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An island in the Caribbean. A centuries-old secret. A life adventure awaits. . . Discover the latest tale of friendship, courage and romance from the Sunday Times bestselling romance writer.'The queen of uplifting, feel good romance.' AJ Pearce'An immersive, uplifting read that Fforde fans will love.' Woman's Weekly'All the elements of a moving love story are blended to perfection.' The Lady'A force to be reckoned with for her uplifting tales of romance' Daily Express'Top-drawer romantic escapism.' Daily Mail'Warm, brilliant and full of love.' Heat'A charming romance about discovering your own worth' Woman's Own____________Dominica. A beautiful remote island where the sun shines and the living is easy.And where Cass goes to photograph a rare stone carving as a favour to her father.With her is Ranulph, a deeply attractive, much-travelled journalist, who offers to help Cass with her quest.But Dominica has just been hit be a severe hurricane, and Cass and Ranulph are spending all of their time helping the local community.Cass knows she must not fall in love with him... He is just looking out for her. He's being kind.There is no way he could be even the slightest bit interested in her. Could he?_________Readers can't get enough of Island in the Sun . . .***** 'There is mystery, intrigue, romance and danger all set against the beautiful backdrop of Dominica - and I loved it so much I was reading far into the night as I couldn't put it down.'***** 'It was such an easy and sweet read and I curled up on the sofa and lost myself in it ... Perfect escapism.'***** 'This is a great beach read ... Katie Fforde always writes a great moving story about love and friendship and self discovery and inner strength.'***** 'A wonderful read that will keep you engrossed from start to finish.'***** 'This book has everything I've come to expect from this author, great writing, humour, love and a little suspense, all cleverly wrapped up in a fabulous book.'-One Enchanted Evening, Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023

TREASURES OF THE CARIBBEAN is a unique compilation of treasures from all ages and inhabitants of the Caribbean. The Taino - Lost Civilization of the Caribbean: This collection of historical artifacts and relics of the indigenous inhabitants is one of the finest in the world. It includes relics of stone, bone, ceramic, jade, gold, shell and wood. Guns of Columbus & the Columbus Collection: Columbus' personal matchlock gun and a breech loading swivel cannon from a Columbus shipwreck site. Period portraits of Columbus, Ferdinand, Isabella, 15th c. stone portrait bust of Isabella, etc. Treasures: Maps, relics, manuscripts, artifacts, crucifixes, religious medallions, crucifix of fray Bartholomew de Las Casas given him by Isabella. 16th c. copy of Las Casas' "La Destruction de los Indios" showing torture & killing the Indians. Spanish Swords Arms & Relics of the Spanish Colonial Era: Daggers, swords, pistols, muskets, artifacts, paintings and sculptures. Buccaneer & Pirate Treasure, Swords and Arms: Gold/silver coins, treasure chests, wooden peg-leg, wrought iron prosthetic arm hook (Captain Hook). Caribbean Ship Model Collection. Black History: Rare Voodoo mask paintings, slave trade shackles, whip. Sharks: Antique paintings of dramatic Caribbean shark attacks.

Brought to you by Penguin.'I'm black, so you don't have to be,' Colin Grant's uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden he believed his parents' generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very different.This is a memoir told through a series of intimate intergenerational portraits. We meet Grant's mother Ethlyn, disappointed by working-class life in Luton, who dreams of returning to Jamaica; his father Bageye, a small-time criminal with a violent temper; his sister Selma, who refashioned herself as an African princess; his great uncle Percy, estranged from his family through his own pride.Each character we meet is navigating their own path. Each life informs Grant's own shifting sense of his identity. Collectively these stories build into poignant and insightful testimony of black British experience. Written the intrigue, nuance, beauty and wit of short stories, and with the veracity and painful revelation of memoir, I'M BLACK, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE is a unforgettable exploration of family, identity, race and generational change.(c) Colin Grant 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau. Angus Konstam, one of the world's leading pirate experts, has brought his 30 years of research to create the definitive book on the Golden Age of Piracy. Many of the privateers the British had used to prey on French and Spanish shipping during the War of the Spanish Succession turned to piracy. The pirates took over Nassau on the Bahamian island of New Providence and turned it into their own pirate haven, where shady merchants were happy to buy their plunder. It became the hub of a pirate network that included some of the most notorious pirates in history: Blackbeard, "Calico Jack" Rackam, Charles Vane and Bartholomew Roberts. The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America's Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war on the pirates. The Pirate Menace draws on extensive research, as well as a wide range of first-hand accounts, to produce a new history of the heyday of historical piracy.

What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European onslaught? All but a few were wiped out. This remarkable book explores the history and culture of those who survived: the Kalinagos of Dominica - from resistance, to refuge and now revival.

264 sider inkl. 16 sider med farvefotos samt 22 detailkort.Guiden beskriver detaljeret 23 forslag til vandreture på denne ø i det karibiske hav. (Ikke at forveksle med den Dominikanske republik). Udvidet afsnit om vandreruter og praktisk information for besøgende. Detaljeret beskrivelse af vandsport samt andre oplevelser.

Grenada Travel Guide - Holiday advice and travel tips on everything from St George's highlights and beaches, diving and whalewatching to rum and chocolate tasting. This guide also includes suggested itineraries, Paradise and Grand Anse beaches, turtles, Grand Etang National Park, Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Belmont Estate, Amerindian petroglyphs.

"Bats of the West Indies synthesizes information concerning the history, structure, distribution, ecology, behavior, and reproduction of sixty-one species of bats currently living in the islands. The book also summarizes the basic biology of bats, human-bat interactions, conservation concerns, and factors affecting the local distribution of these mammals"--

Collins Junior History of Grenada is tailored to students at upper-primary and lower-secondary level and is designed to help students gain a solid understanding of Grenadian history by covering the syllabus in depth.

Sometimes you need to clash to make an impact.Bianca Bridge is like an eyeshadow palette. She's a vibrant kaleidoscope of big personality and even bigger dreams, with a tendency towards messiness and fallout. Case in point: ruining her career prospects and hopes of becoming a writer by having an affair with a married government minister.Fiercely confident and uncompromising, her tyrannical new boss Obadiah Cortland - makeup artist and legend in Trinidad's beauty scene - is like a statement red lipstick. 'The God of Good Looks' is a facade he has perfected over years of slipping through the island's rigid class barriers, and he knows as well as Bianca that the tiniest smudge can ruin your image.When Bianca's ex threatens both their futures, this clashing combination must find a way to work together to save everything they care about. But might they actually bring out the best in each other?Sparkling, big-hearted and life-affirming, The God of Good Looks is a story about prejudice and pride, the masks we wear and who we can become if we dare to take them off.-----'Phenomenal! A book worthy of a standing ovation. I will never forget how this novel made me feel' LIZZIE DAMILOLA BLACKBURN, author of Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?'A dazzling delight ... I didn't want it to end!' COCO MELLORS, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein'A glittering will-they, won't-they Bridget Jones re-boot' NIKKI MAY, author of Wahala

I året 1745 indlogerer den gamle sørøver Billy Bones sig på en kro i Bristol. Med sig har han et dyrebart skattekort, og han beder kroejernes søn Jim Hawkins holde udkig efter andre sømænd. Det viser sig, at Billys gamle skibskammerater også er ude efter skattekortet og forsøger at angribe kroen. Da Billy dør uventet, lykkes det Jim at sikre sig skattekortet, og sammen med godsejeren Trelawney og lægen Livesay drager han af sted på skattejagt. Ombord på skibet Hispaniola sætter den etbenede skibskok Long John Silver et mytteri i gang, og det står klart for Jim, at han ikke kan stole på besætningen. Med hjælp fra Trelawney og Livesay forsøger han at overleve rejsen mod skatteøens kyst. Denne udgave er oversat og bearbejdet af Kai Flor (1886-1965).Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) var en skotsk forfatter. Han skrev en lang række skønlitterære værker, noveller, skuespil og rejseskildringer, men er bedst kendt for romanerne "Skatteøen" fra 1883 og "Dr. Jekyll og Mr. Hyde" fra 1886. Som barn blev han ramt af tuberkulose, og han var mærket af sygdommen hele livet. På trods af dette insisterede han på at rejse verden rundt og arbejde med sine bøger. I 1890 bosatte han sig på Samoa, hvor han fire år senere blev ramt af en hjerneblødning og døde i en alder af blot 44 år.

The untold story of the founding father's likely Jewish birth and upbringing-and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. For more than two centuries, his youth in the Caribbean has remained shrouded in mystery. Hamilton himself wanted it that way, and most biographers have simply assumed he had a Christian boyhood. With a detective's persistence and a historian's rigor, Porwancher upends that assumption and revolutionizes our understanding of an American icon.This radical reassessment of Hamilton's religious upbringing gives us a fresh perspective on both his adult years and the country he helped forge. Although he didn't identify as a Jew in America, Hamilton cultivated a relationship with the Jewish community that made him unique among the founders. As a lawyer, he advocated for Jewish citizens in court. As a financial visionary, he invigorated sectors of the economy that gave Jews their greatest opportunities. As an alumnus of Columbia, he made his alma mater more welcoming to Jewish people. And his efforts are all the more striking given the pernicious antisemitism of the era. In a new nation torn between democratic promises and discriminatory practices, Hamilton fought for a republic in which Jew and Gentile would stand as equals.By setting Hamilton in the context of his Jewish world for the first time, this fascinating book challenges us to rethink the life and legend of America's most enigmatic founder.

This book analyzes the ways in which the Venezuelan immigrant community is making an impact on the social and economic dynamic of small economies. This publication addresses some of the main economic development conversations on trade, labor, and fiscal implications of immigration. This book attempts to collate and unpack some of the relevant theoretical frameworks which provide a basis for policymakers and other key decision-makers. In this regard, the links between immigration and economic development is discussed with a focus on Trinidad and Tobago as a representative case within the Caribbean community.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial Caribbean

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER '[Mr Loverman is] Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn FrenchWINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 and FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION 2015 Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.His deeply religious and disappointed wife, Carmel, thinks he sleeps with other women. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce Carmel and live with Morris, but after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?Mr Loverman is a ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies and shows the extent of what can happen when people fear the consequences of being true to themselves.Praise for Bernardine Evaristo: 'One of Britain's most innovative authors . . . Bernardine Evaristo always dares to be different' New Nation'Evaristo remains an undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world view is anything but one-dimensional' Sunday Times'Audacious genre-bending, in-yer-face wit and masterly retellings of underwritten corners of history are the hallmarks of Evaristo's work' New Statesman Bernardine Evaristo is the author of three critically acclaimed 'verse novels' - Lara, The Emperor's Babe (which won the Arts Council Award in 2000) and Soul Tourists. Mr Loverman is her second prose novel, after 2008's Blonde Roots. Evaristo is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, and was awarded an MBE in 2009. She lives in London.

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda, West Indies, it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world.

In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.