Bill Bryson

Bryson wrote Notes from a Small Island when American author Bill Bryson decided to move back to American author Bill Bryson's native United States, but wanted to take one final trip around Great Britain, which had been American author Bill Bryson's home for over twenty years.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author Bill Bryson worked for a time with the Bournemouth Echo newspaper and wrote about the town in Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1995 work Notes from a Small Island.

Andrea Levy (1956-2019)

Born in London, England to Jamaican parents, Andrea Levy (1956-2019) was the author of Small Island, winner of the Whitbread Award (now Costa Award), the Orange Prize for Fiction (now Women's Prize for Fiction), and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

and opinions Chris's expectations of Britain,

‘Notes from a Small Island’, written by Bill Bryson is a reflective travel journal comparing Bryon’s past views and opinions of Britain, Chris's expectations and thus the reality of what Chris discovers what to have become.

by Andrea Levy

Small Island is written by Andrea Levy, an English author with Jamaican Parents and won the Whitbread Novel Award and Orange Prize for Fiction (Best of the Best) in 2005.

while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Gertrude Bell as a seasoned author

Notes From a Small Island gained Gertrude Bell the initial attention, while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Gertrude Bell as a seasoned author.

while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Nancy Mitford as a seasoned author

Notes From a Small Island gained Nancy Mitford the initial attention, while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Nancy Mitford as a seasoned author.

while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Pierre Curie as a seasoned author

Notes From a Small Island gained Pierre Curie the initial attention, while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Pierre Curie as a seasoned author.

Durham

‘I unhesitatingly gave Durham Cathedral my vote for the best cathedral on planet Earth,’ Durham wrote in Durham's 1995 Notes from a Small Island, explaining how Durham stopped off on a whim, walked down the hill from the station and unexpectedly fell in love with Durham.

Leslie Thomas's most successful book

Leslie Thomas's most successful book, Notes From a Small Island, about Leslie Thomas revisiting the places Leslie Thomas went when backpacking around Britain in the 1970s, is a joy to read.

Fridtjof Nansen

the Fridtjof Nansen published geographical and ornithological notes about the island.

while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Jennifer Worth as a seasoned author

Notes From a Small Island gained Jennifer Worth the initial attention, while the award-winning and bestselling A Short History of Nearly Everything established Jennifer Worth as a seasoned author.

George Heriot

During four years there George Heriot made many notes and sketches of the life and landscape of the islands and composed a poem based on George Heriot's experiences.

Alexander Carmichael

The island is also referred to in the Notebook of Alexander Carmichael, which contains material collected between October 1867 and December 1885.

by John Myres

the island was written by John Myres, an Oxford academic and Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, an archeologist and supervisor of antiquities for the British authorities.

by Paula Milne

Small Island is written by Paula Milne (The Virgin Queen) and Sarah Williams (Becoming Jane, The Secret Life Of Mrs Beeton) and directed by John Alexander (Life On Mars, Survivors).

by Margaret Wise Brown

The watercolour illustrations, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1947, are absolutely beautiful, and the island ’s written by Margaret Wise Brown of ‘Goodnight Moon’ fame, so the text and story have that recognisable soothing, lyrical rhythm.

Libya Poseidonius

Accordingly, Libya Poseidonius abandoned the voyage to India and turned back; and on the voyage along the coast, Libya Poseidonius espied and made note of an island that was well-watered and well-wooded but uninhabited.

Lawrence Durrell

The founder of the School, Richard Pine, intended to inaugurate a study centre which would explore the work and preoccupations of the brothers Lawrence Durrell (1912-90) and Gerald Durrell (1925-95); Lawrence Durrell chose Corfu as the location for the School for two principal reasons (in addition to its natural beauty, the largely Venetian and British heritage(s) and its cosmopolitanism): firstly, because the Durrell brothers, with their mother and siblings, had lived in Corfu in the years 1935-39, and had written about the island: Lawrence Durrell in Prospero’s Cell (1945) and Gerald Durrell in the books which became known as the Corfu Trilogy: