Trinidad

The secret child: Love Forms, by Claire Adam, reviewed

21 June 2025 9:00 am

An anguished Trinidadian divorcée decides after 40 years to search for the daughter she was forced as a teenager to give up for adoption

Spreading the word

17 October 2020 9:00 am

Nineteen fifty-six: the Suez crisis, the first Tesco, Jim Laker takes 19 wickets in a match. But also: Trinidadian pianist…

Why has V.S. Naipaul rejected the Trinidad of his birth?

4 August 2018 9:00 am

Savi Naipaul Akal’s publishing house is named after the peepal tree, in whose shade Buddha is said to have achieved…