Bocas winner’s cover goes Underground
By Essiba Small [email protected] …featured in London train stations When Monique Roffey won this year’s One Caribbean Media Prize for Caribbean Literature at the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, her publisher not only decided to change the cover of the…
Local Author Alex McMaster Takes Story & Craft Time on Safari
Young booklovers and their parents are in for a special surprise when local author Alex McMaster hosts Story & Craft Time on Saturday, July 27, at 10:30am at Books & Books, Camana Bay. Families will enjoy a presentation and signing…
Venezuela’s Ambassador to Belize releases book on his country’s role in the region
By Marion Ali, LoveFM “Reflexiones de el Caribe”, a piece written by Venezuela’s new Ambassador to Belize, Yoel Perez Marcano, was released today to coincide with that country’s 202nd anniversary of Independence. It speaks of how Venezuela, which was the…
Painting the Wind: The ambition and frustration of a Caribbean man
By Sir Ronald Sanders, Jamaica Observer Every now and again, a book comes along that will be kept near to hand and will end up very dog-eared by constant use. Such a book is Ian McDonald’s A Cloud of Witnesses…
“Crazy Coconut Christmas Chronicles”
#1 Best-Selling Author Scott Vedder Releases Holiday Storybook Entitled ‘Crazy Coconut Christmas Chronicles’ From books.broadwayworld.com In the “Crazy Coconut Christmas Chronicles,” the heroes of the story encounter bullying pirates, explore the legend of a witchdoctor and learn how a clumsy elf…
“Birds of the Cayman Islands” makes UK’s Guardian Birdbooker report
Birdbooker Report 273 Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~ Arnold…
Local Author Elke Feuer Presents Haunting Love Story
Filled with sensuality and suspense, local author Elke Feuer’s supernatural debut will captivate readers from the first page and keep them on the edge of their seats until the very end. Join Feuer at Books & Books, Camana Bay for…
Houston author’s steamy book [Cayman Heat] has been picked up for TV
By Shelby Hodge, Culture Map Houston Last June, Connie Reeves Cooke was in New York at the Book Expo America promoting her second novel Cayman Heat. This June, she is celebrating news that her entertaining page-turner has been picked up…
Local author Karlene Stewart presents inspirational new novel
Inspired by two young ladies whose life decisions led them along very different paths, local author Karlene Stewart has written a fictional autobiography that she hopes will serve as a positive guide for Cayman’s youth. Families are invited to join…
Losing a leg but never losing hope — cancer survivor’s story inspires others in new book and DVD
Missy Koch Billingsley’s survival story is poignantly depicted in the new book and DVD, Run to Win. To give back to others as so many did for her, $10 for every book sold on the book’s website will be donated…