My perfect trio when it’s cold outside: a book, a cup of green tea and a hot-water bottle. I love reading and have a particular interest in books about Black history or novels set in in the past and present French Caribbean, my parents’ home. When I was 14, my father bought my first book, written by a novelist from Martinique, Joseph Zobel. It was ‘La Rue Cases Nègres’, a real revelation that made me want to know more about my ancestors’ history, my parents’ homeland, my roots, my Martinique. Below is a non-exhaustive list of books with story lines set in the French Caribbean that I truly enjoyed and suggest you to discover/re-discover. La Rue Cases Nègres, Moi Tituba,…