Posts tagged "Noel Coward"

James Bond was born in Jamaica. Not in a London boardroom or a Hollywood studio, but at a simple wooden desk inside a low-slung bungalow on the north coast of St. Mary Parish, where the trade winds blow through louvred windows and the Caribbean stretches out in every shade of blue the eye can process. Ian Fleming called the estate GoldenEye. Between 1952 and 1964, he sat at that desk every January and February and wrote all fourteen Bond novels. The world got a suave British spy. Jamaica got...