Category Archives: Caribbean
Pill City: How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire
Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking for a route out of poverty. When Baltimore was engulfed in riots in 2015 they helped loot pharmacies, stealing over $100 million worth of opiates. The plan: to use their gang connections and programming skills to set up a high tech drug delivery service. The result: the
Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic
The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90,000 prize. Six men died in the brutal and close-fought contest, and the event changed the perception of yachting from a slightly effete gentlemen`s pursuit into something altogether
Madness is Better than Defeat
In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns
The Mysterium: Unexplained and extraordinary stories for a post-Nessie generation
In THE MYSTERIUM David Bramwell and Jo Keeling (authors of THE ODDITORIUM), present a user guide to the strange and unexplained corners of modern life. THE MYSTERIUM catalogues a host of bizarre, funny and intriguing stories for a post-Nessie generation still fascinated by the unknowable. Drawing on contemporary folklore, unsolved mysteries, and unsettling phenomena from
KILLER T
Our world is about to change in ways we can barely imagine. KILLER T is a novel about growing up in that world. Harry and Charlie are teenagers whose lives are shaped by a society that`s shifting around them. He is a lonely Brit in his first term at a Las Vegas high school. She
An Untamed State
Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti`s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front
Touched By God: How We Won the Mexico `86 World Cup
In June 1986 Diego Maradona, considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, proudly hoisted the `86 Mexico World Championship Cup in his hands.Now over thirty years on from that magical game, and after a life in sports marked by controversy, Maradona tells, for the first time, the untold stories behind that
Manhattan Beach
* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction* Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer,
The Sympathizer
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of
See What I Have Done
Haunting, gripping and gorgeously written, SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE by Sarah Schmidt is a re-imagining of the unsolved American true crime case of the Lizzie Borden murders, for fans of BURIAL RITES and MAKING A MURDERER. `Eerie and compelling, Sarah Schmidt breathes such life into the terrible, twisted tale of Lizzie Borden and her
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION`A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade` New York Times Book ReviewIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom`s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and
Ricky Hatton`s Vegas Tales
Ricky Hatton`s brilliance as a boxer, his down-to-earth demeanour and his live-wire sense of humour have made him a national treasure. Five of Ricky`s biggest and most explosive fights took place in the boxing Mecca of Las Vegas. Tens of thousands of British fans followed him there to watch these monumental bouts, and to soak
Tree Surgery for Beginners
From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER, TREE SURGERY FOR BEGINNERS is a funny, elegant and eclectic novel of love, lies and the secrets we live with `A very funny, often sad, erudite eclectic novel writ with style. Terrific` Time Out`Excellent` The TimesWhen Lawrence Frost wakes up one morning to discover his wife
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A powerful, heart-wrenching novel of the other side of an island paradise
`Jones`s atmospheric debut has a multiracial, multigenerational cast who are brilliantly and even-handedly portrayed` Sunday Times`A hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer` Bernardine Evaristo`A bright new star. Cherie Jones draws us with skill, delicacy and glorious style into a vortex of Bajan lives on the edge` Diana EvansIn Baxter`s Beach, Barbados, Lala`s
Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence
Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders` strength and as protection against
Ali: A Life: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017
BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING. THE TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR. The most comprehensive and definitive biography
A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and its Relevance Today
September 1st, 2014 marked the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in history – the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. From being the commonest bird on the planet 50 years earlier, the species became extinct on that fateful day, with the death in Cincinnati Zoo of Martha – the last of her kind. This
Leonardo Da Vinci
The #1 New York Times Bestseller `Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he`s simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man`Books of the Year – The Times `Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural
Bill Oddie Unplucked: Columns, Blogs and Musings
When Bill Oddie was growing up one of his favourite books was a collection of essays called The Bird-Lover`s Bedside Book. His new book, Bill Oddie Unplucked, is just that sort of book. It contains 50 of Bill`s essays, magazines articles and blogs, designed to be read in any order you want, with each tale
On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump
`Everything you would expect of a James Naughtie book – droll, absorbing and wonderfully perceptive.` Bill Bryson`A revealing and at times spellbinding tapestry of a nation…It is thought-provoking, constantly surprising and hugely entertaining. Sublime stuff.` Michael Simkins, Mail on Sunday`An insightful account of living through momentous times…much to enjoy in Naughtie`s astute memoir.` Martin Chilton,
