Enjoying these Caribbean Christmasstories is the perfect way to spend a relaxing holiday afternoon with friends and relatives.“The Quest “ and “Over and Away” are international award winners while “Half Baked” will tickle your funny bone for sure.“Out Singing” and “Big Sister” speak to the resilience and inventive nature of our beautiful people while the surprise ending of “Christmas Crisis” will warm your heart.

SILK COTTONLovers of Caribbean literature will certainly enjoy this brilliant and entertaining collection. These stories incorporate the culture, folklore and joy of Caribbean life into a delightful pot pourri of insights and experiences. They also reveal the yearnings, the insecurities and the determination of the characters portrayed.“Silk Cotton” meshes folklore with the personal tragedy of forbidden love relationships while

The US Supreme Court is an institution that operates almost totally behind closed doors. This book opens those doors by providing a comprehensive look at the justices, procedures, cases, and issues over the institution’s more than 200-year history. The Court is a legal institution born from a highly politicized process. Modern justices time their departures to coincide with favorable administrations and the confirmation process has become a highly-charged political spectacle played out on ...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

In days gone by, groups of West Indian men, women , boys and girls would congregate on evenings and tell tales. When a story was finished, the narrator would say :"I stepped on the wire and the wire won't bendand that is how my story end".Some of the short stories in this collection have been awarded prizes in international competitions. The majority are written in standard English. A few, though are expressed in the beautiful Barbadian English that many readers find enjoyabl...

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition ...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is a collection of short stories with a festive Caribbean flavour. A number of these stories have been awarded prizes in international competition. Some of them are rendered in beautiful Barbadian English but the author is certain that international listeners will have no difficulty in understanding and appreciating this intimate and rhythmic form of expression.The author wishes to thank Mr. David Lynch, son of the late Louis Albert Lynch, former Mayor of Bridgeto...

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition ...