The last of an old colonial family, Lavren Monagas de los Macajuelos pours forth epic and intimate tales of conquest, crime, and passion. This extraordinary hermaphrodite character observes and acts in the unfolding drama of the new world, and we are drawn into the account of the quest for El Dorado begun by Columbus, the great navigator.

Witchbroom (Caribbean Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Scott, Lawrence

Contemporary

Heinemann

Tales of thwarted desires, repressed passions and betrayals evoke a troubled Caribbean paradise. The legacy of a cruel history haunts this new world society. Individuals are consumed by their own emotions and confused by the shifting ground of their own cultures. With a blend of pathos and ironic humor, Lawrence Scott describes life in this fallen Eden, where both the melancholy and the extravagant play their part.

Ballad for the New World and Other Stories (Caribbean Writers Series)

United States

1938 is a tumultuous year in the small Trinidadian island of El Caracol. In the sultry heat of the summer a young orphan, Theo, is sent to live with the island’s doctor, Vincent Metivier. The doctor knows little of Theo’s past only that it has been troubled and the he now needs love and attention. Yet Theo is not the only one who needs Vincent’s attention. The island is rife with leprosy. Together with Sister Weil, Vincent tries to educate the population about this most taboo of diseases. With war in Europe looming and a feeling of civil unrest building in Trinidad, the staggering beauty of the island is overshadowed by human discord.

NIGHT CALYPSO (P)

British & Irish

Allison and Busby

1938 is a tumultuous year in the small Trinidadian island of El Caracol. In the sultry heat of the summer a young orphan, Theo, is sent to live with the island’s doctor, Vincent Metivier. The doctor knows little of Theo’s past only that it has been troubled and the he now needs love and attention. Yet Theo is not the only one who needs Vincent’s attention. The island is rife with leprosy. Together with Sister Weil, Vincent tries to educate the population about this most taboo of diseases. With war in Europe looming and a feeling of civil unrest building in Trinidad, the staggering beauty of the island is overshadowed by human discord.

Night Calypso

These sensuous stories explore a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality, and crime. One of Scott's earlier short stories won the Tom-Gallon Award and his novels have been long-listed for both the Whitbread Prize and the Booker Prize.

Leaving by plane swimming back underwater: and other stories

Literary

Papillote Press

A visionary history of a Caribbean Spanish/French Creole family and an island over four centuries - to 20th-century independence. With innovative tone and content, its carnival tales of crime and passion are told by the narrator Lavren, who is both male and female. First published in 1992, Witchbroom became a Caribbean classic. The following year it became a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, broadcast over eight nights and read by the author. It was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book. A pioneering work, it heralded a new generation of modernist Caribbean writers who, like Scott, broke away from a predominantly realist literary tradition; Witchbroom identifies more with magic realism. A richly entertaining and many layered read, its intersex narrator brings a contemporary flavor to the novel. The title Witchbroom refers to a fungus that attacks cocoa trees, and is also used as a metaphor for the decline of the island's plantocracy.

Witchbroom

During the 2015 college football season, before the Army Football team would battle on the fields of friendly strife, led by coach, Jeff Monken, they would emphatically chant these words, "I will fight until I can't fight anymore. And when I can't fight anymore. I'll lie down, bleed awhile, get up and fight some more." It was a war cry that did more than lift their spirits, it stirred their souls. The fight of life is short and full of trouble. There may even be times when we have to lie down and bleed awhile. This book is for those times. Whether you're fighting betrayal, negative perceptions or even stress, this simple and inspiring book will not simply lift your spirits. It will stir your soul and equip you with essential tools that will enable you to get up and fight some more.

Bleed Awhile

Self-Help

Motivational

Independently published

Light Falling on Bamboo

Trinidad, 1848. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home from France to his beloved mother's deathbed. Despite the Emancipation Act, his childhood home is in the grip of colonial power, its people riven by the legacy of slavery. Michel Jean finds himself caught between the powerful and the dispossessed. As an artist, he enjoys the governor's patronage, painting for him the island's vistas and its women; as a Trinidadian he shares easy wisdom and nips of rum with the local boat-builders. But domestic tensions and haunting reminders of the past abound. His fiery half-sister Josie - the daughter of a slave - still provokes in him a youthful passion; his flirtatious muse Augusta tempts him as he paints her 'for posterity'. Meanwhile, letters from his white, French wife and children remind him of their imminent arrival on the island.

Tindal Street Press

Trinidad, 1865. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to be at his beloved mother's deathbed. Life on the island seems very different after the freedoms of post-Revolutionary Paris, where his paintings have hung in the Louvre. Despite the Emancipation Act, his childhood home is in the grip of colonial power, its people riven by the legacy of slavery. Michel Jean finds himself caught between the powerful and the dispossessed. As an artist, he enjoys the governor's patronage, painting for him the island's vistas and its women; as a Trinidadian he shares easy wisdom and nips of rum with the local boat-builders. But domestic tensions and haunting reminders of the past threaten his equanimity. His fiery half-sister, Josie - the daughter of a slave - still provokes in him a youthful passion; his flirtatious muse, Augusta, tempts him as he paints her 'for posterity'. Meanwhile, letters from his white, French wife and children remind him of their imminent arrival on the island. Caught in the sweep of history and his own intimate dramas, Michel Jean paints the figures in the landscape, the dappled light as it falls through the bamboo grove.

Tindal st Pr Ltd

This radical and moving historical novel weaves fact with fiction to reveal "the great deception" exercised by the powerful on a mixed race child born in the late 18th century and brought up in the London home of England's Lord Chief Justice.Dido Belle was the daughter of an African-born slave and the sea-faring nephew of Lord Mansfield. She was freed only on Mansfield's death and became Elizabeth D'Aviniere on her marriage. Scott imagines Elizabeth's adult world where she reflects on her disturbed childhood and fears for her own children's safety at risk from slave catchers. Above all, she yearns for her lost mother. Why did she no longer write? Had she, too, been recaptured? The novel builds to a powerful denouement as the events of Elizabeth's past engage with the traumas of her present.

Dangerous Freedom

Genre Fiction

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Witchbroom (Caribbean Writers Series)

Ballad for the New World and Other Stories (Caribbean Writers Series)

NIGHT CALYPSO (P)

Night Calypso

Leaving by plane swimming back underwater: and other stories

Witchbroom

Bleed Awhile

Light Falling on Bamboo

Light Falling on Bamboo

Dangerous Freedom