The Decline of Barclays Bank

I do not know who wrote this book or what the published title was... if anyone can enlighten me...

Orion

Power Game - Perry Henzell

Set against a background of drugs, sex and reggae in the turbulent 1970s, Power Game tells the story of a Caribbean island sliding into the chaos of civil war, and of the five key players who fight to save it from destruction.

MacMillan Caribbean

The Female Brain - Louann Brizendine

'A woman tends to know what people are feeling, while a man can't seem to spot an emotion unless someone cries or threatens bodily harm'

Bantam Press

The Female Brain - Louann Brizendine

'With this accessible, fun guide, women will discover that they have a lean, mean communicating machine at their disposal - and men will find that at last they have a key to understanding their relationship with women'

Bantam Press

The Female Brain - Louann Brizendine

Did you know that every brain starts off female and that male characteristics only develop eight weeks after conception? This is when excess testosterone shrinks the communication centre, reduces the hearing cortex and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large.

Bantam Press

I received some flak in the National Press for taking a somewhat sexist approach though I produced the cover image that the female art director requested

From Diatoms to Dinosaurs - The size and scale of living things
Chris McGowan

Chris McGowan's fascinating text, Diatoms to Dinosaurs, melds together many facets of evolutionary biology to explain the complex interrelationship between animal body size and surviva

Penguin Books

Alonso and the drug Baron - Evan Jones

Evan Jones is perhaps best known throughout the Caribbean for his rousing Song of the Banana Man. Internationally he is known as the writer of many memorable feature films and plays for television. His new novel, Alonso, a Jamaican tale of drug smuggling and greed, murder and innocence, is fast-paced and very funny.

MacMillan Caribbean

The Girl with the Golden Shoes - Colin Channer

The Girl with the Golden Shoes tells the story of Estrella Thompson, a 14-year-old forced to fend for herself when she is banished from the isolated fishing village where she has lived all her life. Her crime? Wanting to read and write. Prematurely ripe in body and mind, and contemptuous of the boundaries placed on her by gender, race, and social class, Estrella takes the villagers' rejection as a chance to change her life. Her aim is to get to Europe, which means she has to get a job – which means she has to get a pair of shoes… and she's never worn a pair in her life.

MacMillan Caribbean

John Crow's Devil - Marlon James

In the village of Gibbeah – where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives – magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two men of God. The story begins when a drunkard named Hector Bligh (the “Rum Preacher”) is dragged from his pulpit by a man calling himself “Apostle” York. Handsome and brash, York demands a fire-and-brimstone church, but sets in motion a phenomenal and deadly struggle for the soul of Gibbeah itself.

MacMillan Caribbean

Fear of Stones and other stories

Walking on the tiger road: "There was still tell-tale sand of a beach nearby. Giant coconut trees continued to grow on either side of the road, their spindly leaves meeting in the air, so the evening sun could only come through the spaces that were left. And Mark’s breath caught in terror as he looked on this effect – the coconut trees, the light, the shadows – the road as if it were striped – orange and black, orange and black.”

MacMillan Caribbean

If You Wany My Opinion - Bernard Levin

A collection of Bernard Levin's columns from 'The Times'

Jonathan Cape

For Nothing at All - Garfield Ellis

Wes continued to study hard, but it was the boys who left school before him who seemed to do well, with their weed, their guns, their flashy clothes and new cars.  And when Wes graduated with the best results his school had ever seen, he couldn’t get a job.

MacMillan Caribbean

The Festival of San Joaquin - Zee Edgell

Luz Marina, jailed for the murder of her violent husband, returns to her home village, hoping to leave the past behind and win back custody of her children. But first she must reckon with the ill-will of her former employer and mother-in-law, the wealthy landowner Doña Catalina, who plots to ruin Luz Marina’s chances of rebuilding her life.

MacMillan Caribbean

The Festival of San Joaquin - Zee Edgell

Luz Marina, jailed for the murder of her violent husband, returns to her home village, hoping to leave the past behind and win back custody of her children. But first she must reckon with the ill-will of her former employer and mother-in-law, the wealthy landowner Doña Catalina, who plots to ruin Luz Marina’s chances of rebuilding her life.

MacMillan Caribbean