This book of text, illustrations, and photographs tells the story of a remarkable people. The Kalinago people of Dominica are the last survivors of the indigenous peoples of the region - their ancestors largely wiped out after the European encounter. With their own words and pictures, this book offers an extraordinary insight into the Kalinago people as they see themselves today.

Yet We Survive: The Kalinago People of Dominica: our lives in words and pictures

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Papillote Press

"Crime writing with a harsh edge." - Nicholas Clee, The Guardian This anarchic collection of short stories chronicles the Dominican escapades of a private detective whose special knack is getting into (and out of) street scrapes. He escapes from drug dens, bent policemen, ghosts, disdainful girlfriends and crazy dogs. These are crime tales from "the block" - a modern, irreverent look straight from the back streets of Dominica. This is Christborne Shillingford's first book. He lives in rural Dominica, his birthplace.

Most Wanted: Street Stories from the Caribbean

Literature & Fiction

Shillingford, Christborne

Literary

Elma Napier’s remarkable memoir chronicles her love affair with Dominica. It began in 1932 when she turned her back on London’s high society to build a home in Calibishie, then a remote village on Dominica’s north coast. There are tales of bohemian house parties, of war and death, smugglers and servants and, above all, of stories inspired by her political life as the only woman in a colonial parliament, her love for the island’s turbulent landscapes and her curiosity about the lives and culture of its people.

Black and White Sands: A bohemian life in the colonial Caribbean

Biographies & Memoirs

Napier, Elma

Community & Culture

The migrants' journey is a well-told story but much less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is it like to be back home? Home Again is a collection of contemporary real-life stories by men and women who have returned to Dominica.

Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return

This delightful children's book - the first to be written by local children in Dominica - tells the story of the myth of the Kalinago snake. The Kalinago people were the island's first inhabitants but gradually lost their land to colonization. Now they live by the sea in a mountainous and rain forested part of the islands known as the Kalinago Territory. This is where, according to the myth, a great snake, known in our story as Bakwa, came out of the sea, slithered on to the land - the rocks are the marks his belly left - and went up to his cave. He will stay there sleeping, as you will read in our story, until the world is at peace again. Ages 7 and up.

The Snake King of the Kalinago

Children's Books

Atkinson School

Animals

A terrific adventure story for young people set in Dominica. Teenage twins James and Jerome discover that treasure, buried during the days of slavery, is their rightful inheritance. As the boys de-code the clues that will lead to the treasure, they have some strange encounters. And, of course, there's also an evil stranger who confronts them in an exciting climax. Abraham's Treasure mixes a classical hunt-the-treasure plot with a hint of magical realism to give a real page-turning quality. Ages 14 and up.

Abraham's Treasure

Teen & Young Adult

Skerrett, Joanne

Historical Fiction

Look Back!

Look Back! celebrates the relationship between a grandmother and her grandson as she tells him about her Caribbean childhood adventures in the rainforest in search of a mysterious creature called Ti Bolom. Is Grannie's Ti Bolom real or just one of her stories? This is a beguiling tale that weaves the traditional experience with a modern curiosity. An award-winning writer and illustrator have come together to create a magical children's picture book

Love for an Island brings together the poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey for the first time. Written over four decades, the collection reflects Allfrey's personal circumstances of place and politics (both tropical and temperate). Allfrey (1908-1986) was a white Dominican who defied her class and colour in her politics and her writing.

Love for an Island: The Collected Poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey

Allfrey, Phyllis Shand

Poetry

Island Voices: From St Christopher & the Barracudas

Philip Nanton

Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence to explain how the Maroons waged war against slave society, the book reveals for the first time fascinating details about how Maroons survived in the forests and also about their relationship with the enslaved on the plantations. It also examines the key role of the British governor who succeeded in suppressing the Maroons and how the Colonial Office in London reacted to his punitive conduct. Read the evidence and hear the voices of the oppressed in resistance and defeat.

Your Time is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica 1813-1814

History

Polly Pattullo

Americas

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