land, No Mother

Kampta Karran, Lynne Macedo

• Paperback | Engels
• The essays in this collection focus on the rich dialogue carried out in David Dabydeen's critically acclaimed body of writing. Dialogue across diversi... Lees meer

Perfected Fables Now

Gordon Rohlehr

• Paperback | Engels
• Since the mid-1960s, Gordon Rohlehr has been an incomparable recorder and analyser of Caribbean literature and culture and their intersection with his... Lees meer

The Last Ship

Jan Lowe Shinebourne

• Paperback | Engels
• For Joan Wong, growing up in a Chinese family in the political turmoil of 1960s Guyana, family history is never straightforward. There are the example... Lees meer

Other Leopards

Denis Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Caribbean Modern Classics
• Lionel Froad is a Guyanese who works as a draftsman on an archeological survey in the mythical Jokhara in the horn of Africa. There he hopes to redisc... Lees meer

She Who Sleeps with Bones

Tanya Shirley

• Paperback | Engels
• She Who Sleeps With Bones was named a 2009 Jamaican bestseller in Jamaica Gleaner 'Local books did it big in 09'. In Tanya Shirley's She Who Sleeps Wi... Lees meer

The Face of Water

Shara McCallum

• Paperback | Engels
• "This is a marvellous collection filled with a lovely and evocative music. Highly recommended." Library Review Since the publication of her first coll... Lees meer

The Frequency of Magic

Anthony Joseph

• Paperback | Engels
• Raphael earns his living as a butcher in a hillside village in rural Trinidad. He is also a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions ... Lees meer

Dub Wise

Geoffrey Philp

• Paperback | Engels
• "Without losing the joy of play or the play of the rhythms, Dub Wise celebrates the burdens and delights of love, friendships and the responsibility o... Lees meer

Disappearance

David Dabydeen

• Paperback | Engels
• Dunsmere Cliff on the Kent coast is in a state of impending collapse. A young West Indian engineer is appointed to help save the village that sits on ... Lees meer

The Go-Away Bird

Seni Seneviratne

• Paperback | Engels
• In her fourth collection, Seni Seneviratne extends her reputation as a fine poet whose incisive social, ecological and political concerns are matched ... Lees meer

The Naipauls of Nepaul Street

Savi Nepaul Akal

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a moving story of a family's beginnings, growth and, in the context both of time and Trinidadian society, its inevitable dispersal. Savi Naipa... Lees meer

The Gift of the Holy Cross

Lino Leitoa

• Paperback | Engels
• Leitão's novel brings alive the vanished world of colonial Goa, a hybrid creation of Portuguese Catholicism and the Hindu caste system. From its begin... Lees meer

Episodes in My Life: The Autobiography of Jan Carew

Jan Carew

• Paperback | Engels
• Towards the end of a long and astonishingly full life, whose scope and variety most of us can only dream about, Jan Carew began writing his memoirs. W... Lees meer

American Fall

Raymond Ramcharitar

• Paperback | Engels
• Raymond Ramcharitar's sophisticated and formally ambitious poems have Trinidad as their centre but are global in scope. This is reflected both in thei... Lees meer

Chameleon

Jane Bryce

• Paperback | Engels
• When a young white child discovers why her family's African gardener so dislikes the chameleon she spots in a tree, she is plunged into a puzzled awar... Lees meer

The Godmother and Other Stories

Jan Lowe Shinebourne

• Paperback | Engels
• Covering more than four decades in the lives of Guyanese at home or in Britain and Canada, these stories have an intensive and rewarding inner focus o... Lees meer

The Merchant of Feathers

Tanya Shirley

• Paperback | Engels | Caribbean Modern Classics
• In her second collection of poetry, author Tanya Shirley uses a mixture of acute observation, outrage, and outrageousness to present stories that have... Lees meer

Glimpse

• Paperback | Engels | Inscribe
• This anthology creates a dichotomy between the comfortable and the mysterious, providing a glimpse into hidden worlds and human nature; tantalizing in... Lees meer

Absence of Ruins, an PB

Orlando Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Caribbean Modern Classics
• An Absence of Ruins was originally published in 1967, a period of decolonising ferment in Jamaica. This important and much sought-after Caribbean clas... Lees meer

Bowling Was Superfine, the PB

Stewart Brown, Ian McDonald

• Paperback | Engels
• Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald present a multi-faceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricke... Lees meer

The Language of Eldorado

Mark McWatt

• Paperback | Engels
• Winner of the Guyana Prize, The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry. Its beauty lies in its abili... Lees meer

Fauna

Jacqueline Bishop

• Paperback | Engels
• Fauna is not just a collection of individually rewarding poems but a carefully structured whole. Using metaphors drawn from the fauna and flora of Jam... Lees meer

Seduce

Desiree Reynolds

• Paperback | Engels
• Word has spread that Seduce is dead, and mourners gather for her wake. But with Seduce in her coffin, her memories and consciousness of those around h... Lees meer

The Repenters

Kevin Jared Hosein

• Paperback | Engels
• The story of a Trinidadian orphan, who falls in love with a nun, gets adopted by a thief and must make a nest in the expanse of madness around him. Lees meer