Paper Based Bookshop

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

We have a new WhatsApp contact: (868) 305-4159 🧡 As always, you can reach us via 628-3197 or info@paperbasedbookshop.com

For orders beyond Trinidad & Tobago, please contact the store. ✏ @thewriterscentre illustration done by @DPluthero

💳 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.

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.

Happy New Year! 🧡🥂 Check out what you read in 2025!

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

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 🍰

Skip the hassle when you visit Paper Based Bookshop and Sleepy Cat Cafe at 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair, Port of Spain 🏡🎄

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 🧡

🔔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

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

🎃 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

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

✨ Check out our Manager’s Pick! Bookshop Manager Simone Camps spotlights her September read: In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas 🇺🇸🇨🇦

We'll be open until the event closes!

🏅 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!

✨🧡 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

Find us at The Secret Garden Market 🧡📚 Event details: 📅 Sat 29 Nov 🕙 10am - 4pm 📍6 Collens Rd, Maraval 🎟️ FREE