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In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica by Lennox Honychurch
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica's Maroons once controlled much of this wild and... -
Black Man Listen: The Life of JR Ralph Casimir by Kathy Casimir MacLean
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57JR Ralph Casimir (1898-1986) was a Pan-Africanist and poet from the Caribbean island of Dominica. This biography, lovingly written by his grand-daughter, explores his political and personal life, in... -
Dangerous Freedom by Lawrence Scott
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39This radical and moving historical novel weaves fact with fiction to reveal "the great deception" exercised by the powerful on a mixed race child born in the late 18th century and brought... -
Gone to Drift by Diana McCaulay
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.17Gone to Drift is an award-winning coming-of-age adventure story set in Jamaica. Life gets even tougher for Lloyd, a boy from a fishing village, when his grandfather goes missing at sea - 'gone to... -
Witchbroom by Lawrence Scott 9780993108686
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $17.07Witchbroom is a visionary history of a Caribbean Spanish/French Creole family and an island over four centuries to 20th-century independence. With an innovative tone and content, its carnival tales... -
Island Voices: From St Christopher & the Barracudas by Philip Nanton 9780957118768
Booksplease Price: $30.87Sixteen residents from the fantasy Caribbean island of St Christopher & the Barracudas describe their lives and preoccupations. Each characterisation, richly drawn in humour and melancholy, is... -
Riff: The Shake Keane Story by Philip Nanton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Riff explores the turbulent life of the Caribbean musician and poet Shake Keane (1927-97). A wanderer, he absorbed many of the themes of the 20th century - colonialism, migration and masculinity... -
The Snake King of the Kalinago by Atkinson School Dominica 9780953222469
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.81This delightful children's book - the first to be written by local children in Dominica - tells the story of the myth of the Kalinago snake called Bakwa. Like all myths it has changed down the... -
Most Wanted: Street Stories from the Caribbean by Christborne Shillingford 9780953222438
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.76"Crime writing with a harsh edge." - Nicholas Clee, The Guardian"An original and stimulating debut. The narratives are steeped in Caribbean storytelling traditions which Shillingord exploits to... -
Abraham's Treasure Joanne Skerrett 9780953222483
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $12.71"A moving coming of age story packed with tropical adventure." - Ros Asquith Teenage twins James and Jerome discover that treasure, buried during the days of slavery, is their rightful... -
Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return by Celia Sorhaindo
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98"Frankness and insight." New West India GuideWhat happens when people return to the land of their birth after decades away? The migrants' journey is a well-told story but much less is known about... -
Black and White Sands: A Bohemian Life in the Colonial Caribbean by Elma Napier
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39"A woman I won't forget ... a book that people will love." Diana Athill, Jean Rhys' publisher and award-winning biographer."My aunt's love of Dominica and its people is as freshly painted as if it... -
Guabancex by Celia A Sorhaindo 9781999776879
RRP: $13.65Booksplease Price: $11.24On 18 September 2017, a category 5 hurricane, the worst in recorded history, hit the Caribbean island of Dominica. Hurricane Maria destroyed lives and land. Nothing would be the same again... -
Look Back! by Trish Cooke 9780957118720
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.76Look Back! is a children's picture book written by the great team of Trish Cooke (words) and Caroline Binch (illustrations), both of whom are distinguished contributors to children's literature. A... -
It Falls into Place by P. Shand Allfrey 9780953222414
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57There is renewed interest in Phyllis Shand Allfrey, author (the Orchid House) and politician from Dominica. Allfrey died in 1986 - her poetry neglected and little known. Her work is now being... -
Good Night My Sweet Island by Petrea Honychurch Seaman 9781838041595
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.17Saying goodnight to all things we love on a tropical island. Animals, birds, fish, fruits and forests, drums and dances, the rivers and the rain, all get put to bed as the sun goes down in this... -
An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean Alison Donnell 9781739130312
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19An A-Z of Neglected Writers from the English-speaking Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region's rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of... -
The Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Allfrey 9780993108624
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family's plight in different ways - seeking change... -
Looking for Cazabon by Lawrence Scott 9781739130367
RRP: $23.10Booksplease Price: $17.41"A joy to read," says TS Eliot prize winner Roger Robinson. This first poetry collection by the award-winning Trinidadian novelist Lawrence Scott reflects on the paintings and places of of the... -
Renewal by Irvin Desir 9781919165004
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.17Much admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the poetry of the St Lucian poet Irvin Desir is published here for the first time. Often visionary, these poems contain such images as "fireflies heave... -
Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica Lennox Honychurch 9781739130329
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.77What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European adventurers who claimed to have "discovered" them? While in some parts of the region they were decimated within a... -
Leaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater by Lawrence Scott
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26This new collection of short stories from an award-winning writer explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion,... -
Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica by Adom Philogene-Heron
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.62Still Standing is a celebration of the vanishing vernacular architecture of Dominica. These small wooden homes, ingeniously crafted and carefully adapted to their environment, have survived... -
A Scream in the Shadows by Mac Donald Dixon
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57A crime story set in the rural Caribbean where traditional allegiances and a flawed criminal justice system provide a backdrop to the rape and murder of a young girl. When her father is accused of... -
Love for an Island: The Collected Poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.57There is renewed interest in Phyllis Shand Allfrey, author (the Orchid House) and politician from Dominica. Allfrey died in 1986 - her poetry neglected and little known. Her work is now being... -
The The Cocoa Dancer and Other Stories by Alwin Bully 9781838041564
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.20Set in the Caribbean - from Jamaica to Trinidad, Barbados to Dominica, the author's birthplace - this sparkling collection of stories from one of the Caribbean's foremost cultural activists is full... -
Home Home by Lisa Allen-Agostini
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.76A coming-of-age tale with a twist: a clinically depressed Trinidadian teenager, who has attempted suicide, is banished by her mother to Canada to live with her aunt. She feels lonely and in exile... -
The Art of White Roses by Viviana Prado-Nunez
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.17It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students... -
Your Time is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica 1813-1814 by Polly Pattullo 9780957118775
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War.Using the evidence to explain... -
Saint Lucian Writers and Writing: An Author Index: Published Works of Poetry, Prose, Drama by John Robert Lee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98This "magnificent act of scholarship" is a comprehensive author index of poetry, prose (fiction and non-fiction) and drama from the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. It also includes... -
Radical Normalisation by Celia Sorhaindo 9781800172395
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80Celia A Sorhaindo's engrossing debut, Radical Normalisation, writes back from the margins, bringing readers to her Dominican home. It adjusts perspectives on the universal questions about poetry as a...