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Jan 2026 Caribbean Bestsellers 🏡🧡 1. Beyond Borders, by Arthur Lok Jack 2. The Village of One, by Richard Charan 3. Ibis, by Justin Haynes 4. Paradise Once, by Olive Senior 5. Pleasantview, by Celeste Mohammed
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We have a new WhatsApp contact: (868) 305-4159 🧡 As always, you can reach us via 628-3197 or info@paperbasedbookshop.com
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Meet our new website: paperbasedbookshop.com. It’s the bookshop you love—now just a click away 🖥️📱 🏡 Shop all our books, games, CDs, toys and other keepsakes from the comfort of anywhere.
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💳 Online payment is available through our secure payment processor with credit cards, debit cards or via direct bank transfer (with local 🇹🇹 banks only). 🚚 Have your purchases delivered with TTPost (fee applicable) or pick up in-store at the Bookshop, for free.
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For orders beyond Trinidad & Tobago, please contact the store. ✏ @thewriterscentre illustration done by @DPluthero
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Happy New Year! 🧡🥂 Check out what you read in 2025!
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Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre! 🗣 Arthur Lok Jack, Beyond Borders 👪Family Reading Circle 🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club ☕Books & Brews, Sarah Beckett 📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club 📚BYOBB Social: Che Lovelace 📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair #bocas2026
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Day One of Paper Based Bookshop’s 12 Days of Christmas Reads!🎄🧡 Celeste Mohammed author of books Pleasantview (2022) and Ever Since We Small (2025) recommends Sweetness in the Skin, by Ishi Robinson 🍰
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Skip the hassle when you visit Paper Based Bookshop and Sleepy Cat Cafe at 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair, Port of Spain 🏡🎄
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During Nov 15 to Dec 15 2025, we will partner with The Shelter for Battered Women and Children for a special “Books that Build Hope” initiative. Customers can select and purchase a book from a specially curated list, and that book will be donated directly to The Shelter 🧡
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🔔Save the date! 'Not Another Christmas Market' returns on Sat 15 Nov! 🛍We're doing Christmas shopping our way with🎁unique gifts, crafts,📚books, food, drinks & live music to get you in the festive spirit!🎶 📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St.Clair 🆓FREE ENTRY #bocas2025
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Author Stacey-Ann Julien of Somebody’s Sleepy But Not Me dropped by! ⭐️ After a fun day on a tropical isle, little Zen learns that everything, even playtime, needs its rest. 🌙 A rhythmic Caribbean bedtime tale with a “Dream Big” poster, activity, & tips for caregivers
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🎃 A spooky read for restless imaginations… 📖 The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami – 🧾 $225 An algorithm predicts Sara will harm her husband, based on her dreams. Detained for “pre-crimes,” she confronts the eerie reach of tech & surveillance. 👻 Speculative fiction
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This month at #TheWritersCentre! 🎵John Hussain 🖼Vision Board Workshop 🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club 👪Family Reading Circle ☕Scarlett Ibis James 🗣Big Ideas: Int'l Creole Month 📚Sleepy Cat Book Club 🗣Lauren Francis-Sharma 📚BYOBB Social: National Calypso Month #bocas2025
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✨ Check out our Manager’s Pick! Bookshop Manager Simone Camps spotlights her September read: In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas 🇺🇸🇨🇦
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We'll be open until the event closes!
📣 Lauren Francis-Sharma is coming to The Writers Centre! Join us for readings from her novel, Casualties of Truth, and a conversation with writer @BreeMcIvor. 🗓️Tues 28 Oct 🕠5.30 pm 📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair 🆓 FREE; open to all #bocas2025 @groveatlantic @paperbasedbooks
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🏅 Congrats to Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe on receiving the Order of the Republic of T&T (ORTT) at the nation’s 49th Republic Day! 📚 We’re proud to carry five of his works. Shop his titles today at Paper Based Bookshop!
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✨🧡 Join us for Books & Brews with Scarlet Ibis James in conversation with Marsha Gomes-McKie, exploring love, legacy & longing. 📖 25 signed, limited-edition copies w/ exclusive artwork — event-only! 🗓️ Sat 25 Oct | 3–4.30PM 📍 The Writers Centre, St. Clair ✅ Free entry
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Find us at The Secret Garden Market 🧡📚 Event details: 📅 Sat 29 Nov 🕙 10am - 4pm 📍6 Collens Rd, Maraval 🎟️ FREE
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