English books from Grenada and Carriacuou
Recommended English books written by authors from Grenada and Carriacuou (4)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Grenada and Carriacuou for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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Miss World 1970 : How I Entered a Pageant and Wound Up Making History by Jennifer Hosten EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Jennifer Hosten went to the 1970 Miss World pageant on a lark, representing the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, and came home with the crown and a place in history. What was supposed to be a light-hearted affair, with a parade of the world's most beautiful women vying for the attention of the judges and comedian/host Bob Hope, turned out to be the most controversial, politically-charged, and consequential pageant ever. Women's liberation activists blew up a BBC broadcast truck and stormed London's Royal Albert Hall in an attempt to sabotage the show, which ... continue
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Tell No-one about this : Collected Short Stories 1975-2017 by Jacob James Ross EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
This substantial collection brings together stories written over a span of forty years, including from Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previously published pieces have been extensively revised. They range from stories set in Grenada at different periods from the 1970s onwards, to stories set in the UK. --
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The Grenada Revolution : What Really Happened? by Bernard Coard EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
"A PAGE-TURNING WHO-DONE-IT. A MUST READ!" (Horace Levy, Sociologist, University Lecturer, Civil Society activist and Journalist, Jamaica) Finally, the inside story: honest, self-critical, and based on a wealth of credible and independent documentation. Bernard Coard reveals in dramatic detail the factors, forces and personalities which cumulatively led to deepening crisis within the Grenada Revolution and ultimately to wholesale tragedy. Bernard Coard, United States and British trained economist and university lecturer, played a leading role in the NJM and in the People's Revolutionary Govern... continue
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The Ladies are Upstairs : A Collection of Stories by Merle Collins EN
Country: North America / Grenada and Carriacuou
Grenada and Carriacuou
Description:
From the 1930s through the dawning of a new century, these tender and moving stories underscore living life with style and hidden steel despite one’s circumstances and warn against disregarding the past struggles of others. Doux Thibaut negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz, confronting the shame of poverty and illegitimacy, the hazards of sectarianism on an island segregated into Catholics and Protestants, and the injustices of racism and classism. As an old lady moving between the homes of her children in Boston and New York, Doux wonders whether they and her grandchildren re... continue