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Nothing to fall for

... a spy. And The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul is an enormously readable, chatty, sadly funny account of a return to the Caribbean, ending with a dignified and somehow calmly hilarious account of Frenchman's Cove, the holiday paradise for all right-minded ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 929 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A KISS BEFORE DYING: TREASURE DIVING HOLIDAYS

... at Andros Island, in the Bahamas, taking up residence in a derelict fortress rising out of the sea at the gateway of the Caribbean (nesting-ground for millions of tern which do not recognise their eggs but only the place that they are laid in funny if ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 962 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

As I was saying to Pompey..

... Tracy, is a wild, passionately irreverent and enormously un righteous (according to current In-Attitudes) career round the Caribbean with Henry Lamb, a darling young Candide who becomes involved in any amount of trouble through visiting the locale as the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

Good, clean fun in the Place Pigalle

... thinking, the poorest vaudeville stuff, and his incarcera tion in an iron cage and his escape on a raft all the way from the Caribbean to the Seine at Paris I found increasingly tedious. Admittedly, the music of Mile. Marguerite Monnet grows better and better ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 930 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

SHORT STORIES FROM MANHATTAN: Tales of Power and Penetration

... have had a dull moment. MY WAY LEADS ME SEAWARD (Allen and Unwin. 18s). is Frank Wightman's account of a voyage through the Caribbean and along the American coast. It is an admirable tale well told and well illustrated. The latest addition to the Macdonald ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 925 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A jack-of-all-trades tries fiction

... Visiting Jamaica, you'd be surprised to envis age a wee horror-island in its vicinity. This rather grey little dot in the Caribbean purports to be nothing more than a bird sanctuary (subsidized by a society in America) whose particular denizen is the Whooping ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1033 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

Sorta lackin' somep'n

... Wiseman) a megalomaniac with no hands who dreams of world domination (that old thing). The doctor lives under an island in the Caribbean in a vast sub terranean palace which (delicious joke) numbers the stolen Goya portrait of the Iron Duke among its art treasures ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1002 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

Mr. Kaye goes straight

... actress with a more fetching person ality than most of them, is charming as a mother-ridden English miss who, while on a Caribbean cruise, meets and falls in love with an American writer-student (Mr. John Cassavetes), excavating in the British Virgin Islands ...

Published: Wednesday 12 November 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1058 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

THREE TIMES ROUND THE BLOCK!

... The film, based on a book by Alec Waugh, deals with an assortment of problems involving colour, in a Crown Colony in the Caribbean. There is the problem of the respected planter's children who learn there was once a Jamaican in the family; the problem ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER

... of novels about her fictional friends with MY FRIEND SANDY (Macmillan. 16s.), the spirited account of a year's stay in a Caribbean island by her principal character Janet, with her amiable engineer husband, Alexander Alexander, known to his friends, not ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1229 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

THE WAR AT SEA

... greatest authority and exploited to the full. SEASON OF ADVENTURE (Michael Joseph. 21s.) is Mr. George Lamming's novel about a Caribbean island which has achieved the independence of a republican state and is going through the inevitable pangs of readjust ment ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1160 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review