... The name of Alan Ross needs no introduction to followers of cricket or to those who enjoy good English prose. THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN (Hamish Hamilton. 21s.) will please both groups. Mr. Ross records the M.C.C. tour of the West Indies last winter. There are ...

... Tracy, is a wild, passionately irreverent and enormously un righteous (according to current In-Attitudes) career round the Caribbean with Henry Lamb, a darling young Candide who becomes involved in any amount of trouble through visiting the locale as the ...

... greatest authority and exploited to the full. SEASON OF ADVENTURE (Michael Joseph. 21s.) is Mr. George Lamming's novel about a Caribbean island which has achieved the independence of a republican state and is going through the inevitable pangs of readjust ment ...

... houses of Brooklyn and writes about them in this unusual and often touching book. Her heroine is a brown girl who left her Caribbean island to come to New York and it is of her dreams, struggles and disillu sion, as well as of her courage, that Mrs. Marshall ...

... ever written. POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE (Heinemann. 18s.) is wholly unpretentious and very, very funny. It is the story of a Caribbean island to which the Queen and Prince Philip might, fictionally, be paying a visit and, because of this looming honour, the ...

... success and the money, the author has left his job in an uncle's seed business and accepted an assign ment to visit the Caribbean for a new periodi cal and to write a series of fearless articles for them on his findings. Now Henry Lamb, besides being ...

... British Guiana and the four characters who carry t plot are two married couples, young and, with o exception, coming to a Caribbean country for the fi time. The complications are partly racial but, for a mu greater part, emotional, and the whole story is ...