Welcome to the web site and online store of Jamaican-born Canadian, award winning author Horane Smith.

Here you can purchase autographed copies of an author who has been described as "no ordinary novelist," and one who’s "prolific…entertaining, and growing from strength to strength."

Horane Smith is the first recipient of the BURLA Award for outstanding contribution to African-Canadian and Caribbean Literature. His 2006 novel Dawn at Lover's Leap was a finalist in the USA Booknews Bestbook Awards for Historical Fiction. Lover's Leap:Based on the Maiacan Legend, his first novel, is being used as one of two books looking at the question of Mixed/Fixed relations at the 10th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities and Social Sciences, sponsored by the International Journal of Social Sciences. Horane has also been recognized among the top one hundred outstanding Jamaicans by the Jamaican-Disapora Foundation Canada, for his contribuition to Jamaican literature.

Horane's internationally acclaimed novel Lover’s Leap: Based on the Jamaican Legend, has been described as "propelling…engaging, and hard to put down."

As well as Underground to Freedom, a gripping tale of the Underground Railroad when thousands of American slaves sought freedom in Canada, is his second novel.  Port Royal, an epic featuring the pirates and slave traders of the city once described as "the richest and wickedest on earth," is the third novel of historical fiction. His other novels are Seven Days in Jamaica, The Lynching Stream, Reggae Silver.

Horane Smith's artwork goes far beyond his books.  Enter our gallery area to view his paintings;  prints are also available for purchase.

Enjoy!