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Cassie P Caribbean Pi
Cecil Browne
Novel, 2019
A Vincentian-written detective story that follows a Caribbean private investigator through local island life, speech and social tensions.
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Two books by writers from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, set there, that give a real sense of the place: Cassie P Caribbean Pi and Riff : The Shake Keane Story.
Very little writing from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is easy to find in English, and its best-known histories date from colonial times. The country is small, with around 100,000 people, and English is its official language, with a Creole spoken in everyday life. The Garifuna, or Black Caribs, who resisted British rule until many were deported to Central America in 1797, are a recurring subject in writing about its past.
Charles Shephard's An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent, published in the early nineteenth century, is a detailed history covering the island's Carib inhabitants, colonisation and plantations, and the 1812 eruption of the Soufrière volcano in the north of the main island.
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A Vincentian-written detective story that follows a Caribbean private investigator through local island life, speech and social tensions.
Philip Nanton, a fellow Vincentian, tells the restless life of Shake Keane, the St Vincent-born trumpeter and poet who helped shape London's free-form jazz scene in the 1950s and 60s, and whose return home was soured by island politics.
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