Category Archives: Caribbean
The Pisces
`Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away` DOLLY ALDERTON, THE HIGH LOW`Frank, provocative and brilliant` INDEPENDENT`One of the must reads of the season` ELLE`Witty, sharp and painfully insightful` THE POOL`Bizarrely brilliant … Literary erotica has never been so odd, or so
To Obama: A People`s History
One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.`The real story of Obama`s America` Sunday TimesEvery day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. In To Obama,
Sticker Dolly Dressing Holiday & Travel
Dress the dolls as they travel all over the world. Choose their outfits and accessories for diving in tropical oceans, skiing down mountains, going on safari, sight-seeing in San Francisco and lots more. Includes over sixty dollies to dress using over 700 colourful stickers, including travel extras such as special equipment, scenery and even animals.
Hamilton: The Revolution
From Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda comes a backstage pass to his groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda`s groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions
Pig`s Foot: A Novel
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet of wooden shacks and red earth deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales – some taller than others – of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love and identity, spanning four generations. One day Oscar Mandinga wakes to find himself utterly alone in
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia`s furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov – diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by
Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father`s tragic death. It has stood for more than 130 years and is now as much a part of New York as the Statue of
Gloria
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria`s desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a
Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil`s biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a crystal meth maker is venerated as a saint while imposing
Viva La Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America
In his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was eighty-five years old, the historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it
Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life – Updated Edition
The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary names like Pele, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. But in Latin America`s largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the madness of love and the flamboyance of youth – it`s a sport that expresses the identity of
Comida Cubana: A Cuban Culinary Journey
In her debut book, Mi Comida Latina, Marcella Kriebel created a new type of cookbook. It combined vivid watercolors with the culinary traditions of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Now, Marcella returns with a new collection of recipes that span the country of Cuba from coast to coast. Travel the island and discover
New Orleans Red Maps
From the famed French Quarter and Garden District to the surrounding emerging and historic neighborhoods, the Red Map gives you all you need to explore this most unique city of music and food. It also features famous street car lines and an insert map that highlights City Park, Audubon Zoo and the Tulane and Loyola
The Cuban Table
The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and professional chefs, restaurateurs and food writers. Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez and award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman travelled through Cuba, Miami and New York to document and learn about traditional Cuban cooking from a
The Tudors
Join much-loved author/illustrator Marcia Williams on a comic strip journey through Tudor history! A witty, accessible introduction to the Tudors, with full-colour illustrations throughout, from the author of Mr William Shakespeare`s Plays and The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice. Arthur Inkblott, Queen Elizabeth I`s favourite scribe, retells the most famous moments in Tudor history, from
Little House on the Prairie
Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America`s best-loved pioneer family. The sun-kissed prairie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their long, hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving and they soon find that they must share the land with wild bears and Indians.
My Worst Best Friend
This title offers a warm, smart and very funny look at the friendship between two very different girls. Gracie and Savannah are best friends – despite being totally different. Savannah is beautiful, outrageous and irresistible to the opposite sex. Gracie is shy, smart and would rather be learning about lizards than meeting boys. Together they
Buffalo Soldier
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015. โ€What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man`s back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That`s who.โ€ At the end of the American Civil War, Charley – a young African-American slave from the deep south – is ostensibly freed. But
More Than This
From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life – or perhaps afterlife – of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world. A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he
Discovering Dinosaurs
This is the the most thrilling, adventure book, ever! Written by a real-life adventurer, Simon Chapman, be prepared to live your dream and imagine you discovered the dinosaurs. It`s your chance to battle blizzards with swarms of vipers in the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, join the race across the the Wild West of
