Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.

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Annie John is growing up on the magical island of Antigua. It should be a sojourn in paradise for her but adolescence takes the brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries, and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home.

There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.

Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him.

In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader.

This title chronicles the successful revolt when brutally treated slaves in Saint Domingo, (what is now Haiti), rose up in rebellion against their French masters during the French Revolution in 1791. Included is a critical portrait of the slave's leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Bursting with imaginative power, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama

A white man arrives on a troubled Caribbean island with his mistress, an English woman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the revolution , they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence.

When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop.

Simultaneously haunting and horrific, this is an outstanding novel from a young writer of exceptional ability

Set in the tropical island of Cayo Loco, this is the story of cowboy Tully Mars who takes his pony to the shore-on a Caribbean adventure.

The Longman Caribbean Writers Series comprises of many classic novels, short stories and plays by the best known Caribbean authors, together with works of the highest quality from new writers.

A collection of stories set in Haiti, this anthology is structured so that characters who narrate one story may emerge later, seen from an entirely different perspective, in another.

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight, and keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.

Their passionate encounter happened two centuries ago when the gallant renegade Jamie Fraser sent her back to her own time, pregnant with his child, believing he would be killed in the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746. Now their daughter has grown up and Claire discovers that Jamie survived.

Presents an account of the author's journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. This work provides a study of societies - British Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica - examining their common heritage of colonialism and slavery.

A collection of poems by contemporary poet, Derek Walcott, whose subject is the panorama of life, landscape, culture and politics of the West Indies.

A novel of Latin American life.