Books and Writers articles
Looking For Lost Boys: Caryl Phillips and Robert Antoni Two leading writers discuss their search for the stories of young outcasts, haunted by history. Caryl Phillips, previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has returned with new novel The Lost Child. A response to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, it tells the story of a young […]
A Strange Mother – a harrowing tale of parental child abduction “My mother made a decision that would change my life. I was never to see my dad or know him. She decided to emigrate to the Caribbean with me at the age of two years, unannounced, with no finances or place to live. Her […]
Dancing Nude in the Moonlight: 10th Anniversary Edition Dancing Nude in the Moonlight, first published in 2004, announces new 10th anniversary edition and other writings published by Insomniac Press. A selected poems and stories from Joanne C. Hillhouse. Young Dominican single mother Selena Cruz is trying to make a new life for herself in Antigua, […]
Bamboo & Fern: Jamaican ‘Corporate Queen’s’ Awe-Inspiring Biography Empowers Women to Triumph over Adversity Ava Brown’s life story is one of true perseverance and survival. In her new biography, ‘Bamboo & Fern’, Brown recounts her remarkable transition from street-selling Jamaican pauper to MBA Global Business Development Manager. By releasing her story to the world, Brown […]
Award Winning Young Adult Novel Musical Youth to be Distributed Throughout the Caribbean Teen readers in the Caribbean and the world will have one more book to read this week when the award-winning Musical Youth by Antiguan and Barbudan author Joanne C. Hillhouse is released. The book, which placed second in the 2014 Burt Award […]