Bajan Baby What Do You See will captivate young readers as they go on a colourful Barbadian adventure with Bajan Baby- a curious little girl who explores the scenery, cuisine and culture of her country Barbados. Children from birth to 8 will enjoy reading with Bajan Baby.

In Plenty and in Time of Need uses music and performance as sites of analysis for the competing ideals and realities of Barbadian national culture. The book demonstrates complex relations between national, gendered, and sexual identities in Barbados, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage.

The ultimate Bajan handbook, and a remarkably refreshing and fun dive into the the intricacies of Barbadian vernacular by a treasured daughter of the soil. Mahalia is uniquely able to share the most crucial advice and instruction, for anyone wishing to seamlessly assimilate into Bajan culture. It's the only guide you need to connect more closely with Barbados and the Barbadian people, through language. The book also successfully holds a mirror up to native speakers of Bajan dialect, reminding them of the remarkably rich and unique nature of their everyday interaction, and does it in the most delightful and nostalgic way.

This book should serve to assist those who find themselves under pressure when making the transition from dialect to standard English. It is not intended to be a comprehensive approach to grammar. The focus is on key areas, whch the writer feels are critical to ensuring a satisfactory level of verbal communication.

WINNER of the Amazon First Novel Award Finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award Finalist for OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Shortlisted for the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Awards How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the past when the truth has been forgotten? Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father’s death at the hands of his mother and his older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself—or his family’s secrets. Seventeen years later, Iapetus’s son, the stoic Atlas, lives in a loveless house, under the care of his uncle, Cronus, and in the shadow of his charismatic cousin Z. Knowing little about the tragic circumstances of his father’s life, Atlas must choose between his desire to flee the island and his loyalty to the uncle who raised him. Time passes. Atlas’s daughter, Calypso, is a beautiful and wilful teenager who is desperate to avoid being trapped in a life of drudgery at her uncle Z’s hotel. When she falls dangerously in love with a visiting real estate developer, she finds herself entangled in her uncle’s shady dealings, a pawn in the games of the powerful men around her. It is now 2019. Calypso’s son, Nautilus, is on a path of self-destruction as he grapples with his fatherless condition, his mixed-race identity and his complicated feelings of attraction towards his best friend, Daniel. Then one night, after making an impulsive decision, Nautilus finds himself exiled to Canada. The Island of Forgetting is an intimate saga spanning four generations of one family who run a beachfront hotel. Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, this is a novel about the echo of deep—and sometimes tragic—love and the ways a family’s past can haunt its future.

Bajan is an English base dialect/creole Language spoken by Barbadians at home and across the diasporas. It evolved in the early years of colonization when the English land owners forces the African slaves to speak the English language instead of their native language. Bajan Dialect is widely spoken across the island by the majority of the population, although English is considered the standard language in print and business. There are no fixed rules to Bajan language, this book gives and explains the patterns that are easy to follow and learning.

In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring