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Related booklists: Caribbean, Fiction - Black British Writers, World Fiction - Cuba, World Fiction - Jamaica, World Fiction - Trinidad, World Fiction - Saint Lucia,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Salt Crystals by Cristina Bendek
    Salt Crystals - by Cristina Bendek

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913867331 | ISBN 10: 1913867331

    Translated by Robin Myers  San Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab trade ... more

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  • Cover image of book How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
    How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - by Cherie Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472268792 | ISBN 10: 1472268792

    Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021   In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers.  For Wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Waiting For The Waters To Rise by Maryse Conde
    Waiting For The Waters To Rise - by Maryse Conde

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912987153 | ISBN 10: 1912987155

    Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he's carried with him since his ar ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans by Nicholas Laughlin (Editor)
    So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans - by Nicholas Laughlin (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846592072 | ISBN 10: 1846592070

    So Many Islands breaks out bold new writing from the distant shores of countries in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific oceans. Here you will find poems about revolution and protest. You will be transported to Marakei, ‘the women’s i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
    Falling in Love with Hominids - by Nalo Hopkinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781616961985 | ISBN 10: 1616961988

    Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American fiction. She has been dubbed “one of our most important writers,” (Junot Diaz), with “an imagination that most of us wou ... more

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  • Cover image of book John Crow
    John Crow's Devil - by Marlon James

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780748498 | ISBN 10: 1780748493

    With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, this stunning debut is set in James’s native Jamaica.   On a day beginning with a bad omen - black vultures, locally called John Crows ... more

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  • Cover image of book Savage Seasons by Kettly Mars, translated by Jeanine Herman. Afterword by Madison Smartt Bell
    Savage Seasons - by Kettly Mars, translated by Jeanine Herman. Afterword by Madison Smartt Bell

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780803271487 | ISBN 10: 0803271484

    Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Children of Paradise by Fred D
    Children of Paradise - by Fred D'Aguiar

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847088628 | ISBN 10: 1847088627

    In the opening pages of this novel, an accident brings a young girl to the attention of the Preacher, the all-powerful leader of a religious cult secluded in the jungle. Trina has only dim memories of the life she lived with her mother before they jo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
    Island Beneath the Sea - by Isabel Allende

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007348657 | ISBN 10: 0007348657

    From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny ... more

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  • Cover image of book Haiti Noir by Edwidge Danticat (Editor)
    Haiti Noir - by Edwidge Danticat (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781936070657 | ISBN 10: 1936070650

    Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating earthquake.  Featuring brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Elo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
    The White Woman on the Green Bicycle - by Monique Roffey

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847395221 | ISBN 10: 1847395228

    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 only solace is h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bivouac by Kwame Dawes
    Bivouac - by Kwame Dawes

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845231057 | ISBN 10: 1845231058

    When his father dies in suspicious circumstances, Ferron Morgan’s trauma is increased by the conflict within his family and his father’s friends over whether the death is the result of medical negligence or a political assassination. Ferron has lived ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
    Wide Sargasso Sea - by Jean Rhys

    £7.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141185422 | ISBN 10: 0141185422

    In her brilliant novel, Jean Rhys rescues the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and brings her to life as the beautiful and tragic Antoinette Cosway.  The story takes us to Antoinette's beguiling Caribbean island, a lush and rav ... more

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