Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH Peacocks Dancing Sharon Maas (HarperCollins 2001, 485pp, ISBN 0-00-711737-X) Rita Maraj, our heroine, lives in a...
Beyond the beyond: the Shetland Islands
At the gate to the path leading up to Hermaness, there was a helpful sign explaining how to fend off a skua attack. The massive seabirds...
Word of mouth (November/December 2014)
King James version Nicholas Laughlin explains why a new novel by Jamaican writer Marlon James just might be the Caribbean book of the year...
Finding the centre in Mexico City
The huge slab of grey basalt sits on a narrow ledge that hardly seems able to support twenty-four tons of rock. On the face of the stone is...
The man with the butterfly tattoo
We chose a blustery morning to cross to the Îles du Salut. The Kourou River was choppy grey as the catamaran eased from the jetty and...
Ian McDonald: evening in the garden
Sitting in his Georgetown garden in the early evening, with little frogs singing from the shrubbery, Ian McDonald chuckles over stories of...
Maria Merian: the Caterpillar lover
In September 1699, after a two-month Atlantic crossing, a Dutch ship approached the north-eastern shoulder of South America. Skirting the...
San Andres: native island
The sky was flushed sunset-pink as we cruised down the hotel strip. Here, at the northern tip of San Andrés, gleaming multi-storey hotels...
