Books from the Caribbean

Papillote Press is a small, independent publishing house specialising in books about Dominica and the wider Caribbean.

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We publish a range of books, both fiction and non-fiction. Our books reflect the culture and literary heritage of the Caribbean.

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Book cover for Lost and Found, An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean

Lost and Found

An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean
Written and Edited by Alison Donnell

ISBN: 9781739130312
Original paperback
Price: £15.99
Publication: April 2025

This is an amazing treasure trove of mid-20th century writers who have slipped out of view or whose work has never been properly recognised. With the help of colleagues, Professor Donnell, head of Humanities and Professor of Modern Literature in English at the University of Bristol, has made some extraordinary discoveries, which will further our understanding of the richness of the Caribbean’s literary history.

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Resistance Refuge Revival, written by Lennox Honychurch

Resistance, Refuge, Revival

The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica

By Lennox Honychurch

ISBN: 9781838041595
2023, Paperback, £7.99

Dominica is the only place in the Caribbean where the Kalinagos – the indigenous people of the region – were able to secure a portion of their own land after everywhere else had been taken from them. This is their remarkable story. Written by a Dominican whose knowledge of the Kalinagos is unsurpassed, it sheds new light on how they shifted identities – from the early years of resistance to European colonisation, through tactical withdrawal to a revival of traditions and respect in the 21st century.

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Looking for Cazabon by Lawrence Scott

Looking for Cazabon

By Lawrence Scott

ISBN: 978173930367
2024, Paperback, £11.99

Lawrence Scott returns in his reflections to the watercolours and the sites of the 19th-century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon, the subject of his novel, Light Falling on Bamboo. Beautifully crafted, these highly regarded poems, mostly sonnets, celebrate the landscape of Trinidad and revisit loves and friendships while evoking both the historical and contemporary violence of its society.

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Cover of children's picture book, Good Night My Sweet Island

Good Night My Sweet Island

By Petrea Honychurch Seaman
Illustrated by Susanne Heitz

ISBN: 9781838041595
2023, Paperback, £7.99

Saying good night “to all things we love”: in a homage to a magical Caribbean island, Good Night Sweet Island takes the reader through a poetic and visually stimulating journey. Each verse celebrates aspects of tropical island life: birds and animals, dance and music, fruit and food, rivers and forests, sea and beach. As the sun goes down, a child says a dreamy good night to all the rich experiences of the day.

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Still Standing, Ti Kais of Dominica

Still Standing

The Ti Kais of Dominica

By Adom Philogene Heron
Photographs by Marica Honychurch

ISBN: 9781838041588
2022, Paperback, £21.50

“A truly superb introduction to a traditional, yet evolving, element of Caribbean vernacular architecture and a fine example of creolization in material culture.” New West Indian Guide 98, forthcoming in “Bookshelf 2023”, spring 2024

This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of the vanishing vernacular architecture of Dominica. These small wooden homes, ingeniously crafted and carefully adapted to their environment, have withstood hurricanes and earthquakes since their emergence in the post-emancipation period. While many modern, concrete homes have been destroyed, they are “still standing’. Even so, they are under threat from the forces of ‘modernity’ and ‘development’.

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Papillote Press publishes books from Dominica and the wider Caribbean. It's small but lovingly formed and is keen to engage its readers - present and future - into the possibilities for new Papillote Press projects.

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On this Valentine's Day we are sharing a quote by Katie Fforde, novelist, talking about BLACK AND WHITE SANDS: A BOHEMIAN LIFE IN THE COLONIAL CARIBBEAN by Elma Napier. In 2024 Katie published ISLAND IN THE SUN, set in Dominica.Her latest novel FROM LONDON WITH LOVE is just out.@ffordekatiePapillote Press#valentinesday #booksarethebestgifts #dominica #readcaribbean #bookstagram #read #katiefforde #papillotepress #blackandwhitesands #islandinthesun #fromlondonwithlove ... See MoreSee Less
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Thank you Caribbean Beat Magazine for helping to spread the word about Resistance, Refuge, Revival: the Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica ... See MoreSee Less
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Looking forward to Diana McCaulay's @dianamccaulay latest book A HOUSE FOR MISS PAULINE out on February 25th. #readcaribbean #caribbeanreads #jamaica #read #bookstagram #papillotepress ... See MoreSee Less
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"Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near.” A quote from Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. The reaction of Antoinette's English husband, Mr Rochester, to his wife's island.Dominica is never named in the novel but it was Rhys' island.#dominica #jeanrhys #nature #papillotepress #booksarethebestgifts ... See MoreSee Less
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ROADS and RAIN. A slice of Dominican history from January 1957 in Black and White Sands by Elma Napier. Elma Napier, as a member of Dominica's Legislative Council, had been instrumental in building the Transinsular Road, finally connecting Roseau with the north-east of Dominica. #memoir #readcaribbean #dominica #read #papillotepress ... See MoreSee Less
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