Bøger om Jamaica

Dr. No – den mystiske og griske dr. No – har kun ét ønske. Men der er kun få, der kender den kinesiske dr. Nos frygtelige hemmelighed, og endnu færre har fået øjnene op for, hvad der foregår på Crab Key ved Jamaica.Og de, der opdagede det, lever ikke længere … En opgave, hvor agent 007 fra Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste må træde til. Rosenkilde & Bahnhof udgiver nu de 14 ikoniske bøger om James Bond, som Ian Fleming (1908-64) selv var forfatter til. To novellesamlinger og 12 romaner. Bøgerne er forsynet med nye forord af den danske Bond-ekspert Rasmus Paaske Larsen.www.ianfleming.com

Pumkin Patterson dreams of a life beyond her Jamaican hometown. But what we dream of and where we belong aren't always the same thing... PRE-ORDER this heartfelt and uplifting story for fans of The Girl With the Louding Voice and The Reading List 'A delightful, at times humorous story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.' CHARMAINE WILKERSON, author of Black Cake'A tender exploration of familial love, both the family you're born to, and the one you find along the way.' CHARLENE CARR, author of Hold My Girl****For Pumkin Patterson, family is complicated. There's her mother Paulette, who only sees Pumkin as a nuisance. There's her beloved Auntie Sophie, who has always talked of she and Pumkin travelling to new horizons. And there's her grandmother, who has always favoured Sophie over Paulette. When Sophie moves to France for work, she promises to send for her niece in one year's time. All Pumkin has to do is pass her French entrance exam. But when Pumkin's mother finds out, she's determined that her sister won't get her own way this time.Now forced to raise the money for her exam in secret, Pumkin turns to her loyal friends to help her secure her way out . . . while evading her mother's suspicions. But while Pumkin dreams of her escape, could happiness be closer to home than she thinks? ____________________________READERS ARE LOVING SWEETNESS IN THE SKIN''This. Was. Amazing! I was hooked from the very first page.'' Reader review ''Absolutely charming. I read it on one sitting, I just couldn't peel myself away from the story of Pumpkin!'' Reader review''I enjoyed reading it and was rooting for Pumkin to find her way on her journey to herself'' Reader review''Funny and heartwarming. Highly recommend adding to your wish list of books to read next year.'' Reader review

Jamaica is a destination for every type of traveler - the relaxers, the partiers, the adventurers, couples, singles, families, and even those doing it solo.

En novell från populära Kjell E. Genberg som utforskar passion, begär, bedrägeri och längtan efter något mer. Det är en berättelse om kärlekens lockelse, de risker den innebär och hur den kan förändra livet permanent.På en resa påväg till Jamaica möter Marie-Louise den unge och charmige mannen. Trots sitt äktenskap inleder de en relation, och resan blir en paus från den tråkiga vardagen. Deras passion blomstrar när de utforskar exotiska platser, delar kärlek och intimitet. Men Tage döljer en annan sida av sig själv, och hans avsikter visar sig vara mindre ärliga än vad de först verkade ...Kjell Erling Genberg (1940-) är en svensk författare och manusförfattare från norra Hälsingland. Genberg är främst känd för sina deckarromaner, westernromaner och sin otroliga produktivitet som författare.

A young English girl experiences the joys and challenges of a unique adolescence, against the backdrop of an island people intent on taking up an independent role in the world.

Sandhed og løgn. Jamaica og England. Hvem har ret til at fortælle? Zadie Smith er tilbage med sin første historiske roman.Kilburn, 1873. Tichborne-sagen har hele Englands udelte opmærksomhed, og enke og husholderske mrs. Eliza Touchet er ingen undtagelse. Folk er rygende uenige om, hvorvidt tiltalte er den, han siger han er – eller en bedrager.Mrs. Touchet er en kvinde med mange interesser: litteratur, kampen for de slavegjortes rettigheder, klassesamfundet, sin fætter som er romanforfatter og hans koner, det jordiske liv og evigheden. Men hun er også skeptisk anlagt og overbevist om at kun få ting er, som de ser ud.Andrew Bogle er kronvidne i Tichborne-sagen, og hans fremtid afhænger af at han fortæller den rette historie – hvis bare han vidste, hvad det ville sige. Med sin opvækst på en plantage i Jamaica i bagagen ved han, at hver en sukkerknald har menneskelige omkostninger. At de rige fører de fattige bag lyset. Og at mennesker er nemmere at manipulere med, end de selv ved af.Bedrageren er baseret på virkelige begivenheder. Et glitrende monument over en verden af hykleri og selvbedrag, hvor det at afgøre hvad der er sandt, er sværere, end man skulle tro.

TREASURES OF THE CARIBBEAN is a unique compilation of treasures from all ages and inhabitants of the Caribbean. The Taino - Lost Civilization of the Caribbean: This collection of historical artifacts and relics of the indigenous inhabitants is one of the finest in the world. It includes relics of stone, bone, ceramic, jade, gold, shell and wood. Guns of Columbus & the Columbus Collection: Columbus' personal matchlock gun and a breech loading swivel cannon from a Columbus shipwreck site. Period portraits of Columbus, Ferdinand, Isabella, 15th c. stone portrait bust of Isabella, etc. Treasures: Maps, relics, manuscripts, artifacts, crucifixes, religious medallions, crucifix of fray Bartholomew de Las Casas given him by Isabella. 16th c. copy of Las Casas' "La Destruction de los Indios" showing torture & killing the Indians. Spanish Swords Arms & Relics of the Spanish Colonial Era: Daggers, swords, pistols, muskets, artifacts, paintings and sculptures. Buccaneer & Pirate Treasure, Swords and Arms: Gold/silver coins, treasure chests, wooden peg-leg, wrought iron prosthetic arm hook (Captain Hook). Caribbean Ship Model Collection. Black History: Rare Voodoo mask paintings, slave trade shackles, whip. Sharks: Antique paintings of dramatic Caribbean shark attacks.

Brought to you by Penguin.'I'm black, so you don't have to be,' Colin Grant's uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden he believed his parents' generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very different.This is a memoir told through a series of intimate intergenerational portraits. We meet Grant's mother Ethlyn, disappointed by working-class life in Luton, who dreams of returning to Jamaica; his father Bageye, a small-time criminal with a violent temper; his sister Selma, who refashioned herself as an African princess; his great uncle Percy, estranged from his family through his own pride.Each character we meet is navigating their own path. Each life informs Grant's own shifting sense of his identity. Collectively these stories build into poignant and insightful testimony of black British experience. Written the intrigue, nuance, beauty and wit of short stories, and with the veracity and painful revelation of memoir, I'M BLACK, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE is a unforgettable exploration of family, identity, race and generational change.(c) Colin Grant 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Den 44-årige stewardesse Jackie Burke har længe suppleret sin indtægt ved at smugle ulovligt tjente penge fra Jamaica til USA for våbenhandleren Ordell Robbie, da politiet griber hende på fersk gerning. Men det er Ordell, de egentlig er interesserede i, og nu truer de Jackie med fængsel, hvis ikke hun lokker ham i en fælde for dem. Ordell får nys om fælden, og nu bliver Jackie presset fra to sider. Samtidig ved hun, at hun ender som en fattig taber, uanset om Ordell bliver fanget eller ej, og hun giver sig til at lægge sin helt egen plan, som er endnu mere risikabel end de to andre."Rum punch" blev i 1997 filmatiseret af Quentin Tarantino med titlen "Jackie Brown" med Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson og Robert De Niro i hovedrollerne.Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) var en amerikansk forfatter, der skrev en lang række populære krimier og spændingsromaner. Hans romaner er blevet oversat til mange sprog og har solgt mange millioner eksemplarer verden over. Elmore Leonard står desuden bag en lang række filmmanuskripter, og flere af hans værker er blevet filmatiseret af stjerneinstruktører som Quentin Tarantino og Danny DeVito.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial Caribbean

From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, with a cast of the famous and infamous, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, lived life to the absolute limits. Privileged yet compassionate, charismatic yet flawed, Regency Buck, Irish landlord, West Indian plantation owner, Knight of St Patrick, Privy Counsellor, intrepid traveller, intimate of kings, emperors and despots, favoured guest in the fashionable salons of London and Paris, patron of artists and pugilists, founder of the Irish Turf Club, friend and fellow traveller of Lord Byron, treasure-seeker, spy, sailor and jailbird, as well as the father of fifteen children, the astonishing range and diversity of Sligo's life is breathtaking.From a youth of hedonistic self-indulgence in Regency England to a reforming, responsible, well-intentioned legislator and landlord, Sligo became enshrined in the history of Jamaica as 'Emancipator of the Slaves' and in Ireland as 'The Poor Man's Friend' during the most difficult of times.Eight years in the writing and sourced from over 15,000 primary contemporary manuscripts located by the author in private and public archives around the world,From Rake to Radical sheds new light on significant historical events and on the people who shaped them in Ireland, England, Europe and the West Indies during a period of momentous political turbulence and change.

After migrating to Canada, Cyril Rowntree navigates the implications of being racialized in his new land as he pieces together the story of a mixed-race baby from the 1920s named Edward.

Texte Universitaire de l¿année 2017 dans le domaine Politique - Politique internationale - Région: Amérique Centrale et Amérique du Sud, note: A+, Université Toulouse II - Le Mirail (Institute Universitaire Jean Francois Champollion), langue: Français, résumé: Cette ¿uvre remit en cause la question des TIC et la place qüelles occupent dans le développement et la promotion de la stratégie culturelle de la Jamaïque. Il argumente que bien que les TIC aient facilité le progrès dans certains domaines de la stratégie culturelle jamaïcaine, ils ont néanmoins contribué à des difficultés qui, d¿une manière ou d¿une autre, ont empêché la réussite de cette stratégie.L¿¿uvre démontre comment les TIC ont été utile aux certains aspects de cette stratégie qui figure dans la politique culturelle du pays de 2003, notamment dans le secteur de la musique culturelle (précisément le reggae et la dance hall) dans la promotion du commerce social ; dans le secteur de la mode ; dans l¿amélioration dans le travail du Ministère ; et dans la promotion de la visibilité et l¿accès à l¿expression culturelle de la Jamaïque. Dans ce cadre, on présente des arguments valides pour l¿emploi continu des TIC dans le secteur culturel du pays. Pourtant, de l¿autre côté, on examine comment les TIC ont affecté négativement ce domaine, en soulignant les problèmes clés du piratage numérique, de l¿incapacité d¿accéder les TICs à tous les niveaux, et de la promotion des autres cultures étrangères dominantes.Finalement, l¿auteur explique que la stratégie culturelle du pays n¿a pas exploité suffisamment le potentiel des TIC afin de réaliser ces objectives, et donc fait quelques recommandations à cette fin.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt's time to dance, to love, to be free...'Mesmerising' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other'Fabulous' MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet'Beautiful' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open WaterYamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes. Yamaye meets Moose, who she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape.After their relationship is brutally cut short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that leads her to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.***A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NOVEL AND GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2023***'A wonderfully literary, musical and original novel about a culture and era that rarely makes the pages of fiction' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Scorching... We follow Yamaye through love, loss and peril, as she chases her dreams and connects with her heritage' GUARDIAN'Ambitious, atmospheric... A novel of passion and anger' SUNDAY TIMES'A rich and rhythmic story about love and music' I

An intelligent, passionate, compelling romance set between England and Jamaica, imbued with picturesque Caribbean sun, sand, and sea descriptions.‘I dream you last night.’ Mother Cynthy’s smile, like her eyes, courted mischief. ‘Dream you were swimming with fishes. This can mean only one thing...’The Meadows, Jamaica. Beautiful young Kat Lewis, artist and daughter of the community, has always wanted a child. When Mother Cynthy, the town herbalist, sees Kat swimming with fishes in a dream, the vision can only mean one thing: Kat will soon be a mother.Tall, handsome Thornton "Ben" Benjamin, a successful Londoner in the real estate business, is on a business trip to The Meadows when he spots Kat on the beach. Despite the warning signs in his head, he is unable to resist. He pursues her and their initial friendship soon develops into a passionate romance.But secrets remain untold between them: Kat is suffering from a chronic illness and Ben has a secret life back home. Will their love survive those revelations, and will Ben be the man to make Kat's dream come true?Dark, suspenseful, and romantic. A page-turning love affair set against the rich backdrop of Jamaica, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Tia Williams and Adele Parks.