Art & Leisure

Digicel Founder and chairman, Denis O'Brien, was last Tuesday the guest speaker at the launch of Special Olympics Jamaica's book, The Journey.

Valentine's Day took on a whole new meaning at Mountain View Primary School last Monday as employees from National Commercial Bank (NCB) Cross Roads, Windward Road and Matilda's Corner branches visited the school to spend time treating students to reading sessions as well as pampering them with NCB-branded cupcakes.

Yolanda Mittoo has written a very engaging book on her childhood memories of life in Falmouth, the capital of Trelawny.

Egypt is eternal; Cairo, the only place in the world beyond all my expectations, more ethereal than anything I'd imagined. To stand in the interior darkness of a Pharaoh's burial tomb inside a great pyramid is an awesome experience which transports one beyond all domestic reality, like the heartbeat of the sea, wave after wave.

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Author Ben Tarnoff digs deep into the history of such left-handed pursuits in Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters. While not quite delivering the wickedness and surprises essential to a ripping yarn, Tarnoff provides a colourful tale...

The past is a terrible thing in Urban Waite's first novel, a crime thriller that will please those who prefer their noirs straightforward and gritty with a minimum of philosophising.

Abeng Press, a newly established publishing imprint, has issued it's first title, the digital edition of B. Richard Nicholson's Hold It Right There, Mister Preacher!, a critique of biblical discourse, especially within his Seventh-day Adventist milieu.

The nights are cold, lonely and filled with recapturing nightmares. Shame covers me, then turns into fear. As I become afraid to share this deadly disease, afraid of what people will think of me.

The tenement house at Bird Street was a long, unattractive row of rooms rambling dejectedly across the yard.The single kitchen, which was common to all tenants, was where the women met to cook...

Turning piles of hardened clay into beautiful works of art, using little more than pieces of wood, a keen eye and well-trained hands.

The composition books she writes in are the same ones elementary school kids use - the black-and-white bound ones with the white ruled pages and wide lines. She has so many notebooks filled with words, and she fills more each day.