Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Books set in Guyana:


The Murderer by Roy Heath
Counting House by David Dabydeen
Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo
The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville
The Sly Company of People Who Care: A Novel by Rahul Bhattacharya
The Shadow Bride by Roy Heath
Slave Song by David Dabydeen
Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
The Ministry Of Hope by Roy Heath
The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories by Jan R. Carew
Across Three Continents: An Indo-Guyanese Family Experience by Joseph S. Persaud
Three Singles to Adventure: An Expedition to Guyana by Gerald Durrell
Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton
Dear People: Remembering Jonestown by Denice Stephenson
The Guyana Quartet by Wilson Harris
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story by Julia Scheeres
Wilson Harris by Wilson Harris
Shape-shifter by Pauline Melville
Peacocks Dancing by Sharon Maas
The Ghost of Memory by Wilson Harris
Disappearance by David Dabydeen (Set mostly in UK)
Ninety-two Days: A Journey in Guiana and Brazil, 1932 by Evelyn Waugh
Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy
Mangoes and Bullets: Selected and New Poems 1972-84 by John Agard
Drums of My Flesh: A Novel by Cyril Dabydeen
Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas
Sunlight on Sweet Water by Beryl Gilroy
The Four Banks of the River of Space by Wilson Harris
The Last English Plantation by Jan Lo Shinebourne
The Godmother and Other Stories by Jan Lo Shinebourne
Chinese Women by Jan Lo Shinebourne
The Discovery of the Large Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana by Walter Raleigh
The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana by Catherine H. Thrash
Stains on My Name War in My Veins by Brackette F. Williams
Guyana Boy by Peter Lauchmonen Kempadoo
The Coloured Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers by Brenda C. Doharris
Kwaku: Or the Man Who Could Not Keep His Mouth Shut : A NovelRoy Heath
The Wizard Swami by Cyril Dabydeen
Timepiece by Janice Shinebourne
Lutchmee and Dilloo: A Study of West Indian Life by Edward Jenkins
Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson

Not sure if this is the right place or comment, but...

Just wanted to let you know that my novel Of Marriageable Age is coming out as an ebook in February or March 2014.

It is set in mostly in Guyana and India, with a little bit of England thrown in! Just in case anyone feels like visiting...

The old cover is no longer! Here is the new edition:

Sharon wrote: "Not sure if this is the right place or comment, but...

Just wanted to let you know that my novel Of Marriageable Age is coming out as an ebook in February or March 2014.

It is set i..."

Thanks, Sharon!

Children of Paradise: A Novel by Fred D'Aguiar

Edgar Mittelholzer is an icon of Guyanese literature; so I'll add him and his books! He's perhaps best known for the Kaywana trilogy, Children of Kawwana, Kaywana Blood and Kaywana Stock.





which chronicles th history of British Guiana right from the time of the first Dutch settlers.

However, he gets more critical appraise for his other books, which are part of the canon of Caribbean literature :

A Morning at the Office
Corentyne Thunder
My Bones And My Flute
The Life and Death of Sylvia

and others.
Then there's this book about him, written by my cousin, Dr Juanita Cox:
In the Eye of the Storm: Edgar Mittelholzer 1909�2009: Critical Perspectives

You might be interested in Guises of Guyana - a poetry & photography travelogue published in mid 2013. One of the poems from the book - 'Mighty Kaieteur' - was featured in 'Explore Guyana 2014' - one of the country's official tourism publications, released at the World Travel Market Fair in London.

My new novel, The Small Fortune of Dorothea Quint, is now avaialble for pre-order on Amazon. It will be published January 16th 2015.


Set in Guyana and UK!

V.S.Naipaul's "The Middle Passage" is partly set in Guyana.

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox: Slavery, forbidden love and tragedy by Sharon Maas

She Walks in Gold Dust by Octavia McKenzie

More books set in Guyana:


All Decent Animals by Oonya Kempadoo
The Armstrong Trilogy by Roy A.K. Heath
Assignment in Guiana by George Harmon Coxe
Bethany Bettany by Fred D'Aguiar
Black Midas by Jan Carew
Bloodlines by Fred D'Aguiar
Boy-Sandwich by Beryl Gilroy
Bush-Pilot in Diamond Country by Donald Haack

Diane wrote: "Books set in Guyana:


The Murderer by Roy Heath
Counting House by [author:David Dabyde..."

Hello! I see a few of my books are listed here! However:

Peacocks Dancing is long out of print, and I would advise you, no, beg you not to read a second hand copy.
This book has been now rewritten (I was under publisher pressure to set part of it in India!) and is now rewritten in two parts.
One part, the India part, is now published as The Lost Daughter of India, and its setting is Mumbai. Here is the goodreads link: The Lost Daughter of India
The Guyana part of the book is The Far Away Girl: The Far Away Girl

Of Marriageable Age has been re-published with a new cover:
Of Marriageable Age

My other Guyana books are as follows:

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox:

The Sugar Planter's Daughter:

The Sugar Planter's Daughter

The Girl from the Sugar Plantation



The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q|

My latest novel, The Far Away Girl, is set in Guyana. It's the coming-of-age story of a young girl who is orphaned at birth and it reaised by a somewhat irresponsible father.

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