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Post any books set in Guyana here.

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

Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson

Lutchmee and Dilloo: A Study of West Indian Life by Edward Jenkins

The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) by James & Lance Morcan

B.G. Bhagee: Memories of a Colonial Childhood by Philippa Perry

My father, Reuben Lachmansingh, just published his first novel based on the Guyanese indentured labourer experience. He did over eight years of research including visiting his ancestral home in Bihar India. You can read more about, including excerpts from, it on this site and it's available for sale on Amazon.com

http://www.adipatthesangam.com

In this novel, you are swept away and relive the experiences of Raja through the sad times and the happy times. You forget that you are reading and that's special.

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.

Please add my book The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q to the list! It was published last January, and is set in Guyana.

A new book of mine is coming out on October 1st; it's called The Secret Life of Winnie Cox, also set in Guyana.

I'd like to mention again that Guyana is not in Latin America, and I had a hard time finding it the first time I came to this group!

Guyana is considered part of the Caribbean, even though it is on the mainland of South America. We speak English, and are politically, economically, historically, culturally totally West Indians, and not at all Latin. No-one speaks Spanish, which is the definition of a Latin country! So strictly speaking it is South America, not Latin America. But I guess you can't rename the group,. as that would exclude the Central American nations. Oh well.

It's just a pity that we are always misplaced -- most people think we are in Africa!

My new book is not yet on Goodreads, but it IS in AMazon for pre-order. I'll post again as soon as it is on GR. It is historical fiction, set in 1910, on a sugar plantation in British Guiana.

Kipling Plass

A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl - Contemporary/Historical Fiction by Nanda Reddy

Children of Paradise