A unique little bookshop crammed full of all things Caribbean. 🕰️ Mon - Sat 10am–5pm. ✉️ DM Replies during shop hours. 🚚 Delivery available 📚
Trinidad and Tobago
Joined November 2012
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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 – at Trinidad and Tobago
We have a new WhatsApp contact: (868) 305-4159
🧡 As always, you can reach us via 628-3197 or [email protected]
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.
💳 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.
For orders beyond Trinidad & Tobago, please contact the store.
✏ @thewriterscentre illustration done by @DPluthero – at Trinidad and Tobago
Paper Based Bookshop retweeted
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 🧡
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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
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
Paper Based Bookshop retweeted
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!
📣 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
@groveatlantic @paperbasedbooks
🏅 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
