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Small Island is a two-part 2009 BBC One television drama adapted from the 2004 novel of the same title by Andrea Levy.The programme stars Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson as joint respective female protagonists Hortense Roberts and Queenie Bligh, two women who struggle to fulfil their personal ambitions and dreams amidst the chaos of World War II London and Jamaica.
Small Island is a novel written by British author Andrea Levy.. The novel, published in 2004, tells the story of post-war Caribbean migration through four narrators – Hortense and Gilbert, who migrate from Jamaica to London in 1948, and the English couple, Queenie and Bernard, in whose house in London Hortense and Gilbert find lodgings.
After surviving a plane crash, a FedEx systems analyst finds himself stranded on a desert island in the South Pacific. 2000 Awards: 1 Golden Globe, 15 other awards Swept Away: Guy Ritchie: Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood: Remake of the 1974 film of the same title. 2002 Survival Island: Stewart Raffill: Billy Zane, Kelly Brook, Juan ...
In an opinion poll organised for World Book Day in 2003, Notes from a Small Island was voted by BBC Radio 4 listeners as the book which best represented England. [1] The book was adapted for Carlton Television in 1998 and appeared as a six-part 30-minute documentary broadcast on ITV from 10 January to 14 February 1999. The book is also ...
The Incredible Tide tells the story of Conan, a boy who lives alone on a small island on Earth ravaged by World War III. The world was knocked off its axis and the continents have sunk into the ocean, with only small islets remaining. Conan is rescued but finds that the new society is very different from the world he knew before.
Small Island may refer to: . Small Island, a 2004 novel by Andrea Levy . Small Island, a 2009 British two-part television drama based on the novel; Small Island, a 2019 play by Helen Edmundson based on the novel
José Salvador Alvarenga (Spanish: [xoˈse salβaˈðoɾ alβaˈɾeŋɡa]; born c. 1975) is a Salvadoran fisherman and author who was found on January 30, 2014, aged 36 or 37, [nb 1] on the Marshall Islands after spending 14 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean beginning on November 17, 2012.
John (Jack) Renton (1848–1878), also known as The White Headhunter, [1] was a Scottish seaman from Orkney. In 1868, he was among four or five deserters from the American ship Renard , which specialised in the trade of guano .