The Orchid House — end of an era
In 1953, a novel entitled The Orchid House was published by the reputable firm of Constable in London. It was a modest success, received...
Roseau, Dominica | Neighbourhood
History The earliest known community on this site, at the mouth of the Roseau River, was a Kalinago (or Carib) village called Sairi. Long...
Gardening in the tropics
Polly Pattullo’s “Gardening in the Tropics” is reproduced from Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan...
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 2006)
Unburnable: A Novel Marie-Elena John (Amistad, ISBN 0-06-083757-8, 292 pp) Unburnable is the first novel by young Antiguan writer...
Jean Rhys: voyager in the dark
On a cold spring day in 1847, Charlotte Brontë sits at her writing-desk in her father’s parsonage. She looks out of the window, across...
I Used to Live Here Once by Jean Rhys
She was standing by the river looking at the stepping stones and remembering each one. There was the round unsteady stone, the pointed one,...
Lennox Honychurch: Love for an Island
These green triangles of my destiny rise out of the boiling ocean vanish among the swirling vapours of the sky. Three-cornered crosses...
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...
