Ian Randle Publishers has announced the imminent publication of Footprints in the Sand: The Jamaican Economic Policymaking Experience 2016-2024 by former Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke who recently took up the post as Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The publishers have set December 20 as the official publication date of the new book, which will be released in both hardcover and paperback editions.

The foreword is written by Christine LeGarde, president of the European Central Bank and former Managing Director of the IMF.

An official launch of the book will take place in the new year on a date to be announced.

Footprints in the Sand is one of three new books to be released this month by the celebrated Jamaican publishing house. 

Following close behind is the Rene Simoes-authored The Impossible Dream which details the 4-year campaign that led to the Reggae Boyz’ historic qualification for the FIFA World Cup finals in France in 1998. Also to be released are the memoirs of former West Indian wicketkeeper, Jackie Hendricks titled Stumped for a Title.

These new books follow the publication of the highly acclaimed biography of the late President of Guyana, Janet Jagan entitled Janet Jagan: Freedom Fighter of Guyana, published in 2024 and launched in Georgetown on October 20 on the anniversary of her birth. 

With the appearance of this book, Publisher Ian Randle claims his company created publishing history as having published Cheddi, the biography of Janet’s husband a year earlier, it is the first known occasion on which biographies of both husband and wife who have been Presidents of their country have been produced by the same publisher. Randle goes on to point out that in Janet Jagan, Guyana and the Caribbean has achieved what the US has never managed to do, which is to elect an American-born woman as the President of a country.