A new set of steamy tales. A girl is brought into her eighteenth birthday by her older lover with abandon. A man gives himself up to blind love but what has he lost for it? A woman confuses the heat of love for romance. Slices of life. Sex life. Definitely a good read for both sexes.

Robert Edison Sandiford moved from Canada to his parentsi native Barbados in 1996. He went for iwife and worki o his new bride was a Bajan, and he had landed an editoris position at the leading daily newspaper. Yet his journey eBack Homei also led to a series of insightful and often poignant meditations on relationships, island life, and the decline of his father, diagnosed with Alzheimeris disease twelve years earlier. iComing out of the Caribbean as these stories did, they could not have been written in any other time or place, i says Sandiford in the Preface. Part travelogue, part memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle is a thoughtful, revealing, and often humorous trip to a most unexpected destination.

Praise for Sand for Snow

iThis unpretentious, charming book reminds us of the power of observationoand of reflectionoclearly articulated. i

oHalifax Sunday Herald, Dec. 2004

ioThe book for me changed almost immediately into the classical immigration story, where it takes an incredible leap of faith (and not lunacy) to leave the known for the unknown: the familiarity of the country of his birth and the support systems o albeit regardless of the fact that they have failed him o to Barbados] the country of his parents' birth, a country he knows only from visits and stories.i

oGroove, 2004

iRaised with a dual sensibility, Sandiford is able to see Barbadian society with unfamiliar, unglazed eyes, and report with frank yet discreet honesty its strengths and failings.i

oH. Nigel Thomas, Montreal Community Contact, 2004

iThis book...makes me wish that I'd been much closer to my father. It makes me wish that he'd always been there for me or that I could have been there for him....i

oRicky Jordan

iIn his new environment, Sandiford ponders what it means to be Bajan, and what it means to be Canadian, and how best to reconcile the two within himself.... What follows is part travelogue, part memoir, and an entertaining critique and celebration of island life and city life.i oMcGill News, Summer 2004iSandifordis strength lies in provocative profiles.... i oMontreal Gazette, 2004iMigration is one of the great themes of Caribbean writing.... But few narratives describe attempts by descendents of these 20th-century emigrants to return to the Caribbean of their parents. Sand for Snow is a thoughtful, modest, and quietly moving exploration of that reverse voyage. i oCaribbean Beat, Jul/Aug 2004

Three engrossing and salacious stories. In the title story, a traveler in a bar is accosted by a very horny young woman who bewitches him with unseen circumstances! Then, a photographer is asked by her best friends to tape them having sex-only to have the camera turned on her. Finally, as he lies dying, an old woman reflects on the passionate life she has led with her husband.

From a variety of female viewpoints, "Great Moves "by Robert Edison Sandiford and Geof Isherwood, tells the stories of Caribbean people in love and lust.

The thirteen stories in "The Tree of Youth" have a richly exotic, sensuous allure: the landscape shifts from cosmopolitan Canada to beautiful Barbados. They also explore, with understated brilliance, the elation and defeat men and women everywhere experience when they yearn for love and a better life. Here is an unblinking vision of the sexual exploits of Bajans, young and old, one that restores the redeeming values of children, family, and art.

Three erotic stories adapted to comics exploring black and multi racial relationships.

The disasters of 9/11 trigger a Cataclysm that is unleashed every so many cycles. It can only be averted by the selfless act of the Elect, a trio of exceptional humans who are guided by Milton, a being known as an Elder. The three, all Barbadians, are David Rayside, Marsha Durant and Franck Hurley. And it is their time: to save the world before the deadliest characters of their legends and myths-the baccou, the steel donkey, la djables, and the heart man-destroy it.... All their lives, the Elect have had their abilities: David, the power of flight; Marsha, incredible strength; and Franck, super speed. With great power may come great responsibility, yet the choice to act or not remains theirs. Milton, like his adversary, Mackie (short for Machiavelli), is an Elder who can inform, not influence, the course of events. Are the Elect mature enough to decide what's best for humanity? The longer they take to agree to Milton's plan, which he can't reveal until they are all on board, the more their world is overrun with Caribbean folklore creatures.... Set in Bridgetown and Montreal ('where much of the Diaspora live'), And Sometimes They Fly questions notions of the heroic. Where do heroes-a region's but also a culture's heroes-come from?