From stalwart little locomotives of topographic necessity to the maverick engines of one man's whimsy Britain's narrow-gauge steam trains run on tracks a world apart from its regimented mainlines In Small Island by Little Train eccentricity enthusiast Chris Arnot sets out to discover their stories Stories include miniature railway on the Kent coast used for Home Guard military trains during World War II & now the school commute for dozens of local school children The UK's only Alpine-style rack-&-pinion railway scaling one of Britain's highest mountains The five different gauges of railway circling one man's landscaped garden & the team building their own trains to run on it Far more than mere relics of the nation's industrial past or battered veterans of wartime Britain these are also stories of epic feats of preservation volunteerism tourism & local history They are an exploration of idiosyncrasy enthusiasm & eccentricity Or to put it another way a tale of Britishness ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play John Alexander&s (SENSE & SENSIBILITY) lavishly detailed two-part drama SMALL ISLAND perfectly captures the upheaval promise & disillusion on wartime immigration Adapted from the multiple prize-winning novel by Andrea Levy the period drama tells the story of Jamaican immigrants & Londoners involved in World War Two Naomie Harris David Oyelowo Ruth Wilson Benedict Cumberbatch & Ashley Walters star as the principle characters whose lives intersect at a time of global unrest ...

Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction as well as many other awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize & the Whitbread Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Naomie Harris its enduring appeal will captivate fans of Maya Angelou & Zadie Smith 'A great read honest skilful thoughtful & important'
- Guardian It is 1948 & England is recovering from a war But at 21 Nevern Street London the conflict has only just begun Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return or if he will come back at all What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie & knock at her door Gilbert's wife Hortense too had longed to leave Jamaica & start a better life in England But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby decrepit & far from the golden city of her dreams Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was
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The suicide of Joanne Limburg's beloved brother Julian left her shattered When her mother dies too Joanne pulls herself from the depths of grief by embarking on a journey of salvage collecting up those scattered fragments of memory from her childhood With love wit & wisdom she begins piecing together a bright mosaic of a brother that left her behind & of a family coloured by the conflicting influences of literature science & religion ...