Men will want you like they want a glass of rum…One man will love you. But you won’t love him. You will destroy his life. The one you love will break your heart in two. So says the soothsayer, when predicting young Celia’s future. Raised in the tropics of Tobago by an aunt she loves and an uncle she fears, Celia has never felt that she belonged. When her uncle–a man the neighbors call Allah because he thinks himself mightier than God–does something unforgivable, Celia escapes to the bustling capital city. There she quickly embraces her burgeoning independence, but her search for a place to call home is soon complicated by an affectionate friendship with William, a thoughtful gardener, and a strong sexual tension with her employer. All too quickly, Celia finds herself fulfilling the soothsayer’s predictions and living a life of tangled desperation–trapped between the man who offers her passion and the one who offers his heart.

Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Smyth, Amanda

Literary

Broadway Books

Best friends Sirus and Bubba fit together like saltfish and bake. That is until Charlie Sand moves into town. All of a sudden Bubba is doing exciting things with a new friend and Sirus doesn't fit in. Can Sirus find a way to share Bubba's friendship with Charlie Sand? Set on the island of Trinidad and aimed at children aged six-ten years old, The Blessing of Charlie Sand is a heart-warming story of friendship. Praise for The Blessing of Charlie Sand "Kids will love both story and pictures in this warm tale of friendship and magic." -Olive Senior, author of Anna Carries Water and many other titles. "The Blessing of Charlie Sand will inspire children to trust in the wisdom that comes from both beyond and within. The emotionally measured text and the immediacy of Bootman's understated illustrations draw the reader in." -Summer Edward, children's book editor and founder of Anansesem.

The Blessing of Charlie Sand

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Caribbean Reads Publishing

Eddie Wade has recently returned from the US oilfields. He is determined to sink his own well and make his fortune in the 1920s Trinidad oil-rush. His sights are set on Sonny Chatterjee's failing cocoa estate, Kushi, where the ground is so full of oil you can put a stick in the ground and see it bubble up. When a fortuitous meeting with businessman Tito Fernandez brings Eddie the investor he desperately needs, the three men enter into a partnership. A friendship between Tito and Eddie begins that will change their lives forever, not least when the oil starts gushing. But their partnership also brings Eddie into contact with Ada, Tito's beautiful wife, and as much as they try, they cannot avoid the attraction they feel for each other.Fortune, based on true events, catches Trinidad at a moment of historical change whose consequences reverberate down to present concerns with climate change and environmental destruction. As a story of love and ambition, its focus is on individuals so enmeshed in their desires that they blindly enter the territory of classic Greek tragedy where actions always have consequences.

Fortune

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

From the author of Black Rock this explores the effect of violence on a family and is set in Trinidad and England Taps into Smyths own experiences of life on the islands

A Kind of Eden

Serpent's Tail

Lauréat du Prix du Premier Roman 2010 ― catégorie romans étrangers.Nous sommes à Tobago, en 1955, dans le village de Black Rock. Celia, une adolescente plutôt jolie, orpheline (sa mère - une Noire - est morte en lui donnant le jour ; son père, d’origine anglaise, vit à Southampton), est élevée par sa tante Tassi. Celle-ci a épousé en secondes noces un certain Roman, brute alcoolique, coureur de jupons, machiste, qui lorgne évidemment Celia.Un jour, il la viole. Celia s’enfuit et embarque pour Trinité où elle trouve un emploi de domestique chez l’étrange et troublant docteur Rodriguez. Son épouse, mentalement fragile, suspicieuse et sujette à des crises de violence, va bientôt deviner que Celia et son mari sont devenus amants. Bien qu’il la découvre enceinte de lui, il est contraint de la chasser. Celia ne voit comme unique remède à sa douleur que de se réfugier auprès de sa tante de Trinité, la douce et chaleureuse Sula. D’où vient la tendresse irrépressible qui les unit ?Black Rock est une réussite littéraire exemplaire. En quelques mots, Amanda Smyth nous dit l’essentiel de la condition humaine.

BLACK ROCK (0000)

PHEBUS

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Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange: A Novel

The Blessing of Charlie Sand

The Blessing of Charlie Sand

The Blessing of Charlie Sand

The Blessing of Charlie Sand

Fortune

A Kind of Eden

BLACK ROCK (0000)