My Ti Kai, My Home

My Ti Kai, My Home

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

Making Connections

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,...
New Website

New Website

Here’s our glittering new website – thanks to the skills of Dominica-based designer Petrea of @bluecurtaincreative and @petrea_creates. It’s cutting edge — mobile-friendly and generally user friendly. And it’s now so much easier to buy our books. Do you...
Emancipation Day

Emancipation Day

It’s important to remember those who resisted slavery in the Caribbean – and not just on Emancipation Day (1 August). “In the Forests of Freedom” by the Dominican historian and anthropologist Lennox Honychurch tells the story of the Maroons of Dominica who...