The Book Yard Book Shelf

Book Review • Tell the Wolves I’m Home – Carol Rifka Brunt

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ccasionally when people enter the bookYard I ask them about what journey they are on, about themselves and their book… Read More

7 years ago

I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ctober 11 is designated by the United Nations as the International Day of the Girl. Emma Watson, UN Goodwill Ambassador… Read More

7 years ago

Lapses And Infelicities – A Review by McDonald Dixon

[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ick Wayne’s eclectic prose meanders throughout 600 pages of this book, reminiscent of the old road from Castries to Vieux… Read More

7 years ago

The Day the Crayons Came Home

[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very kid loves to colour so you can just imagine how perturbed child would be if one day his… Read More

7 years ago

Book review • Book review ~ The Tail of Emily Windsnap – Liz Kessler

Children’s stories are magical; they have the ability to capture young mind and transport it to a world that… Read More

7 years ago

Book Review • Book Review ~ Enticing Short Stories by Gyanchand Rayman – An anthology of Caribbean short stories

Gyanchand Rayman was born in Guyana, has lived in many Caribbean islands and currently resides in Saint Lucia. According to… Read More

7 years ago

Book Launch at The bookYard

On Friday 24th June The bookYard at Star Publishing was the venue for another book launch: Against The Odds -… Read More

7 years ago

Book Review • Book Review ~ The Paper Magician – Charlie N. Holmberg

Charlie N. Holmberg’s The Paper Magician is the perfect summer read. Set in the late 1800s in England, the story… Read More

7 years ago

Book review • Book review ~ Absolutely True Lies by Rachel Stuhler

After guiltily judging the book by its cover and hesitating to read it, I finally learnt that Absolutely True Lies… Read More

7 years ago

Book review • Book review ~ The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

I picked up this book knowing nothing except that I had heard only formidable remarks about it. Therefore, I was… Read More

7 years ago

Book review • Book review ~ The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were the first white and female abolitionists from their homeland in Charleston, South Carolina. According to… Read More

7 years ago

Honouring Virginia Alexander, 4 Decades of Dance

On Sunday 1st May, many people who appreciate art and culture gathered at the National Cultural Centre. There, the Cultural… Read More

7 years ago

The Fault in Our Stars

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her… Read More

7 years ago

Paper Towns

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like ninja and plotting an ingenious… Read More

7 years ago

Supernatural Hero

Andy is the nerd everyone makes fun of. He's really skinny, wears glasses and talks to himself, but he falls… Read More

7 years ago

Book review • Book review ~ Book Of A Lifetime: A Bend in The River, By V. S. Naipaul

A Bend in the River’ was published when Naipaul was nearly 50. One of the greatest novels about the process… Read More

7 years ago

’Til the Well Runs Dry

The New York Times Sunday Book Review Shortlist Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2015 Honor Book in Fiction… Read More

7 years ago

Dog-Heart

Told in two voices, educated Jamaican English and the nation-language of the people, this dramatic novel tells the story of… Read More

7 years ago

Huracan

In the wake of her mother's death, Leigh McCaulay returns to Jamaica after fifteen years away in New York to… Read More

7 years ago

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