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Marina is plagued by the "whys" of existence. Can a dusty old book written by a dwarf with colonial links to Trinidad in the old days, help her any?Malik has done a terrible thing and he'll never know why. Nor will he ever know why the child, Nicholas, behaves oddly towards him.From Barbados to Trinidad to Europe to Jamaica to Puerto Rico and back to Barbados, Marina finds that people in the land of the border countries everywhere, are no different, not really. They can't be. Not until they understand and suffer through the "whys" they never find answers to. Perhaps, in the end, Marina does, or, why do the right thing?

A novel charting familial and other relationships that are supported and strained by the fact of living, set in the fictional Caribbean island of Wui, in which lives float past, leaving behind a fog of whispers.

A haunting tale of a daughter and her mother as they struggle for survival in an island that harbours the good, the bad and the darkness behind appearances. Set in Trinidad, eighteen-year-old Radica works hard at a menial job to support herself and her emotionally damaged mother. She meets a foreigner during the Carnival season when her simple life collides with the cultural forces that strive to maintain the ignorance of the past. A story combining social history, romantic adventure and the natural love that exists between mother and daughter.

Literary fiction exploring the provocative theme of Slavery. "Through Tinko's Eyes" is set in Barbados, during the colonial period-early nineteenth century. It follows the experiences of Tinko, a young boy from West Africa, a fictional character, kidnapped during a village raid in his homeland and brought to Barbados on a slave ship where he's sold into Slavery at the age of sixteen, and made to work as a domestic on a sugar plantation. The plantation is a fictional one, Carrington's, adjacent to Bayley's Plantation in St. Philip, where as a historical fact, in 1816, the longest slave revolt in Barbados against plantation owners was initiated under the command of Bussa, a slave and head-ranger at Bayley's who was killed in battle, and who continues to be a prominent figure in the folk memory of Barbadians. Because of the proximity of Bayley's to the estate Tinko is taken to, Tinko meets Bussa and whatever transpires regarding Bussa's planned revolt is seen indirectly through Tinko's eyes. While "Through Tinko's Eyes" may be interpreted as an indictment of slavery in the Caribbean and in general, man's inhumanity to man, at the same time, in depicting the transitional phase of Tinko's life from being a free person in Africa to his subjugation as a slave in Barbados, the novel continues to illumine existentialist themes that appear in most of the author's works. The novel is not intended as a historical document and nothing should be taken as fact. It is an imaginary story created out of a love for fiction writing, but perhaps at a deeper level, invented to record examples of man's cruelty to man, so that a thing as abominable as slavery, might never be forgotten. Remembrance of this abomination, sanctioned by law as it then was, can potentially act as a safeguard for ensuring that it never happens again. It is to be noted that the novel is not an exposition of Bussa's life and achievements but rather, it stands as a fictional account of what might have been the experiences of a young boy, like Tinko, unwittingly caught up in the horrors of slavery in a land so very far away from home.

Lost at sea following a cruise ship disaster, two old friends, June and Joy, gain entry into the lost city of Atlantis. After a period of recovery and harmonious living amongst Atlanteans, given the choice and through perceived clarity of vision, one makes up her mind to remain while the other chooses to return home. But, do their decisions to control their lives have anything to do with reality?

Set in the imaginary Caribbean island of Wui, a woman, who was a victim of crime, moves on. From scene to scene, incident to incident, the human condition continues to bewilder her.This is a sequel to Wuinatti, Wuinacci.

A story about a fictional novelist, Pedro Rodriguez, who's a well loved international bestselling author, working on his new book. That new book is about a fictional bestselling author visiting Lopinot Valley for the first time and finding quite by accident a historical document which speaks to the experiences of an Indian Guru and villagers in an Indian province during the time of British colonial presence in India. As Pedro Rodriguez works on his new book relaying through his Guru, "spiritual" teachings to his readers, he also daily posts on his blog assorted "words of wisdom" for his millions of fans worldwide to read and comment upon, as the tension-filled air between him and his wife, Greta, gets hotter and hotter. Greta, his third wife, after some five years of marriage, comes to believe that Pedro's books sell well because of his celebrity status following the publication of his first bestselling novel forty years ago and not necessarily because his later books contain any real literary merit. As the novel progresses, their relationship takes on new shades of meaning as Greta begins to resist Pedro's morbid obsession with his computer, his writing and his fans, as well as his "wisdom". On one level, "The Count of Lopinot" might be viewed as something of a symposium in contrasts, accentuating in part the greatest symbol of our twenty-first century civilization (through Pedro's use of the internet to court his millions of fans) and the different takes people can have on what love, virtue, free will and wisdom really mean. Does Pedro's "wisdom" contain intrinsic value or does Greta's? Perhaps this kind of novel might tempt would-be readers to clarify and define their own understanding of certain issues that crop up in our everyday lives-in and outside of relationships, in and outside of spirituality, in and outside of "true" spirituality possessed by human creatures.

Literary fiction set in the imaginary Caribbean island of Wui. A woman, caught up in the usual sufferings of life, recalls beautiful music and song from what she perceives to be a past life.

Four stories of vague imaginations in existentialist philosophy. In the first story, Becca Orchard, retired from life, encounters a patient she deems a "prophet" on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital. The account of what transpires following this encounter weaves a tale of how people cope with their fate. In the second, two friends grow apart when one meets a woman he decides he wants to spend the rest of his life with. The complexities of life and its struggles decide the fate of all three in a world in which money rules, divorcing inevitably hollow men from their principles. The third is a piece of realist fiction dramatizing social interactions while the fourth story depicts the futile attempt of an aging widower to find love again, the world's paranoia concerning terrorist threats and the absurd lack of cosmic status of man's justice.

Literary fiction set in the imaginary Caribbean island of Wui.The story of how a strong woman married, and divorced, a greedy man.