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The dark side of the upper crust
Debbie JacobSunday, May 26, 2013To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery, by Gail MacColl and Carol McD Wallace (sic) is a real-life chronicle of obscene wealth, soc
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Jamaica, the unchanging nation
Lisa Allen-AgostiniSunday, May 26, 2013In Huracan, author Diana McCaulay explores Jamaica’s history and its present as it plays out in the ghettoes of Kingston and the countryside of Trelawny, finding dis
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A Jamaican callaloo
Debbie JacobSunday, June 2, 2013It’s the literary equivalent of callaloo: an earthy, ethnic mix of history and culture all melded together in a smooth, peppery story.
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Journeys in time and space
Shivanee RamlochanSunday, June 2, 2013The Butterfly Hotel Roger Robinson Peepal Tree Press, 2013
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An unexpected trip into our Chinese connection
Debbie JacobSunday, June 9, 2013There’s nothing worse than when a book club becomes predictable.
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Lisa Allen-AgostiniSunday, June 9, 2013This is How You Lose Her Junot Díaz Riverhead Books, 2012
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A masterful beast
Shivanee RamlochanSunday, June 16, 2013Here Raymond Ramcharitar Peepal Tree Press, 2013In his newest collection of poetry, Raymond Ramcharitar’s voice comes perilously—or profitably—close to resembling...
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Putting history in a new light
Debbie JacobSunday, June 16, 2013Pao author Kerry YoungA book can lead you in a thousand directions.
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Six books from Caribbean authors
Shivanee RamlochanSunday, June 23, 2013SHIVANEE RAMLOCHAN sums up Caribbean books recently crossing her desk.Passages II: Brown Doves Author: Helen Drayton Published by: CreateSpace, 2012.
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Stripping down Young’s influences
Debbie JacobSunday, June 23, 2013Cristina Garcia’s Monkey HuntingAt the very back of Pao, our Sunday Arts Section (SAS) Book Club novel, by Jamaica-born writer Kerry Young, readers will find a treasure...
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Shivanee RamlochanSunday, June 30, 2013Speaking of Promises Author: Debbie Jacob Archimedes Publishers Ltd/Charran Curriculum Speciality, 2011
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Saving Fish hooks readers
Debbie JacobSunday, June 30, 2013Settling on a book club book can be an unsettling experience.
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How to save fish from drowning
Debbie JacobSunday, July 7, 2013Amy Tan, author of Saving Fish from Drowning.Not all books live up to their titles, but that’s not the case for our current Sunday Arts Section (SAS) Book Club choice,...
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Debunking the dream of the ‘perfect’ vacation
Debbie JacobSunday, July 14, 2013Some books have subtle messages, some books bring epiphanies and some books just haunt you into facing something you’ve always known deep down but just couldn’t put...
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Trust and the reader
Debbie JacobSunday, July 21, 2013So what happens when you’ve been totally duped by an author you really love?
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A pleasurable journal of pain
Lisa Allen-AgostiniSunday, July 21, 2013The Gospel According to Cane Author: Courttia Newland Akashic Books, 2013A review by Lisa Allen-Agostini
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Hosseini’s Afghanistan
Debbie JacobSunday, July 28, 2013Khaled Hosseini’s long-awaited third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, is finally here, and it’s our Sunday Arts Section (SAS) Book Club selection for August.
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Kempadoo makes mas with third novel
Shivanee RamlochanSunday, July 28, 2013All Decent Animals Oonya Kempadoo Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
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T&T-born author brings Up in the Air home
Janine Mendes-FrancoSunday, August 4, 2013“How many of you—children or adults—have ever dreamed of flying?” This was writer Ann Marie Meyers’ question to the audience at the launch of her children’s...
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Doing justice to injustice
Debbie JacobSaturday, August 3, 2013No one would have blamed Khaled Hosseini if he had stopped writing after his debut novel The Kite Runner.
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