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Busha's mistress or Catherine the fugitive 9766370443
Fiction
Perkins, Cyrus Francis £8.99
First published in a newspaper in Jamaica in 1911, this ‘forgotten’ novel has been reconstructed from manuscript sources and the newspaper version. It tells the story of Catherine, a slave concubine of a cruel white overseer on the Greenside Estate, near Falmouth on Jamaica’s north coast.
Catherine flees the overseer, finding refuge with sympathetic friends who take her to England. The descriptions of myal, obeah and Maroon resistance are poignant revelations of the tensions of slave life in Jamaica in the years before Emancipation. The author, born in Falmouth in 1813 was the son of a military doctor who had previously served on the Gold Coast in West Africa.
Muscular learning 9766372306

Non Fiction
Seecharan, Clem £12.99
Inspired by CLR James's masterpiece Beyond a Boundary, Clem Seecharan in this book explores the role of that quintessential imperial game — cricket, and education in the shaping of identity in the former British West Indies from the latter years of slavery to 1900. He goes even further by locating the foundations of the liberal democratic tradition in the access to organized cricket by the West Indian colonial as well as the birth of an indigenous intellectual tradition from as early as the 1890s.
 
 
Sweetening bitter sugar 9789766371937
Non Fiction
Seecharan, Clem £15.99
This book is about Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana (Guyana) towards the end of the empire. Campbell, the head of the Booker Company which owned most of the sugar plantations in colonial Guyana was a reformer whose Fabian socialist beliefs drove him to secure major benefits for sugar workers in the 1950s–60s.  
 
Modernizing the state 9766372470

Non Fiction
Sutton, Paul £12.99
This book analyses and assesses how the New Public Management reforms have worked out in practice with particular reference to Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. It covers both the theory and practice of public sector reform and new public management in the region and is unique in examining in detail the concept of policy transfer, which has been a controversial aspect of the new reform regimes in developing countries.  
 
 
Fiction
V.S. Naipaul revisited 9789766373238
Tewarie, Bhoendradatt  
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.  
 
The pan-Africanists 9768123907

Non Fiction
Thompson, Dudley £3.99
This book celebrates the life of 17 Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world. Inspired by the Pan-Africanists portfolio, a series of oil paintings by artist Barrington Watson, author Dudley Thompson presents the reader with succinct biographies each illustrated in full colour by a portrait in oil. Included among the biographies are Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jnr., Muhammad Ali, Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela. This is both an art book and an important reference work for young readers throughout Africa and the Diaspora.. Barrington Watson is one of Jamaicas leading artists. He is the author of Shades of Grey, a collection of autobiographical stories illustrated with his own paintings.
9766372462
Non Fiction
Jamaican hands across the Atlantic
Thompson, Paul £12.99
Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic is a unique account of a type of transnational family, which may become increasingly typical in the new era of a globalized world economy and communication. It attests to the resilience and adaptability of a people who refuse to be defined in terms of their geographical birthplace making the book a delightful and inspiring read.  
Caricom our Caribbean community 9766370567
Non Fiction
Unstated, £10.99
This introductory text provides a comprehensive source of information on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its people. It locates the region and people of CARICOM within the wider hemispheric and global community, and traces key developments that led to the establishment of CARIFTA, later CARICOM and beyond that, the significant initiatives being taken to strengthen the Community, most notably the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).  
 
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