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The hotel will stock LITERARY FESTIVALS.
Antigua hosts an Interna-
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10 copies of 20 titles in
the appropriately-named tional Literary Festival. This
“Borrow a Penguin” library. year it will be staged at the
They will include modern Jolly Beach Resort on Novem-
classics such as White Teeth ber 6-8, featuring three
by Zadie Frost and other days of workshops, author
modern titles such as Devil readings and book signings.
May Care by Sebastian Faulks.
Guests will be able to help themselves Montserrat plans to hold its first literary
to whichever read appeals most and then festival this winter. The Alliouagana Festival
compare notes with fellow bookworms at of the Word on November 13-15 will include
the hotel’s weekly poolside get-togethers presentations, storytelling under the stars and
organised by Verandah’s hosts. literary workshops.
The resort expects these get-togethers to
evolve into more of a social gathering, There is an annual Calabash International
likely to attract single travellers and friends Literary Festival on Jamaica’s south coast at
travelling together rather than couples. the rustic resort of Jake’s. This year’s theme Poet and playwright Derek Walcott, who
And Verandah’s owner, Elite Island was Peace and Love. won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992,
Resorts, plans to expand the concept to sister was born in St Lucia and lives in Trinidad,
Antiguan property Galley Bay. The hotel In Grand Cayman, Florida bookstore Books & while Dominica was the birthplace of Jean
group teamed up with Penguin for a Books holds regular reader and writer events, Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
promotion at the new Westfield Shopping while the International Visiting Author Series
Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush last hosts various writers every month. Jamaica was the adopted home of James
month where it gave away discounts and a Bond author Ian Fleming, while Noel
free holiday at the Verandah Resort. The first annual Cayman Islands Children’s Coward lived there until his death in 1973.
Meanwhile, Rex Resorts is also planning Books Festival took place at Books & Books last
to launch a book club in August at its November and another is planned this winter. Ernest Hemingway spent much of his
Caribbean resorts. Books will be provided for Another popular event is Gimistory – a five-day life in Cuba and you can visit his house
guests to read during their stay. Holidaymak- storytelling bonanza held under the auspices (pictured) near Havana. Authors Dick
ers can also donate any books they no longer of the cultural Cayfest festival every April. Francis and John Grisham both have
need to the club and will be able to leave homes in Grand Cayman.
book reviews on a dedicated web page.
Rex Resorts will recommend a book of the In Bermuda, visitors can follow in the
month and plans to work with different footsteps of American author Mark Twain
publishers to offer book prizes. on historical walking tours.
For the launch, it has teamed up with
publishers Headline and Sackville Travel to At Couples Resorts in Jamaica, loved-up
give away a holiday to the Hawksbill by Rex guests can feature in their very own,
Resorts property in Antigua in a competition personalised romance novel, created by
being promoted on the cover of the new using their names and personal details in
Louise Bagshawe book Passion. a story about finding love in Ocho Rios.
Rex Resorts will also give away signed
copies of Passion to 10 agents who make the Travellers simply wanting to relax with a
most Rex bookings in July and August. good read can chill out in the Whispers
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verandahresortandspa.com Author and actor Roscoe Orman, who starred in Sesame Street for many room at St Lucia’s Calabash Cove Resort.
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rexpertsonline.com years, signs autographs at the Antigua & Barbuda Literary Festival
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