Caribbean Bookshelf (March/April 1997)
Visitor’s Guide To The Windward Islands Don Philpott (Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston/Moorland Publishing Company, UK, 1996: ISBN...
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 1997)
Lilian’s Songs Cecil Gray (Lilibel Publications, 1996; ISBN 0–9681745–0–7) In these poems, more than ever, Cecil Gray focuses on...
Caribbean Bookshelf (January/February 1998)
FICTION One Bright Child Patricia Cumper (BlackAmber Books, UK, 1998: ISBN 1901969002) This is the first title from a new publisher...
Toussaint Triumph
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution C. L. R. James (Allison & Busby) That The Black...
Rosa’s Story
In 1994, when I was working in a hospital in Cuba, I got the opportunity to travel to Jamaica. At that time, people in Cuba were trying to...
Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 1998)
FICTION Faber Caribbean Series (Faber and Faber 1998) The British publishing house Faber and Faber has embarked on a major Caribbean...
Jean Rhys: The Madwoman in the Attic
The publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 was, almost literally, a return from the dead for its 76-year-old author, Jean Rhys. In the...
A House of One’s Own
Poor Mr Biswas. All the hero, or perhaps more accurately the anti-hero of V. S. Naipaul’s finest novel wants is his own house. Three...
