Peepal Tree Press: 17 books

Like a Trinidadian Cheers, a rich cast of characters come together to restore a dilapidated bar on a Caribbean island. In this brilliantly comic novel, Barbara Jenkins hears, like Sam Selvon, the melancholy behind the kiff-kiff laughter. At its heart is a dilapidated bar in Port of Spain, and a woman...

To be gay and growing up in the small GreekBahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories...

Her daughter Ruthie's easy ascent through school and university has been Mrs. B's pride and joy for some time. But as the novel begins, she and her husband Charles are on their way to the airport to collect Ruthie, who has disgraced herself with a married man and a suicide attempt, and is, as they...