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Special Reading Event – Diana McCaulay’s Huracan
On Thursday, September 13, author Diana McCaulay will be doing a special reading of her newest novel “Huracan” at the Red Bones Blues Cafe. Huracan is a fictional novel with a contemporary heroine, which draws on elements of McCaulay’s family history and events in 18th century Jamaica, to depict a story of Caribbean family and [...]
Continue reading...Diana McCaulay Launches New Book – Huracan – On July 13
Sunday, July 1, 2012
On July 13, 2012 (at 6:30 p.m.), award-winning author Diana McCaulay will launch her new book, Huracan, at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge @ The University of the West Indies Mona Campus. It is just McCaulay’s second novel, her first being the bestselling, ‘Dog-Heart‘. Huracan is “A sharp-eyed, salty-sweet mix of family history and historical fiction [...]
Continue reading...Review Of Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart
Friday, January 21, 2011
Title: Dog-Heart Author: Diana McCaulay Publisher: Peepal Trees Press, 2010. 242 pages. Reviewed by: Mary Hanna (via Jamaica Observer newspaper) Buy Dog-Heart online @Amazon “Listen. So the little boy goes over and picks up one of the starfish and puts it in the sea. But there are thousands of them and the father says to [...]
Continue reading...Dog-Heart Book Reading & Signing – Montego Bay
Monday, July 12, 2010
Jamaican writer, newspaper columnist and environmental activist, Diana McCaulay will be reading from her book, Dog-Heart (Peepal Tree Press, 2010) on Saturday, July 17, 2010 at Bookland Montego Bay (34 Union Street) at 2:00 p.m. Ms. McCaulay has lived her entire life in Jamaica and engaged in a range of occupations – secretary, insurance executive, [...]
Continue reading...Book Review – Dog-Heart By Diana McCaulay
Sunday, June 20, 2010
In today’s Sunday Gleaner, Mel Cooke has reviewed Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart. “The subject matter of Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart is overly familiar in the fiction of novels, the flow of verse, and the read-and-toss of newsprint. In her debut novel, McCaulay addresses the Jamaican social divide, which is especially striking in the urban centres (in Dog-Heart [...]
Continue reading...Review Of Diana McCaulay’s Dog-Heart
Monday, April 19, 2010
Title: Dog-Heart Author: Diana McCaulay Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, UK. 241 pages Reviewer: Ralph Thompson My admiration for Diana McCaulay’s debut novel, Dog-Heart, is unbounded. She deals with the ancient “Good Samaritan” theme in a Jamaican context with new insight, poise and compassion. Sahara Longmore, a middle-class ‘browning’, is approached by a child beggar named [...]
Continue reading...Dog-Heart – Diana McCaulay
Monday, March 29, 2010
Environmental activist and newspaper columnist, Diana McCaulay, recently released her debut novel: Dog-Heart. Dog-Heart is a novel about race and class, about a well-intentioned middle class woman – Sahara Longmore – and Dexter, the inner-city boy she takes under her wing. It’s a good book; it is actually the winner of the 2008 Jamaica Cultural [...]
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
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