Anguilla on My Mind is a lush coffee-table book of more than 300 photos coupled with several essays amounting to 20,000 words which explore the Caribbean island of Anguilla, one of the trendiest holiday destinations in the world.

This website includes approximately 200 original photographs amassed over the past forty years, documenting both the natural beauty of Anguilla’s beachscape but also the island’s progression from a colonial afterthought to becoming one of the world’s most exclusive and beloved vacationing spots for A-listers with all sorts of backgrounds.

Additionally, the selection of texts provides an in-depth look at the defining traits that make Anguilla a territory unlike any other, from the extravagant nature of its revolution (1967–69) to the legacy of hurricane Irma, the biggest storm ever recorded in the Caribbean basin, the inescapable presence of Anguilla’s native goat or a detailed timeline of the island’s love affair with aviation.

Anguilla welcomes more than 100,000 guests yearly, with at least as many day-trippers visiting on top of that. For years holidaymakers have been craving for a souvenir to match the status and the reputation of the island as a luxury destination. Elegant artwork in an XL format with 300+ pages of high quality gloss paper delivers just that—and it will sell like hot bread on a Sunday morning.

The final product combines some of the material displayed on this page alongside additional up-to-date photographs of the island’s most emblematic spots, as well as seldom exposed locations. In this respect, the author’s lifelong affinity with Anguilla is key to securing access to places otherwise unavailable or unknown to outsiders.

Montague Kobbé has had ties to Anguilla his entire life, with both his parents travelling back and forth since the early 1980s and eventually making the island their home in 2000. Over the years he has published dozens of articles about Anguilla in both regional and international press, from the New York Times to Belmond’s in-house publication Mondes or Caribbean Beat, the in-flight magazine of the largest regional airline (Caibbean Airlines).

He is the author of the novels The Night of the Rambler, a book about revolution and human dignity, and On the Way Back, which tackles issues of racial and social prejudice with a dose of humour. Both novels are set in the Caribbean island of Anguilla. In 2016 he co-edited Crude Words: Contemporary Writing from Venezuela, a collection of thirty texts in English translation by thirty Venezuelan authors. He has also published the bilingual collection Tales of Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges, which features fifty pieces of flash fiction both in English and in Spanish.

Montague has ample experience selling books in Anguilla and he is convinced that the appetite for a photo book of the island is vast.