Tag: Bermuda books
“Healing History” Seminars Planned For June
Bermuda educator, poet and writer Melodye Micëre Van Putten’s new publication “Healing History; Reflections On Race and Forgiveness In Prose and Poetry” is the first selection of a new National Library book club. The inaugural meeting of the library book club will be held on Thursday, June 6 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and is free to the... Read more of this article
Call For Non-Fiction Book Submissions
The Department of Community & Cultural Affairs has put out a call for submissions for its upcoming “Bermuda Anthology of Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction” from authors who are Bermudian or Bermuda residents. Writers may submit more than one piece of previously unpublished work. And if their work is selected, writers must be available... Read more of this article
Video: Merlin’s Excellent Bermuda Adventure
The 1963 Walt Disney animated fantasy “Sword In The Stone” features perhaps the quirkiest plug for Bermuda’s tourism industry ever committed to celluloid — with the eccentric magician Merlin departing for a vacation on the island several hundred years before it was discovered. Adapted from the novel by T.H. White [1906-1964],... Read more of this article
New Children’s Book: “Happy’s Best Day Ever!”
Pete and Annesa Saunders have released a new children’s book called “Happy’s Best Day Ever!”, which is about a sea turtle with damaged flippers. The book’s description says, “Happy Henderson Hawksbill Black is a sea turtle who was hatched on the most beautiful beach in the Caribbean. Happy had a very rough start to... Read more of this article
Bermuda Poet Van Putten To Launch New Book
Bermuda educator, poet and writer Melodye Micëre Van Putten’s latest work, “Healing History: Reflections of Race and Forgiveness in Prose and Poetry” will be officially launched at the Bermuda National Library next Thursday [May 10]. Weaving narrative and verse in a scholarly and artistic exploration of historical events and contemporary... Read more of this article
Press Marks Anniversary With Bermuda Book
In May 1964, the University of Virginia Press released its first original publication, “A Voyage to Virginia in 1609, Two Narratives” by William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain, twin accounts of the “Sea Venture” wreck in Bermuda edited by the late Louis B. Wright, who at the time was director of the Folger Shakespeare Library... Read more of this article
“Bookathon” To Benefit Sunshine League
Peggy Burns will be hosting a Heritage Bookathon at the Sunshine League every Saturday in the month of May, from 10 am until 5 pm, with part proceeds going to children’s charity. She will be selling collectible books by Bermudian authors, many of which are out of print. This event is being held to promote interest in Bermuda’s heritage... Read more of this article
Clyde Roper’s Quest For The Giant Squid
One of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute’s most eminent international advisors, Dr. Clyde Roper has been called the Ahab of the squid world. Like the whale-obsessed captain of the “Pequod” in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel “Moby-Dick”, Dr. Roper’s pursuit of another legendary leviathan has taken him... Read more of this article
New Novel: “Tennis Player From Bermuda”
The heroine may be fictional but the settings, moods, fashions and excitement of both the island and the amateur Wimbledon championship as they were a half-century ago are all historically accurate in the new romantic tale “The Tennis Player From Bermuda.” The recently published novel “The Tennis Player From Bermuda” takes the... Read more of this article
Thompson: Fear & Loathing In Bermuda, ’60
The godfather of what he called “Gonzo journalism” — a rollicking, first-person narrative style which dispensed with traditional objectivity and, very often, with objective facts — Hunter S. Thompson [1937- 2005] remains best-known for his brace of lacerating ’70s comic memoirs, “Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas”... Read more of this article
