The Reading Agency Summer Reading Challenge We’re thrilled that Good Night My Sweet Island, our new children’s picture book written by Petrea Honychurch Seaman and illustrated by Susanne Heitz , has been chosen by the UK’s Reading Agency as one of only 25 picture...
Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey for the first time. Forty years ago last month I first visited Dominica – in my capacity as a journalist – to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK...
ELMA NAPIER REMEMBERED It is 50 years this month since the death of Elma Napier, writer, pioneering environmentalist, and the first woman to sit in a West Indian House of Assembly. She arrived in Dominica via Scotland, her birthplace; Australia where she went with her...
My Ti Kai, My Home. Olive Bell Olive Bell, the Dominican architect remembers life in a tikai as a child and how that experience inspired her to become an architect. Olive Bell was part of the team who collaborated on the making of the just published book, ‘Still...
Making connections Women Writers Making connections… Three white women writers of Dominica – Jean Rhys, now the subject of a new and much acclaimed biography by Miranda Seymour, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, writer and politician, and Elma Napier, also writer,...
En Papillote reading by Mac Donald Dixon Papillote Press continues its En Papillote series with a reading by Mac Donald Dixon, author of the just published A Scream in the Shadows. A crime story, it is set in St Lucia. A death far from paradise. ...