In words familiar to many English teachers, the English poet John Donne observed 400 years ago: “No man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.

Grief and personal crisis take Hamish to a remote island. There, he meets an elderly woman who is trapped with an unexploded landmine under her foot.

Perhaps, as John Donne posited, “no man is an island.” But Lourenço, a young Brazilian man stranded on Cape Cod, is giving it a good try. Abandoned by his lover, freezing out his mother and ...

‘Lino Briguglio: No man is an island’. Editor: Marie and Michael Briguglio. Publisher: Kite Group / 2024. Pages: 322 This book is a festschrift for Lino Briguglio on his 80 th ...