Bøker av Jean Goulbourne

Jamaican poet, Jean Goulbourne brings us poems of sorrow and gladness, day and night, valleys and mountains, birth and death, starvation and fullness. In spite of cultural differences, races and creeds, in this world of diversity, humanity remains the same. A New Day asks us to accept each other as human, regardless of all the above, and seek love rather than hate.

It's 1959 in Cross Keys, Jamaica, and Janelle is excited to go to Portsea and spend time with her cousins, Selena and Diana. But things are not all going well. At home her baby brother Mikey is showing worrying developmental delays, and her parents are arguing over the nativity play her dad wants to write. She's also struggling to find friends at school, and, worst of all, cousin Diana seems to have joined a cult. Janelle writes everything down in her diary in this touching and sweet historical story.

Janice, a teenager, shares a room with her mother in a tenement yard. Her mother, a caregiver with dreams of becoming a nurse, goes to work in an upper St. Andrew suburb. Janice is excited and happy to accompany her mother to live in new luxurious surroundings.She already attends a high school where she finds it difficult to adjust because her classmates are mostly from wealthy families, and she soon realizes that life is not a 'bed of roses', even in her new environment.Follow Janice's journey as she jumps over the hurdles in her path, stumbling but never falling...

Baker Street is the home of A Butter - yes, that is what everyone calls him - a destitute young man from the inner city, someone who is used to picking pockets and begging on the street. He suddenly has to take responsibility for his five children when the mother becomes gravely ill. Thrust into unfamiliar territory where he is the primary caregiver for his children, A Butter has to dig deep to find a way to live up to his responsibilities. A Butter becomes a good example for the youth of Baker Street, showing them that with hard work and ambition, they can make it in life no matter the circumstances.