St Lucia / Special Interests / Recommended reading

St Lucia is the home of a Nobel laureate for literature, Sir Derek Walcott. He is the author of a number of works of poetry including Omeros and The Bounty , and his play Odyssey a Stage Version.

Other St Lucian novels to look out for include The Lights on the Hill by Garth St Omer. If you are interested in a historical view of St Lucia then you might be able to track down St Lucia Diary, by Lt J H Caddy, a military man who was posted to the island in the 1700s. Other old-time stories are recorded in St Lucia, Tours and Tales by Harriet Durham and Florence Lewisohn, which was in print not long ago.

For a photographic journey around St Lucia do have a look at Jenny Palmer's St Lucia: Portrait of an Island (Macmillan Caribbean). There is an introduction by John Robert Lee, one of the island's most respected poets, and quotes from Nobel Prize winner Sir Derek Walcott. Jenny has also published work on The Cayman Islands and Saint Kitts.