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A LONG STAY IN THE WEST INDIES

... A LONG STAY IN THE WEST INDIES by ANGELA MILNE IF, like me, you have never been to the West Indies, Alec Waugh's new novel, Island in the Sun: (Cassell; 16s.), will leave a marked effect; you will find yourself picking out the West Indian news from the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1138 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

RUNNING A SPEAKEASY: Honor Tracy's new novel, set in the West Indies, is the first of this week's fiction

... RUNNING A SPEAKEASY Honor Tracy's new novel, set in the West Indies, is the first of this week's fiction Ebullient, vital, Rabelaisian, philosophic-- all these terms could be applied to that fabulous American character, Belle Livingstone, who brought ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1330 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

My Boy Chang

... BRIEF Body Below By Howard Mason. (Michael Joseph 10s. 6d.) A superior thriller concerned with marine insurance in the West Indies. Recommended. The Self-Betrayed By Joseph Wechs- berg. (Gollancz 12s. 6d.) A behind the Iron Curtain novel by a New Yorker ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 68 | Tags: Review 

ISLES TO WINDWARD

... , this volume is a chronicle shaped and coloured for our delight, of swallow flights from one island to another in the West Indies Cuba, Cura9ao, Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad leaving us with an eyeful of word- pictures in such brilliant ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

The tensions behind Caribbean literature-- and aspects of Jamaica

... the area is provided by Mr. G. R. Coulthard, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language and Literature in the University of the West Indies, in his book RACE AND COLOUR IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Race Relations. 25s ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 745 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

HEROIC HAIRDRESSER: Pierre Toussaint's Biography

... Before the American Revolution a vast trade was carried on between the North American colonies and the sugar colonies of the West Indies. Without it the latter could not have existed and the former would not have developed. Over the two the Imperial Parliament ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Books for the Kitchen

... parts of the world, it follows that almost every kind of cooking is represented including the Near East, the Far East, the West Indies, Australasia, Africa, Canada and, of course, the British Isles. Mrs. Howe, who has col lected and tried out most of the ...

Regional Reviews: A pointless exercise

... establish her independence. The second play is based upon the failed/ betrayed 1790 anti-colonialist revolu tion in the West Indies, but develops the theme of political treachery draw ing on a range of historical and literary events. Much of the above ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: 23 | Tags: review 

LUXURIOUS VOLUMES

... aspect of angling, and is as comprehensive and detailed as anyone would wish. The West Indies at Lord's by Alan Ross: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 15s. Summer Spectacular The West Indies v. England, 1963 by J. S. Barker: Collins. 15s. Frank Worrell by Ernest Eytle ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2497 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

FOR VARYING TASTES

... introduces the book with a chapter on his first, gives a summary of the M.C.C.'s win over the West Indies, and the series between Australia and the West Indies, and then deals in detail with the series of Tests which resulted in Australia retaining the ...

Regional Reviews: Macbeth

... shrouds, slowly emerge from pits of fire and smoke, voodoo-like and haunting. At times one senses the clever mix of cultures, West Indies, Indonesia and, most strongly, Kabuki, in all the movement. And with all the colour associated with these cultures, especially ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 27 | Tags: review 

Old & new sounds in London

... their individual roles. An exciting newcomer to London's recording studios is trumpeter Shake Keane, who came from the West Indies some 10 years ago. In My Condition (SEG8140) is an EP of imagination and surprise, the title piece seemingly derived from ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: 53 | Tags: Review