Several books of fiction, non-fiction, poems and short stories were launched at the National Park yesterday.
The books were: The Cost of Sugar by Cynthia McLeod (Suriname), Trinidad Noir by Liza-Allen Agostini (Trinidad), A Troubled Dream, An Introduction to Theatre Arts, and The West Indian by Jacques Compton (St Lucia), VI Callaloo, by British Virgin Islands Poets, Taste of Carifesta by the Culinary Arts (Guyana), Esteem by Stephanie Bowry, and Casas de las Americas 50th Anniversary Celebration (Cuba).
Four books by authors from St Vincent and the Grenadines were also launched and these include Ruler in Hiroona by G.C.H Thomas, Digging for Gold and other Short Stories, by Edgar Adams, Slavery, Law and Society in the British Windward Islands 1763-1823 – A comparative Study by Bernard Marshall and My Homeland by Storm Halbich.
Halbich is the youngest of the lot, as he is only eight years old. Several other books are to be launched in the coming days.
