Paper Based Bookshop

A unique little bookshop crammed full of all things Caribbean.
🕰️ Mon - Sat 10am–5pm.
✉️ DM Replies during shop hours.
🚚 Delivery available 📚

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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: [phone]

🧡 As always, you can reach us via 628-3197 or [email protected]

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For orders beyond Trinidad & Tobago, please contact the store.

✏ @thewriterscentre illustration done by @DPluthero

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Meet our new website: https://t.co/N3ILI3k2zC. 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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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!

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📣 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
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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