Welcome to Papillote Press.

After our first two books, The Gardens of Dominica, and It Falls Into Place (the short stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey), two new publications continue to show that books from the Caribbean island of Dominica are as eclectic and surprising as the island itself.

First comes Yet We Survive - The Kalinago People of Dominica: Our Lives in Words and Pictures. Here, the Kalinago people (or Carib people) of Dominica describe and illustrate their own lives. Yet We Survive is edited by Mary Walters, a Scottish teacher who worked with a group of young Kalinagos on a project to record their culture: work and play, shopping, schools, religion, the differences between women's and men's lives. The result is this exceptional book.

Whether you are a teacher (the book comes with teachers' notes, also available by email from pollyp@globalnet.co.uk), or a student, or just someone interested in Dominica or indigenous peoples, we hope you will enjoy it. We are publishing the book with Ian Randle Publishers of Jamaica (so if you are in the Caribbean or North America, please order it directly from www.ianrandlepublishers.com).

Our second book for 2007 is Most Wanted: Street Stories from the Caribbean by Christborne Shillingford, a Dominican writer who has created a troublesome anti-hero who gets into scrapes both as an amateur private detective and as an inquisitive citizen. There are escapes from drug dens, bent policemen, ghosts, disdainful girlfriends and crazy dogs in these anarchic adventures. It's a modern, irreverent look straight from the streets. You mad? As Shillingford might say.

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