My new book has just been published!

Our regular readers will be familiar with Anthony Hall’s enlightening and entertaining weekly column in Caribbean Net News, and he has now provided us with his third annual retrospective compendium of insight and observations on the events of the previous year.

Mr Hall’s look back at 2007 — The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on World Events – Volume 3 — has just been published and for this year’s edition he includes updates to the specific events he writes about, which also serve to emphasise the often prescient nature of Mr Hall’s commentaries.

Of particular interest to our readers will be the regional perspective Mr Hall brings to much of his commentary. Topics of special Caribbean interest in 2007 include the mess Anna Nicole Smith left behind in The Bahamas; the Caribbean Community’s “fatally flawed” demand for reparations for slavery; and the continuing saga of violence and corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands, which later earned Mr Hall the distinction of being the object of a verbal attack by the Premier in that territory’s House of Assembly.

In reading Mr Hall’s wide ranging commentaries on the events of last year, the reader must be prepared for a range of reactions. The realisation that another year has gone by will dismay some; those whose grasp of world events is not so extensive as Mr Hall’s (surely the great majority) will be surprised at some of the news that passed them by unnoticed; many will be gratified at his relentless deflation of the pompous and self-righteous; and all should be pleased at his recognition of lesser-known but nevertheless praiseworthy individuals who might otherwise go unremarked.

Those who have read earlier iPINIONS volumes will know that, in addition to offering his unique insight into major issues of national and international importance, Mr Hall turns his attention to such other topics as movies, sports and health care. This year’s edition also includes a brief visit to Serbia.

Mr Hall tackles all of these topics and many more with his trademark confidence, flair and humour.

Highly recommended reading.

The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on World Events – Volume 3 is now available at all major online booksellers, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com.

* This book review was published today at Caribbean Net News, the most widely read newspaper in the Caribbean.