Audio Books

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2005-2006 Audio Books Catalogue
Our first series of audio books by Caribbean authors was completed in July 2006, and we're hoping to produce many more. We welcome your feedback on these productions.

Skin Folk - A Collection of Short Stories by Nalo Hopkinson
Skin Folk is a vibrant collection of short fiction that ranges from Trinidad to Toronto, from fantastic folklore to frightening futures, from houses of deadly haunts to realms of dark sexuality. With these tales Nalo Hopkinson explores the surface of modern existence and delves under the skin of eternal legends.
"Rollicking, sensual...Required reading...[from] one of science fiction's most inventive and brilliant writers." – The New York Post

The Swinging Bridge - A Novel by Ramabai Espinet
When Mona returns to Trinidad to reclaim her family’s land, she must confront the hidden secrets of a winding personal history begun on the Indian continent almost two centuries ago. Steeped in the rhythms and lyrical lilt of Caribbean life, this exquisite novel from Ramabai Espinet explores the Indo-Caribbean immigrant experience with compassion and humour.

This Body - A Novel by Tessa McWatt
After the death of her sister, Victoria becomes the guardian of her 8 year-old nephew Derek. These two strangers struggle to connect, despite individual concerns: Victoria is still grieving a lost love; Derek is preoccupied with finding his unknown father. Moving evocatively between London, Toronto, and Guyana, This Body is enriched by recipes, letters, and legends, resulting in an astonishingly wise novel about love in a world cross-cut by old wounds.

Gardening In The Tropics - Poems by Olive Senior

Gardening In the Tropics is a collection of poetry that digs deep into the land, culture, and history of the Caribbean, and stirs up thorny issues such as colour consciousness, class-consciousness, and racism. Olive Senior is at once satirical and profound, wry and heartbreaking, allowing language to blossom in refreshing and wonderful ways.


My Mother's Last Dance - A Collection Of Poems by Honor Ford Smith
In this powerful, humourous, and tremendously moving collection of poems, Honor Ford Smith weaves together a commemorative work: a tribute to her Mother’s life and death and a celebration of her legacy as Jamaica’s first “coloured” doctor. With poems that span four generations and two continents, My Mother’s Last dance is a graceful and personal meditation of loss, memory and hope.

Audio Book Producer: Leonie Forbes
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, actor and broadcaster Leonie Forbes has worked in the dramatic and visual arts for many decades, and played lead roles a host of stage, television and film productions.The wide-ranging talents of Jamaica's First Lady of Theatre and Film, Leonie Forbes, alias 'Miss Lee', have attracted both national and international recognition. She has graced the silver screens in major Hollywood movies and is fondly remembered in Jamaica for her smooth and silky voice as a radio broadcaster and TV hostess. Her list of stage productions includes Old Story Time, Arawak Gold, Champagne and Sky Juice, Whiplash, The Rope and the Cross, and Smile Orange. Her film and television credits include Shattered Image, Milk and Honey, Going to Extremes, The Orchid House, Passion and Paradise, Club Paradise, What My Mother Told Me, and Children of Babylon. She also starred in the Caribbean-Canadian sitcom Lord Have Mercy, for which she was nominated for a Gemini Award in Canada in the category of Best Actress in a Comedy or Drama.

Sound Recordist and Composer: Mauri Hall

Mauri has been doing music since the age of seven, singing and song writing, as well as composing. He has produced many songs for radio in Trinidad and Tobago, working with artists such as Bunji Garlin and 3 Canal. He has composed for Literature Alive, a 13-part documentry series which aired on Bravo! in late 2005 for Leda Serene Films. Mauri has composed for theatre productions such as A Winter Tale (Leda Serene/Caribbean Tales) and is also working on the music for a feature film version of A Winter Tale. He is also an audio engineer, holding a diploma in recording engineering from Recording Arts Canada and has worked professionally as an audio engineer since 2000.

Sound Editor and Mixer: Kevin Risk Kevin Risk graduated from theatre school at York University in 2000 and completed his MA at the Drama Centre at the University of Toronto in May of 2006. He has appeared in various stage productions, including Modern Ritual (A Beautiful Lie/David Goyette), Titus Andronicus (Hart House Theatre), The Paradise Lust Romance Series and Crime and Etiquette (Triple Take Productions). Kevin recently starred in Triple Take’s feature film Space Zombies: 13 Months of Brain-Spinning Mayhem! He was also Director of Photography, Sound Designer/Editor and Special Effects Editor for this film, which is airing on SPACE and Drive-In Classics. Kevin was one of the editors for Fairy Tale II (airing on OUTtv) and Literature Alive (airing on Bravo!) and was also Sound Editor for a series of audio books as well as five 15-minute documentaries airing on CBC Radio (for Leda Serene Films and Caribbean Tales). Kevin has written a number of stage plays, radio plays and film scripts.