Dear Dad...Ky-mani Marley's Autobiography - Book Review
Family ties are the ties that bind, but when unraveled, they can be the threads that nearly hang us to death. In fact, sometimes our most vehement enemies emerge from the same sources from which we yearn to receive so much love—our families. Ky-Mani Marley knows this firsthand.

Run to Freedom - Book Review
Run to Freedom is an adventure story for junior readers, set on an eighteenth century sugar plantation in Jamaica. The young protagonist is Kofi, son of an enslaved Asante warrior named Kwame. Kofi's father fights vigorously against enslavement, and vows to escape the plantation and find a way to free his wife and children.

Olympic Gardens - Jamaican Book Review
Olympic Gardens is a coming-of-age story, a powerful evocation of the life of an unwanted boy that grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. Most countries have their celebrity town like York of the British writers and the Trench Town of Bob Marley. This story is important work that has not been done so far in this genre about the town of Olympic Gardens.

Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women's Writings - Book Review
Western European mythology and history tend to view spirituality and sexuality as opposite extremes. But sex can be more than a function of the body and religion more than a function of the mind, as exemplified in the works and characters of such writers as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Edwidge Danticat.

Stages of Me - Jamaican Book Review
Stages of Me is a 238-page novel that revolves around the disintegration of the intricately interwoven lives of members of three starkly different New Jersey families. The story is at times gritty, in-your-face and unflinching, but at its core is one that is predicated on love as it explores the dizzying peaks and depressing lows of family relationships.

I And I Bob Marley - Book Review
Born in the Jamaican countryside in 1945, Bob Marley seemed special from birth. The curious, intuitive boy had an extraordinary gift for absorbing and interpreting the world around him.

Book Review: A Cow Called Boy
A touching story of Josh's fight to save his hand-reared bull-calf, Boy, from the butcher's greedy hands. A Cow Called Boy is a humorous and dramatic true-to-life novella or novelette which can be enjoyed as a serialized bed-time story read to pre-literate tots.

Reaper of Souls: A Novel of the 1957 Kendal Crash - Jamaican Book Review
The Kendal crash was, at the time, the world’s worst train catastrophe and the worst disaster in Jamaica’s history, taking more than 250 lives, including 14 from East’s family. Using the disaster as a backdrop, as well as eyewitness and survivor accounts, archival photographs, and the Commission of Inquiry Report (1958), East imagines a different outcome of the tragedy for the fictional Scott family. Reaper of Souls begins on the day of the catastrophe and follows the Scotts as they leave Jamaica as part of the Great West Indian Migration to the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The Dead Yard : Jamaican Book Review
Jamaica used to the source of much of Britain’s wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed out in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. Since independence in 1962, it has gradually become associated with a new kind of hell, a society where extreme violence has become ordinary and gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live.

I’m Allergic - Jamaican Book Review
This book targets children who are ages 3 to 7 years old, and the family members that read with them. The tale introduces the topic of food allergies as told by a young character by the name of Li'l Al Lurgic, who is very sensitive to popular edibles that are common to children's diet. The book aims primarily to be fun, and only secondarily speaks to children who have special needs, or sensitivities of which the adult world is lovingly ignorant. In a subtle way, the author is opening a space for more sensitive handling of the individual perculiarities of all small chiildren.

Book Review: From Saddam Hussein To Barack Hussein: The Story of Change, Legacy, and Ascendancy
From Saddam Hussein To Barack Hussein: The Story of Change, Legacy, and Ascendancy, by Jamaican author Donovan A. McFarlane ,communicates the paradoxical nature of change and leadership as processes shaping the very nature of existence, impacting the lives of ordinary and extraordinary individuals alike to forever alter the course of our world. This book chronicles the change process following an approximate decade of leadership, its ineffectiveness and effectiveness, and the breaking and making of strong leaders in national and global political contexts.

The Book of Night Women - Jamaican Book Review
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they—and she—will come to both revere and fear.

Girlie : Jamaican Book Review
Girlie" is a tale of unconditional love that begins in the mountains of Jamaica and takes the protagonists to Canada and back during the island's emergence from Colonial rule.

Little Lion Goes for Gold - Jamaican Book Review
Little Lion leads the pack! Young Zachariah Zion returns for his third challenge – winning a medal for his school's track team.  At first, his little legs fail him, but with hard work and help from his father, he rises to the occasion. The book is written in rhyme and is meant for children age 8 and under.

Oracle of the Sun Gods: Book Review
Oracle of the Sun Gods is a story that follows several young African-American college students as they embark on their summer school exchange program to Sudan. They are forced to take a look at life, love, the unquenchable thirst of youthful ambitions, and examine how the most simple and innocuous decisions can change one’s life forever.

Ferdie the fisherman in Negril : Book Review
This is the story of two ten-year-old English boys, one of Jamaican parentage, holidaying in Negril, Jamaica, with Ferdie the fisherman. Their time in Negril goes beyond their expectations.

The Other Side of Paradise : Book Review
For Karlyna Bancroft, this fiesty, free spirited thirty-one year old Island girl, returning home to assist in her failing family business was definitely not on her agenda.  At the indirect request of her ailing father to come home and after several years living in the United States and barely surviving financially, Karlyna Bancroft goes home to Jamaica. Oracle of the Sun Gods is a story that follows several young African-American college students as they embark on their summer school exchange program to Sudan. They are forced to take a look at life, love, the unquenchable thirst of youthful ambitions, and examine how the most simple and innocuous decisions can change one’s life forever.

‘Souldance’ – dancing through real life with power and beauty : Jamaican Book Review
Soul Dance captures the voice of every Jamaican, as well as their thoughts and dreams. Taken from writings spanning Jean Lowrie-Chin's 30-year career, the pieces reflect the events that uplift, as well as burden, Jamaican society. Her peotry is both universal and prophetic, from the warnings against the rat race in 'Slow Down Child', to the startling take on the life of Lee Boyd Malvo in 'Your Son Too'; they demonstrate that though so much has changed, alot has also stayed the same.

Stir It Up: Reggae Album Cover Art : Jamaican Book Review
Before the advent of music videos and CDs, album covers provided international audiences with a colorful invitation to the exotic, exciting world of Jamaican reggae. Stir It Up surveys this highly popular cover art, featuring rare and classic covers from the early ska era through the dancehall style of the '80s. While the cover art frequently reflects serious political and religious preoccupations, reggae's lighter  side comes through in pictorial tributes to American Westerns, steamy dances, and
smoke-wreathed spliffs.

The World’s Finest - Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee: Jamaican Book Review
 In The World’s Finest, author Norma Benghiat traces the early history of coffee and its journey to the Caribbean. The growing and harvesting techniques are covered, as are the plantation houses unique to the island home of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee. Filled with specially commissioned lavish images depicting the history of coffee and the coffee making process in Jamaica, and sumptuous photographs of coffee drinks, deserts and even main courses, you will be inspired to seek out this brew to confirm for yourself that it is indeed the world’s finest.

Tracing His Foot Prints to Montego Bay: Jamaican Book Review
Each of us has been given a talent and a date with destiny. God has carried
us to a point of reference in our lives, gently placing us down and giving us our space. But now and then His still small voice whispers, “This is the way—walk ye in it.” In Errol Myers’ Tracing His Foot Prints to Montego Bay, four Caribbean natives, two from Jamaica, one from Haiti and Panama, who are also university students—Peter, Magan, Zoya, and Wendy, —are placed on the paradise island of Jamaica.

Sweet Home, Jamaica : Jamaican Book Review
Sweet Home, Jamaica has a universal appeal, but will be particularly attractive to Jamaicans who want to reminisce, remember their country traditions, and touch base with home. It is a bold first novel, and a compellingly delicious "must read". The book is also a refreshing addition to contemporary Caribbean Literature.

Book Review: Olga - A Daughter's Tale
Olga - A Daughter's Tale is based on the true story of a kind, naive and gentle girl who was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. One of eleven children from a close-knit coloured Catholic family, she came to London in 1939 to live with a malevolent, alcoholic aunt intending to study dance and stay for only six months.

Jamaican Movie Review: What Goes Around, A Movie By Steve "Tehut-Nine" McAlpin
What Goes Around is a bold movie that follows the romantic  relationships of two brothers. It takes us through their triumphs and failures. The tangled webs they weave with the women they love, like or just 'check for'.

The Color of Ice- A Canadian Serenade: Jamaican Book Review
After his father’s death, Eric Taylor is left to fend for himself on a small farm in the mountains of Jamaica. He decides to seek his fortune abroad, and chooses Toronto as his new home. It is a decision he immediately regrets. Alone and half-frozen, he longs for the sunshine and sensuality of his homeland.

Book Review - The Sun Always Shines Above the Clouds
The Sun Always Shines Above the Clouds is the autobiography of Claudette Smith’s life growing up in the Caribbean Island of Jamaica. Claudette, who has always been a private individual, has unveiled her life growing up in Jamaica from the tender age of seven to her departure to the United States of America at the age of twenty-seven.

From Harvey River : Jamaican Book Review
Lorna Goodison’s spellbinding memoir of her forebears, From Harvey River, combines family history with that of her beloved Jamaica. She describes how the Harveys settled the town named for them, how they met their respective spouses, and, in the case of her parents, how they adjusted to living in reduced circumstances in Kingston.

Free and Laughing: Spiritual insights in everyday moments : Jamaican Book Review
Free and laughing presents a different way of looking at life – one that is detached, yet accepting and rooted in trust and love. When one lives life this way, one is free to laugh,love and trust. Life becomes a big playground, full of fun, joy and learning. Yes, you fall,there are scrapes, cuts and bruises, but when you are free and laughing, you picky ourself up and play again!

“Layers of Blackness”(Colourism in the African Diaspora) : Book Review
Marcus Garvey’s observations in 1923 are an apt description of the topic of this book. But why write a book about colourism - a term that is rarely used in public spheres and a topic that is equally rarely discussed in private circles? As a journalist who writes predominantly about issues that impact the African Diaspora, I am acutely aware that a great deal of attention is devoted by community leaders to addressing issues of racism that disadvantage black communities and in fighting for social, economic and political equality that is routinely denied to people of colour.

Searching For The Best : Jamaican Book Review
In "Searching for The Best," Hatcher takes snapshots of her life and biblical scripture and puts them into context to relate to the average reader, who must overcome his or her own hardship to achieve their goal. Although the book was written for people from all walks of life in any country

The Colour And Power Of Your Thoughts : Jamaican Book Review
The inspirational genre is set to gain a talented and thoughtful newcomer in writer-thinker J.D. Gordon, who is scheduled to release his first, unique inspirational picture-and-quotations book. These thoughts are both witty and provocative and can be used by speechmakers and writers who need pertinent truths to illustrate their points or just to add ingredients to life.

Being One: High school, the next frontier. Volume 1 : Jamaican Book Review
On Wednesday, September 4th, 1996, it is the first day of high school for Timberly, Barry, Stefania, Zaurah and Latrice in New York City. All come from various backgrounds that includes the regions of the Caribbean, Italy and the North Southern region of America that would add into the melting pot of their school. Yet, who said it would be easy? Stereotypes and prejudices arise even in one's family: Zaurah as a Rastafarian can attest to this. It may not be depicted now, but this book is the beginning of a Christian series. Under God's eyes, we are all one blood. .

No Name Just 216-513: Jamaican Book Review
It is a sort of literary phenomenon when a Jamaican, or a person of any other nationality for that matter, has the inclination or literary aptitude or even the privilege to write a narrative for publication about his personal experiences as an inmate in a United States prison. The autobiographical account, “No Name Just 216-513”, is one such rarity.

Pirated : Jamaican Book Review
This story is about an 11 year old boy who in hiding watched the brutal murder of his parents by prominent men of the town. Despite his testimony, these men were set free and he lost faith in the justice system. The 12 year old plotted, schemed and waited. If it is the last thing he did – he is going to avenge his parents’ death and everything they have pirated from him.

The First Black Britons : Review
Making his first ever trip to the Caribbean, our presenter, British-born child of Jamaican parents, TV-Actor/Comedian, Gary Beadle, leads a journey to discover this amazing story: from the Haitian Revolution & Napoleonic Wars to Abolition of the slave trade; Emancipation and Apprenticeship System to the Morant Bay Rebellion and a struggle for equality; the grand Imperial age to the Ashanti Wars. He visits archives, museums and historical sites in Jamaica, Barbados, and the UK, revealing how Britain purchased thousands of slaves to defeat the French and their allies.

How to Raise Your Child Like A Jamaican : Jamaican Book Review
How to Raise Your Child Like A Jamaican (Life lessons my parents taught me) is a funny island approach to childrearing. Through life lessons such as "I've Been Working Since My Eyes Were Down at My Knees" and "Fire De A Mus Mus Tail, Him Tink A Cool Breeze" Dahlia D. Welsh recounts the stories of how her parents

The Relocators : Jamaican Book Review
The name of the book is "The Relocators". It tells the story of a company which is called "The Phoenix Contracting Company". This company employs people who have no relatives, or who has no one who really cares for them. They are sent on assignment from which they do not return. John Anderson, one of the main characters in this story, and who is also an employee of this company, realises what is happening, and with the help of two Jamaican cops, he brought an end to their scheme.

Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories : Jamaican Book Review
Jimmy Harrison loves school and his favorite subject is snack time! But when a new boy, Kevin, joins his class, he begins to bully Jimmy and the rest of the children. What's worse, he begins to take away Jimmy's snacks. Using the wisdom from his Grandpa Sydney's story about "Anancy, Snake, and Tiger," Jimmy overcomes the class bully. And for one Sunday, he reunites his family for dinner. Set in the multicultural environment of South Florida, Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories draws on the rich oral tradition of Anancy stories that are told and re-told in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

Hill-an’-Gully : Jamaican Book Review
A funny and thought-provoking look at politics in a mythical Caribbean island, where bizarre events occur, love blooms and surprises abound.

Little Lion at Bat : Jamaican Book Review
Check out the new Jamaican childrens book 'Little Lion Goes to School'.